LAGO News (ENG)

LAGO 5.14 is available now!

Dear customers,

It’s hard to believe 3 months have passed so fast. Comosoft has used the time to add more useful functionalities to LAGO. With LAGO 5.14, we provided new innovations that support your workflows even better.

We have once again added impressive functions to LAGO Proof, LAGO PIM, LAGO DAM, LAGO Whiteboard, as well as the much appreciated LAGO Explorer, which will make your advertising material production even faster and, above all, more secure.

For example, you now have the option to set elements to Proof Complete in LAGO Proof. Checked elements receive a "check symbol" in the proof view and can be easily distinguished from "non-checked elements" by a colored marking.
With this feature you can perform your correction process even faster and do not run the risk of overlooking unfinished corrections.
This is just one of the new features coming with LAGO 5.14, so take the time to read our release notes and learn all about our new LAGO 5.14 release.

Of course, we look forward to welcoming you to our LAGO 5.14 release webinar. Here you will have the opportunity to address questions regarding the new features to us.

The invitation to the webinar will be sent to you shortly.

Greetings from Hamburg, stay healthy and see you at the Release 5.14 Webinar.

Best regards

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Enhancements to LAGO Proof
  LAGO Proof now offers a new way to verify documents via your correction/proofing workflow. This new feature set enables the selection of an element in Proof for the purpose of marking it as “checked” or “not checked” via a new button in the toolbar. A visual indicator is also made available in Proof so that a user can quickly see which elements have been checked or not. If a user attempts to “check” (approve) an element that has unresolved correction marks, a message dialog will communicate to the user that the element cannot be moved to the “checked” status due to unresolved correction marks. All visual indicators in Proof are toggled ON/OFF via a button in the toolbar. All new buttons are configurable in workspaces to tailor the UI to each user.Further additions to LAGO Proof include the ability to: 1. Copy correction marks to one or to multiple elements simultaneously.2. Create correction marks for multiple elements at the same time.3. Display correction mark details as tooltips on the proof canvas. 4. Easily move pages forward and backwards through the LAGO workflow via a new button in the toolbar. 5. Configure presets for correction marks. These presets include pre-defined texts for the correction name and description plus the ability to define whether a correction mark should be global, local, a document correction, or an element correction. 6. Automatically advance a document workflow step in the event that no open correction marks exist. Additionally, LAGO Explorer now offers two new document check runs that can verify whether a document contains open correction marks and whether all elements of that document have been marked as “checked”.
  Make sure to participate in our release webinar to see all the LAGO Proof enhancements in greater detail!
• New functions within Element Layouts
  The core functionality to automatically pre-populate or build InDesign documents within LAGO has been enhanced with two additional features.First, it is now possible to create assets with text captions via element layouts. This requires the text captions to be stored within an asset property and a component template that contains at least one empty image frame plus a frame for the text caption. To support this feature, it is possible to assign the following element layout configuration, “create and arrange for matching assets”, to layout objects.The second new feature enables users to create a component for multiple articles based on placement rule conditions. The placement rules can be based on the article, article property, price, or price property values. The option for evaluation is configurable and set in the element layout configuration. When placement rule conditions are found to be true, a component is created for each distinct article. An example use case for this feature would be an element that has 5 articles assigned and among those 5 articles, 2 different retail prices exist, resulting in two price tags needing to be placed on the document.
• New features in LAGO PIM, LAGO DAM and LAGO Whiteboard
  LAGO PIM has been enhanced with additional features, including the ability to edit prices or change the sorting of article to element assignments.LAGO DAM now supports the ability to define a threshold limit for the number of comma separated search entries for searching with a new entry in the central configuration. If the limit is exceeded, a message will be displayed, and the number of search results will be truncated to the defined maximum. Additionally, we support the ability to put search results directly into a shopping cart via a button.LAGO Whiteboard supports the assignment of “Grids” to working pages while working in Page layout mode.
• History for user account changes in LAGO Admin
  The LAGO history module has been enhanced to support the tracking of user account changes. This includes the user account itself, as well as the assignment of roles, changes to existing user roles, and assignments to workgroups. A new History view in LAGO Admin enables these user account changes to be seen.
• API enhancements
  The LAGO API now offers further data manipulation functionality, such as the asset assignment order of articles and elements, the possibility to logically delete an asset, as well as, assigning assets to articles using property tokens and values.
• LAGO Import enhancement
  In addition, the LAGO standard import can now import external keys for articles, elements, and prices, which enables identifying these objects using the API (version 3).

