LAGO News (ENG)

LAGO 5.10 is available now!

Dear customers,

As we all know the end of Adobe Flash Player is nearing the end as of December 31, 2020. In 2017, Adobe announced to discontinue Flash support, and there is no question this is urgently needed, because Flash has proven to be less and less an innovative standard and more of a security risk.

The alternative to Flash, HTML5 technology brings a more robust and safer security backbone. Comosoft has been working for months to transition all LAGO web-based applications from Flash to the HTML5 standard, and we are targeting a Flash-free LAGO version with the next release in December 2020. But until then, there is still some work to be done and Comosoft is working hard to transition some remaining LAGO applications still running on Flash while upgrading customers to newer LAGO versions.

With the release of LAGO 5.10, we already offer a large package of Flash free applications. For example, we have implemented some great new features in LAGO PIM to support your production workflows and give you the ability to generate reports at the project and project type level. We have also improved our powerful LAGO Whiteboard so that, for example, asset assignments can be created for higher-level elements and articles.

For enhanced security, LAGO Layout now supports single sign on and multi-factor authentication. Please review our latest Release Notes to learn about all the enhancements and improvements in LAGO 5.10.

Stay healthy and many greetings from the Comosoft team.

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Extension of HTML5 support and functionality in LAGO PIM
  LAGO PIM now provides additional “legacy” functionalities in HTML5. In addition to new shop functions and the display of search folders, it is now possible to create, edit, and delete articles and elements. LAGO Reports at the project and project type level are now available as well.
• New functionality in LAGO Whiteboard
  LAGO Whiteboard's Product Data mode now features the ability to create asset assignments (for articles and elements) as well as new elements for empty raster fields, providing more control without having to change the mode or app. Pickup View now offers increased flexibility through the use of drag & drop for entire pages. Whiteboard now displays previews and standard images in raster fields making it even more intuitive while optimizing workflows.
• Enhanced security through MFA
  LAGO Layout now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) via SAML.
• Optimization of LAGO DAM
  New features are now available, such as, the display of asset orders in the search view and the export of XLSX files from the asset light table's list view.
• Updating asset assignments via Photoshop/Bridge Info Panel
  In the past, the Photoshop/Bridge Info Panel supported asset assignments to articles and elements for assets that were not in the LAGO system yet. An improvement has been made and now asset assignments can be updated, extended, and deleted by changing the metadata then reimported thru asset hot folder or checkout/check-in action via the Photoshop plugin. .

by comosoft GmbH

Patchday Sprint 48 - 10.2020: 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 comosoft GmbH

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

Patchday Sprint 46 - 08.2020: 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 comosoft GmbH

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 45 - 07.2020: 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 5.8.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.7.1

by comosoft GmbH

Patchday Sprint 44 - 06.2020: 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 5.8.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.7.1

by comosoft GmbH

Patchday Sprint 43 - 05.2020: 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 5.8.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.7.1

by comosoft GmbH

LAGO 5.8 is available now!

Dear customers,

The world has been facing one of the greatest challenges in modern times. This pandemic has forced us to abandon many of our daily freedoms and activities we take for granted. The Comosoft global team is taking all precautions seriously in order to protect each other, and more importantly elderly members of our society, by maintaining all work-from-home and social distancing protocols. All team members are in constant communication with each other and with our customers every day. We are here to help you in every possible way.

As a result of these events, LAGO users were suddenly quarantined to their home offices forced to figure out how to keep their workflows moving. Most IT organizations were not immediately prepared to have their entire workforce complete their daily responsibilities from a home office environment on such short notice. Accessing mission critical systems remotely overnight proved to be a major challenge. There were firewall and security concerns that needed to defined and set up quickly to allow the flow of work to continue uninterrupted. These world events have changed the way IT departments have prepared their users to work from any location, anytime safe and secure.

Comosoft has always had built-in security protections, but we have refined and developed additional data protections to support remote workforce needs for the future. With LAGO 5.8, you will have the confidence and assurances that your data and content is 100% secure and restricted from any outside entity. Your teams can work in a secured LAGO environment safely from any location in the world. We have also implemented many other useful features in LAGO 5.8 and are happy to provide you a complete overview anytime. Please contact your account representative for immediate questions or demonstrations.

