LAGO News (ENG)

LAGO 4.15 is available now!

Dear LAGO users,

With the evenings becoming colder, and the sun's warmth becoming noticeably less, Fall, the most colorful and colorful season, already has one foot in the door.

People take this season in very different ways. Many see the beginning of Fall as the end of the summer and the coming of winter. A season characterized by strongly changing weather, storms, rain and falling leaves. However other people enjoy the Fall in all its colorful appearance.

We at Comosoft belong to the second group of people. We appreciate the many fruits that ripen in Fall, enjoy the bright autumnal flowers and brightly colored forests.

These autumnal scenarios fit to the Comosoft Fall Release of LAGO 4.15 from our 4 Seasons release cycle. In addition to the obligatory functional improvements, this Fall release again offers a series of great new features: .

• LAGO 4.15 supports the Adobe InDesign and Photoshop CC2017.
• The extension of the LAGO FS allows you to check and restore the integrity of the database more easily.
• Element layouts are even more dynamic, e.g. when picking up over picture components.
• Deleted assets can now be easily re-activated via the Hotfolder import.
• We have been working on the performance of the Proof module and now cache the correction documents.

Enjoy the fall and coming seasons and wait with suspense for the X-Mas release, as the last release of the 4-Seasons cycle in 2017.

Of course, we are at your disposal, as always, with advice and help and will be happy to introduce you to the new features.

Autumn greetings from Hamburg,
Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

Highlights

CC2017 Support
LAGO 4.15.1 supports the latest CC2017 versions of Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.

Shop hierarchy import
The standard import has been enhanced to allow shop hierarchies together with shop user fields to be imported into specific projects.

Rulebased Catchword-Assignments
The assignment of catchwords is no longer a manual process and can be performed automatically based upon user defined rules.

Enhanced visibility of changes
A new "Annotations" function allows for components modified during document open to be marked within the document.

Text editor
The editor for text components can now be accessed directly from the Layout module.

Various element layout enhancements
A number of enhancements have been made in the Element layout including the ability to automatically copy the used component templates from one template to another when copying element layouts.

Enhanced hotfolder import
LAGO now offers the ability to logically deleted assets or reactivate logically deleted assets via a hotfolder import.

Performance improvements in Proof module
To improve performance correction documents will no longer be loaded from the LAGO FS every time they are opened unless the file has been updated in the meantime.

Article reference enhancements
The article references functionality has been enhanced to allow references to be created globally across all projects, across all variants of a project or just within a single variant of a project. Additionally, it is now possible to import references as part of the standard import.

LAGO FS enhancement
The integrity check within the LAGO FS has been enhanced to allow it to automatically clean up database records for files which are missing in the LAGO FS instead of just marking them as missing.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.15.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday No.9 2017: 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 4.14.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.13.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.12.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday No.8 2017: 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 4.14.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.13.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.12.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday No.7 2017: 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 4.14.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.13.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.12.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday No.6 2017: 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.

by Tim Witte

LAGO 4.14 available now!

Dear Customers,

Finally, spring has arrived and nature is showing itself at its most beautiful and colorful. At Comosoft, of course, we used the dreary time of winter to prepare LAGO for spring with a large colorful bouquet of new functionalities and improvements. The goal is to continue to enable you to work efficiently and sustainably in your production.

Of course, we have also taken into account current events and have done a lot in the area of IT and system security. Just think of the world's biggest hacker attack, "Wanna Cry", which affected over 200,000 systems into 150 countries. With the LAGO 4.14 version we have done a lot to close as many doors as possible to the destructive potential of malicious software.

Some of the highlights of our new developments are listed below, as you can see in our release notes. Of course, our customer service team is at your disposal for any questions you may have.

We wish you pleasure in discovering and trying out our new features and are at your disposal should you require any help or further information.

Best Wishes,
Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

Important Notice:

As the update from LAGO 4.13 to LAGO 4.14 requires several new servlets together with a significant change in the configuration files needed for the existing servlets we recommend all customers to contact comosoft support for assistance prior to upgrading.

Highlights

JAVA 1.8 compliance
With the release of LAGO 4.14.1, LAGO is fully compliant with the JAVA 1.8 code structure and therefore requires the installation of JAVA 8 for both client and server based applications.

Import of Article references
The creation of article to article links for existing articles within LAGO is now possible via the standard import.

Quality of correction documents & previews
LAGO now offers the ability to use inbuilt InDesign functionality to provide more granular control over the quality of JPG files for correction documents and document previews.

Article assigned asset usage in component templates
LAGO now offers the ability to use the assigned assets from the selected article automatically when placing a component template which contains one or more asset frames.

Correction documents in Proof (HTML5) from Explorer
The functionality to open a correction document in the LAGO Proof module directly from LAGO Explorer is now available on systems using the HTML5 version of the Proof module.

Extended XMP support
The support of XMP Metadata for assets has been extended to include the "Rights Usage Terms".

Merged table cells
The automatic merging of table cells with the same content within object tables is now available in the LAGO Plugin for Adobe InDesign.

Asset Synchronization
An automatic export of asset data when defined changes are made to an asset is now available and can be used to synchronize the asset information from one LAGO system to another LAGO system or with an external MAM system.

Security - Backbone/Link
A range of new security features have been introduced in LAGO 4.14.1. The database connection information has been removed from the properties files served by the LagoConfigServer, authentication of users is now performed via a new service LAGO Link and not directly against the database. It is also possible to restrict access to files such as asset previews or asset orders in the LAGO FS file server to authorized users only.

Enhancements to Proof module
A range of enhancements have been made to the HTML5 Proof module including the introduction of a hand tool for navigation within a document, the ability to printout multiple documents together with their correction lists, printing of certified documents from the Proof view as well as a streamlining of the Bridge within the module.

User management
Possibility in Admin Extend to lock and unlock user accounts.

Automatic creation of entity references
In addition to the automatic import of article references, it is also possible to automatically create/update references of a specific category for existing entities using predefined values which exist as attributes on both entities. This can either be manually triggered for a selected project or run automatically at timed intervals.

Status based export in Element workflow
The element workflow now offer the ability to trigger a data export when the workflow status of an element is changed.

Coming Soon - InDesign CC2017
We are currently working on providing a LAGO Plugin for Adobe InDesign CC2017 and plan to release this in the very near future.

QuarkXPress 8.5
QuarkXPress 8.5 is no longer officially supported by LAGO and we are unable to provide XTensions for this version. QuarkXPress 9.5 remains supported.

Internet Explorer 11
With LAGO 4.15 we no longer provide support for the Internet Explorer 11 version on Windows, support for the Microsoft Edge browser will replace this.

LAGO ENTERPRISE 4.14.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday No.5 2017: 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.

by Tim Witte

Patchday No.4 2017: 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.

by Tim Witte

Changes to Patchdays

Dear Customers,

Following the introduction of SCRUM to our development processes it is necessary for us to adapt the Patchday process to synchronize this with the development processes.
In future the Patchday releases will no longer be scheduled for the third Monday of the month but will be made available on the Wednesday following the end of the development sprint.
As the current sprint is scheduled to end on April 28th, this means that the next Patchday will be on May 3rd, 2017 and not as previously communicated on April 18th.
We apologize for any inconvenience this change may cause.

by Tim Witte

March Patchday: 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.

by Tim Witte