by comosoft GmbH

Patchday Sprint 57 – 06.2021: 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 5.12.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.11.1

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 56 – 05.2021: 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 5.12.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.11.1

by comosoft GmbH

Patchday Sprint 55 – 04.2021: 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 5.12.1

LAGO ENTERPRISE 5.11.1

by comosoft GmbH

LAGO 5.12 is available now!

Dear customers,

In the meantime 3 months have passed and Comosoft is pleased to release LAGO version 5.12 with many improvements and new functionalities/features.

With LAGO 5.12, the Flash-based applications have been completely removed and can no longer be activated via the central configuration. We have also implemented many new features in our LAGO Whiteboard module, which enables product and category managers to plan even more effectively and efficiently while having access to review the layout anytime.
These are just a few examples of a number of new enhancements, and we continue to focus on adding additional features in our PIM, DAM, Admin and Proof modules.

Please review our release notes to see what LAGO 5.12 has to offer and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

This is new in North America, but a really good idea…

We are starting a new global release webinar series that will include a preview of all new features. These webinars will be scheduled following the distribution of each newsletter going forward. Please be on the lookout for invitations to join our new release webinars in the coming days.

Best regards from Hamburg and stay healthy

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• General
  As of LAGO 5.12, all Flash-based applications are no longer available
  and have been completely removed. It is also no longer possible to
  activate them via workspaces or via central configuration.
• LAGO Whiteboard
  The "Apply Page Layout" function has been intelligently optimized
  and is now even more accurate in determining whether an element
  layout should be applied or not. In the past, only a check for the
  presence of components was performed. This has been extended to
  include additional checks that determine whether an element has
  been moved to a new raster field of a different size or page layout,
  and whether the raster field has been resized by a user.
  Additionally, it is now possible to automatically apply the page
  layout when closing a page (if necessary) due to user changes.
  The function for automatically selecting suitable element layouts
  based on raster field sizes has been extended to also allow for the
  use of element layout categories. This allows for a working method
  where multiple element layouts of different types are available for a
  given raster field size. When resizing the raster field, the system
  now compares which category the current element layout has and
  then assigns a matching element layout of the same category and
  size.
  Element layouts settings have been enhanced by allowing existing
  and placed assets to be used when reapplying an element layout via
  template setting. This setting prevents having user selections and
  additional assets from being placed when decisions have already
  been made regarding which asset to use from the previous selection
  process.
• PIM
  LAGO PIM has been enhanced with a variety of features:
  • Changes to the sorting of article asset assignments
  • Zoom function for the preview list of documents
  • Display of assigned elements of a document
  • Easier maintenance of proxy equivalence variants
  • Update logos of a project
• Proof
  It is now possible to change the names of correction mark
  types and to define default values for the "Title" and
  "Description" fields for each type.
• DAM
  In DAM, it is now possible to add all assets of the light table to
  the shopping cart without selecting the assets beforehand.
• Admin
  A function has been added to LAGO Scripting to check for the
  presence of a value in a menu.
  Additional functions are now available in LAGO Admin:
  • Configuration of transfer tasks
  • Configuration of translation imports
  • Configuration of structure definition imports
  • Configuration of offline document imports
  • Configuration of asset purchase order imports
  •Sorting the property type assignments for article
  properties
  •Configuration of uniqueness for articles

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 54 – 03.2021: 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

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 53 – 03.2021: 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

by Tim Witte

Patchday Sprint 52 – 02.2021: 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

by 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

LAGO 5.11 is available now!

Dear customers,

The holiday season is knocking at the door and 2020 is finally coming to an end. The entire Comosoft team wishes you and your families a happy and healthy new year.