Comosoft’s number one priority is to stay connected and responsive to all of our customer and partner needs as we continue to adapt to these rapidly changing work environments.

Best regards and stay healthy

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• JAVA 11 support
  Starting with LAGO 5.8, the use of JAVA 11 is required for both clients and the LAGO Application Server.
• Export and Import Excel document
  LAGO 5.8 offers you a new and easy way to collaborate with external users for the processing of article and article property data without requiring these users to be logged into LAGO. Instead, they can work directly with an exported Excel document from LAGO Explorer.
  To support this use case, the existing option to export an article list to a file from LAGO Explorer has been expanded. Article and article property data can now be conveniently exported to Excel (.xlsx) with field headers. These headers will then be used to import and map data back in LAGO once the file has been updated by a user.
  The updated Excel file can then be placed in a LAGO import folder for direct import. In this method, the conversion into a CSV file that follows the structure for a LAGO standard import is not required.
• Security improvements
  LAGO 5.8 offers a variety of security improvements to help keep LAGO secure and up-to-date with current security requirements based on organizational audits, third-party customer audits, and OWASP best practices.
  With version LAGO 5.8, SSL (TLS 1.3) is fully supported and a prerequisite for the installation of LAGO.
  LAGO 5.8 also provides a configurable password rule that allows you to enforce minimum length, upper case letters, digits, and special characters for passwords. Only hashes generated with bcrypt/Blowfish are used to store login data in LAGO users.
  The use of proprietary keys has been removed and access to version information of the components used in the system is only possible after successful authentication.
  This upgrade requires migration and configuration efforts by Comosoft technicians. Please contact your Comosoft account representative prior to upgrading to LAGO 5.8.
• LAGO API enhancements
  The LAGO API has been enhanced with many new functions. A CRUD API is now available for projects, elements, articles, and prices. This means that you can create, change, retrieve, and delete the most important LAGO objects and their details using the LAGO API.
• LAGO PIM enhancements
  LAGO PIM (the HTML5 replacement for LAGO Plan & MerchPlanning) has been extended by a large number of functions. It is now possible to manage not only projects and variants but also documents and shops of a project. PDF archiving for projects can also be triggered and viewed. Overall, a large portion of the functions from LAGO Plan are now available in LAGO PIM.
• Suppress automatic creation of article property types via import
  Do you have problems managing the integrity of article property data? Imagine a scenario where you are configuring a new import routine, which is supposed to import article properties, as well as articles, and then a typo in the description of a property appears in the data file you send to LAGO. Previously, this always resulted in this property being created as a new property type since LAGO automatically creates the new property type and then assigns it to the corresponding article type. You can now suppress property type creation via import, as a configurable option. In addition, you can also configure whether a warning should appear in the import log. Contact us if you have any questions about the setup.
• Automatic creation of article references
  Do you need a large number of article references for cross-selling activities in your digital channels? Are many of these references based on fixed rules and attributes that you have already maintained for your articles? If so, you can now use them to generate article references automatically. To do this, you simply define one or more characteristics, which must have an identical value on two articles and a reference category. LAGO does the rest for you.
• Workgroup assignment to asset types
  Do you have asset types with sensitive data that should only be visible to a limited group of users? Or do you want to give external employees or service providers access to LAGO DAM, but with restricted viewing/editing options?
  With the option of assigning workgroups to asset types, we have created a smarter way to control access and editability to assets. Similar to the existing assignment of user groups to individual assets, this new option is done as a definition to the asset type.
  The assignment of workgroups to asset types is done in LAGO Admin. In LAGO 5.7, this was already in place for LAGO DAM. With LAGO 5.8, the evaluation takes place in all areas of LAGO where assets are used or displayed.
• Element layout enhancement
  The element layout configuration now allows you to define the creation of image components based on assets assigned to the element ONLY. Get creative and couple this feature (optional) with the existing Asset XML function of assigning assets to an element.

by comosoft GmbH

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