Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 51 – 01.2021: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.11.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.10.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 47 - 09.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.9.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.8.1

by Tim Witte

LAGO 5.9 is available now!

Dear customers,

Who would have ever thought the entire world could have so many dramatic changes in the way our businesses have had to adjust in five short months. Changes in the way we communicate with internal and external partners continue to move at warp speed and with higher and higher expectations on results.

While tools for video conferencing have been a common practice for years, it never replaced the importance of seeing people face-to-face in person. This unprecedented pandemic has forced us to adapt ways to collaborate keep our businesses moving forward.

Of course, the topic of our working from any location in the world has presented new challenges for remote workforces to connect to organizations networks, and systems like LAGO must be rock solid protected against any security breach.

At Comosoft, we have addressed critical security improvements in our latest LAGO 5.9 release to ensure your teams can work safely and confidently in any environment. For this reason, LAGO 5.9, which was released today, contains several new security improvements for your IT departments to ensure protection. In addition, our new LAGO API can be deactivated by configuration and SQL statements can also be blocked via the LAGO RemoteDB.

Read more in the LAGO 5.9 Release Notes, and if you have any further questions, we will of course be happy to help you.

Let LAGO 5.9 surprise you and stay healthy.

Greetings from the Comosoft Team

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Expansion of the "Element Information" Palette in LAGO Layout
  The LAGO Layout palette "Element information" has been enhanced to support all element user fields and element properties via configuration. Up until now, this palette was hardcoded to only display the element fields "Info" and "Description".
• Security Improvements
  LAGO 5.9, offers a variety of new security improvements:
  • The LAGO API can be configured to block unauthorized access to LAGO data.
  • LAGO RemoteDB now allows you to block SQL statements that were not issued by LAGO Layout. Please note that activating this option is likely to have a negative impact on performance, since each statement must be hashed accordingly.
  • A rate limiting option is available to limit the maximum number of parallel logins for a user.
  Please note that some of these improvements require configuration changes in Central Configuration and within configuration files on the LAGO Application Server. Please contact your Comosoft account representative for more details.
• Document Compression Enhancement
  Document compression has been enhanced with the option of defining which fields lead to the creation of head variants in the cases of data differences. Until now, it was only possible to define whether compression data differences resulted in the creation of head variants or content variants at a global document compression level. LAGO Admin, now provides an additional checkbox at the data field definition level, so in cases where specific price fields are never just black text, you have a more granular way to control what should generate head variants versus what should generate a content variant.
• Performance improvement for copying document templates
  The process copying of document templates in LAGO Layout no longer takes place locally on the user's workstation. The copy process has been moved to LAGO WebServices. This results in better performance in scenarios where higher latencies is a variable (for example, when working over a VPN connection).
• Enhancements in LAGO PIM
  The range of functions in LAGO PIM have been expanded. It is now possible to create shop structures, including the definition of shop rules and the ability to link shops to shops for data synchronization purposes. Furthermore, documents can be paginated and the article list (including properties) can be exported.

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 42 - 04.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.7.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 41 - 04.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.7.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 40 - 03.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.7.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 39 - 02.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.6.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 38 - 01.2020: New LAGO Versions available!

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.6.1

by Tim Witte

LAGO 5.6 is available now!

Dear customers,
Dear LAGO users,

In the past months, we have concentrated strongly on necessary updates for LAGO, some of them visible like what we have done in the HTML5 Whiteboard and HTML5 Proof, while others required work “under the hood".

Many of these achievements and results are now available in the new LAGO 5.6 release while others will be available in the coming months.

Performance improvements, new synchronization methods, support for macOS Catalina, improvements to the HTML5 Proof and Whiteboard are all available in this version.
In the coming months, we will announce support for Adobe Creative Cloud 2020 and Java 11+.Stay tuned…

We look forward to your feedback on the new version 5.6.1.

We hope you enjoy using the new features and greetings from Hamburg.