The year 2020 has been more challenging than ever for all of us. As a result of the all-dominant global pandemic and the associated reorientations in the world of remote working, there were also new technical challenges to be mastered.

We have also been working hard to transition Adobe’s discontinuation of Flash applications as of December 31, 2020, that will no longer be supported by any operating system or browser as of January 1, 2021.

We are more than happy to announce LAGO 5.11 is available as a "Flash-free" version that is ready for production as of December 16, 2020. LAGO 5.11 replaces all former LAGO Flash-based applications with HTML5 technology and thus guarantees operation after December 31, 2020.

In addition, we have also expanded the range of functions in LAGO in 5.11! It is now possible to assign master pages to documents in LAGO Whiteboard;

and furthermore, we have integrated the LAGO apps “Merch Planning” and “Plan” into LAGO PIM.

These are just two examples of what's new in LAGO. To see the full range of new features in LAGO 5.11, please read the release notes below.

P.S.: We have a safe and secure solution through an Adobe partner that will extend LAGO Flash applications through May 31, 2021, until you are ready to upgrade to LAGO5.

As always, we are available to answer questions about LAGO 5.11 and look forward to your call.

We wish you relaxed holidays and a healthy start to the year 2021.

Greetings from Hamburg

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

• Whiteboard
  LAGO Whiteboard now offers the ability to assign master pages to documents without having to use LAGO Layout (InDesign). To support this feature, a new bridge group called “Master Pages" has been introduced in the Page Layout mode of LAGO Whiteboard. Master pages that have been defined in the document template are displayed there to enable assignment to document pages. This feature streamlines the planning workflow in the LAGO Whiteboard since the assignment of master pages was previously only possible using LAGO Layout (InDesign).Assigned assets displayed in raster fields can now be configured to a specific size format. This setting enables more assets to be displayed in larger raster fields and more configurability options in LAGO Whiteboard to determine how content is being displayed.
• PIM & Whiteboard
  In LAGO PIM, it is now possible to open one or more selected documents directly in LAGO Whiteboard with a single click by using a new button called "Add documents to layout view". This replaces functionality that was previously available in LAGO Plan.
• PIM
  LAGO PIM has been enhanced significantly and replaces the Flash applications “LAGO MerchpPlanning” and “LAGO Plan”. Here are some highlights:Users now have the ability to create, edit, and delete article search folders. With appropriate permissions, article search folders can also be deemed as “public” search folders making them available to all users.If article types are assigned to workgroups, LAGO PIM now takes this setup into account offering the ability to control the visibility and editing rights of articles of the specified article type.

  Article editing is now complete in LAGO PIM. Articles, as well as Prices and Properties, can be created, edited, and deleted.

  Text components of Elements can now be edited in a separate browser window within LAGO PIM. Pressing a new button called "Edit component text in text editor" will open up the editor in a secondary browser window. The editor includes a placeholder tree that can be switched On and Off, switchable placeholder highlights, LAGO table insertion, and much more.

  The visibility of LAGO PIM buttons and Article fields can now be configured through Workspace configuration in LAGO Admin.

• Admin Extend
  Import/Export Administration (including Task definition) has been moved from the LAGO Transfer app to LAGO Admin Extend.Standard export has also been moved to LAGO Admin Extend. The Export wizard guides you through all necessary settings in five steps.Article Type editing, is now offered in LAGO Admin Extend. This includes creating, editing, or deleting Article Types (and their associated fields), as well as Article Properties, Prices and Price Properties.

  Project Variant Type configuration is now available in LAGO Admin Extend under Products & Projects -> Project Variants. From here, Variant fields and settings can be created, edited, or deleted.

  A new button called "Recalculate FPOs and previews" has been added to LAGO Admin Extend. This button becomes active when an Asset Type is selected. Once pressed, users can choose between the options "Recalculate FPOs", "Recalculate Previews" or "Recalculate FPOs and Previews". The corresponding jobs are generated and are processed by LAGO Pict. This feature is useful when the asset type definition has been modified.

by comosoft GmbH