Michael Siek
Head of Research & Development

• LAGO Explorer, "New" synchronization method
  A new synchronization method between LAGO projects now allows elements and their associated articles and text components to be synchronized between the source and target projects. A new button has been added to the Explorer for this purpose. If this button is pressed, a dialog appears in which the project, the target variant and the presettings configured in Central Configurations can be selected. This new method makes it easier to keep documents in synchronization, even if the documents have already been synchronized.
• Lago Layout, Automatically update logos
  A new feature in the element layout editing dialog allows you to automatically update logos on pages. For this purpose, the checkbox "Update logos when opening a page" must be set in the Logos area of a selected component template in the Logo category. Further information about this can be found in our LAGO Webhelp documentations.
• LAGO performance enhancements
  Significant performance improvements were achieved through extensive revisions. This applies to both the Web Apps and the LAGO InDesign Plugin.

by Tim Witte

LAGO 5.5 is available now!

Dear customers,
Dear LAGO users,

Autumn is just around the corner as summer 2019 comes to an end.
With the beginning of the colorful season, life begins to pulsate again and pick up speed. This does not mean that Comosoft has "dangled its legs" during the summer. Quite the opposite! We have been hard at work this past summer developing many new features and functionalities for you, especially in the area of "Proofing" and "Whiteboard". Additionally, we have implemented even more interesting innovations, allowing you to design the production of advertising material even more efficiently. With LAGO 5.5.1, you can easily compare correction documents and certified documents, or simply highlight and cross out text (just to name a few). Just ask us and we will be happy to explain the new possibilities that LAGO 5.5.1 offers you.

Many greetings from Hamburg,

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• LAGO Proof in PDF quality without Acrobat license costs
  LAGO Proof uses PDF documents to meet the highest quality standards for slim documents. Texts remain perfectly legible even when zooming in and out. This makes (the support of) Adobe Acrobat in LAGO obsolete and the original license costs associated with it unnecessary for our customers.
• New correction tools in LAGO Proof
  LAGO offers two long missing text correction tools. Both text highlighting and text strikethrough are now possible. Both correction tools, like all other marks, can be labeled and provided with instructions.
• LAGO Proof with Correction Marks in Element Context
  LAGO offers the possibility to link correction marks with a single element within a document. The correction marks are only visible in the variants in which the element exists, i.e. only in the correct context.
  The correction marks change position depending on where the element is moved to. If the element is deleted, the linked correction marks are also removed.
• Document comparison in LAGO Proof
  In LAGO Proof it is possible to compare correction documents of different variants or certified documents with the help of a slider. This allows differences between variants or between the workflow status of a document to be visualized.
  All the user has to do is select two correction or certificates documents and click the "Compare" button. The documents are displayed one above the other in a comparison view. A slider below the documents allows you to show and hide the documents step by step in real time. A "Flip" button allows the first or second document to be faded in completely to allow a quick comparison between the states.
• Subcategories for placement rules
  In LAGO Admin Extend it is possible to create subcategories for placement rules. This enables manual intervention in an otherwise fully automatic placement process.
  For example, you can manually adjust the size or color of price tags placed using the rules of an element layout. The edited price tags remain available for rule-based exchange processes.
• Rule-based selection of element layouts in page layouts
  The page layout functionality has been enhanced to allow automatic selection and application of element layouts based on the evaluation of predefined rules. This functionality was implemented at the request of our customers at the last US user conference.
• LAGO API
  Following the recent US User Conference, Comosoft conducted a survey among our customers to develop the LAGO API in the optimal order for our customers so that the API could be deployed as early as possible. This and a customer project resulted in the requirement to be the first to make the API available in the Assets area. Assets can be searched, modified and loaded via their properties as well as via their use in the article context.
• Terminology
  In order to consolidate LAGO terminology and make it easier to understand, some terms have been adapted.Modules -> Applications
  User interface configuration -> Workspace

by Tim Witte