Page Comparison

AdServer Gateway

Task

We implemented significant improvements to the AdServer Gateway to enhance its performance and reliability. These updates include enabling tracking of Booking Calendar Service and Creative Management Service activities in Gateway Usage Reporting for better monitoring. We also evaluated and optimized data model query methods for Salesforce integration. Additionally, we prepared the Gateway for the Salesforce Winter 25 release, ensuring seamless compatibility,

Improvement

We updated the SF OAuth URL to use MyDomain for improved security and reliability

Integration / EQUATIVE

Changes and optimizations

We resolved the Equativ Check Availability issue by fixing the date format bug and enhancing error handling

Check Availability / Submit to AdServer

Improvement

We enhanced the Check Availability and Submit to AdServer functionality by improving Xandr error handling for invalid targeting IDs and enabling the use of custom AdServer pricing when configured, ensuring smoother and more accurate operations.

Check Login / Authentication

Changes and optimizations

We optimized the Check Login and Authentication process by implementing better error handling when field permissions are missing

Creative Upload

Changes and optimizations

We optimized the Creative Upload feature to address issues where external storage files were not returned in the correct order We and improved the Creative Upload integration with Xandr by addressing a data formatting issue where the status boolean was incorrectly converted to a string without quotation marks

Improvement

Additionally, we introduced a new capability to support the import of creatives templates, when using external storage. This required manual adjustment in the past.

Delivery Data

Changes and optimizations

We resolved an issue in the Delivery Data module where the Site-based Delivery Report was incorrectly displaying zero deliveries

Email-Notification

Changes and optimizations

We implemented a new task in the Email Notification module to monitor the email service, enhancing it’s stability.

We addressed the issues with email functionality in sandbox environments.

Integration / FreeWheel

New Feature

We introduced new features in the FreeWheel integration to enhance functionality and flexibility:

• Programmatic Guaranteed Support for Freewheel: We’ve enhanced our booking capabilities for Freewheel to support Programmatic Guaranteed Deals directly from ADvendio! Use ADvendios inventory management and planning capabilities to set up new PG Deals for Freewheel in a few clicks and book them directly, without going through manual transfers and setups.

• Yield Optimization Options: Enhanced campaign item booking to support advanced yield optimization for Freewheel, making your Campaigns even more precise. 4.20.1.10 Freewheel Yield Optimization in Campaign Builder

• Multiple Buyer Targeting Logic: Added support for complex multi-buyer targeting scenarios in Programmatic Direct, you can now target multiple buyers at once. 4.20.1.12 Account Targeting for FreeWheel in Campaign Builder

These features bring significant improvements in automation, targeting capabilities, and optimization for FreeWheel users.

Integration / Adswizz

Improvement

We made important improvements to the Adswizz integration to enhance its performance and reliability:

• Improved Submit to AdServer: Our Adswizz Integration now allows more flexibility in changing the advertiser account in ADvendio, while still being able to update related Orders and Items in Adswizz.

• Delivery Report Enhancements: Addressed missing responses from the Adswizz API, improving the accuracy and reliability of delivery reporting.

Changes and optimizations

We introduced changes and optimizations to improve the Adswizz integration:

• Resolved issues where Delivery Reports were not functioning in version 2.169.

• Fixed problems related to Region and Geo Targeting Criteria not being properly applied in submissions to Adswizz

Integration / Criteo

New Feature

We’re excited to announce a new partnership between the ADvendio and the Criteo

Integration / Google AdManager

Improvement

We updated the Google AdManager integration to leverage the latest API version (v202405)

Changes and optimizations

We made several improvements and fixes to the Google AdManager (GAM) integration to address key issues and enhance functionality:

• Submit to AdServer Enhancements: Resolved bugs preventing the modification of dates for paused items. We addressed issues with the Slot Size validation, where slots were flagged as invalid

• Inventory Import Optimization: Fixed issues with inventory imports appearing in the wrong order and resolved failed record uploads to streamline data synchronization.

• Error Handling Improvements: Addressed a NullPointer error related to Freeform key values.

• Proposal Submission Fixes: Resolved bugs in submitting proposals to the AdServer.

• Unique Name Validation: Fixed an error during campaign submission caused by duplicated campaign names.

• Update Status Feature: Enhanced our error handling to show clear messages, when status updates failed.

• We improved the Check Availability feature by sanitizing Gateway responses with Contending Ads data, and resolving KeyValue error messages in Google AdManager (GAM) to ensure smoother and more reliable operations.

Integration / Xandr

Improvement

Xandr Integration: Enhanced Capabilities

• Postal Code Targeting Support: We improved the Xandr integration to support Postal Code Targeting, ensuring compatibility with both Submit to AdServer and Check Availability features.

• Error Handling for Advertiser Changes: Enhanced error handling for Submit to AdServer, addressing scenarios where advertisers are changed in ADvendio, reducing submission errors.

• Deal Creation Improvements: Enhanced Programmatic Guaranteed (PG) deal creation to support multiple campaign items with individual deals, improving the flexibility and efficiency of deal management alongside availability checks.

• Advertiser Legal Entity Name Handling: Improved Submit to AdServer and Submit Buying Order processes by ensuring accurate Legal Entity Name assignment when pushing new advertisers to Xandr.

• Xandr Programmatic Guaranteed Deals: We extended our PG capabilities for Xandr to now fully support Availability Checks

• We enhanced the Underspend Catch-up functionality by enabling the 'Evenly' option on Guaranteed Augmented Line Items.

Changes and optimizations

We have made several fixes:

Native Creatives File Upload: We addressed issues with the Native Creatives file upload

Guaranteed Augmented Blocking Warnings: Optimized processes to resolve blocking warnings related to Guaranteed Augmented items

vCPM and CPCv handling: Enhanced our Submit to AdServer, to prevent errors when updating existing Campaign Items

Deprecation

Deprecation

As announced in our deprecation list, we’ve deprecated our connections features around the legacy key & value targeting. This will mainly impact our Google AdManager Integration.

Lightning Experience

Improvement

Experience a new and improved configuration of your Third Party Connections with our new Lightning Page for the Connection Setup. 7.3.1 Create a Connection with a Third Party System (e.g. AdServer, DSP, SSP)

Submit to AdServer / Check Availability / Ad Type

Improvement

We moved Ad Type settings directly into Campaign Item Fields to simplify workflows and enhance compatibility across Integrations, Submit to AdServer, and Check Availability processes. This will improve greatly the flexibility you have in ADvendio to set up Campaign Items for individual bookings, compare to your preconfiguration on product level. 4.2.5.6 How to overwrite Item Type and Goal settings from your Ad Type on Campaign Items(Ad Type, Goal Type, Goal Percent / Quantity)

Lightning Experience

Improvement

Experience a new and improved configuration of your Third Party Connections with our new Lightning Page for the Connection Setup. 7.3.1 Create a Connection with a Third Party System (e.g. AdServer, DSP, SSP)

Submit to AdServer / Check Availability / Ad Type

Improvement

We moved Ad Type settings directly into Campaign Item Fields to simplify workflows and enhance compatibility across Integrations, Submit to AdServer, and Check Availability processes. This will improve greatly the flexibility you have in ADvendio to set up Campaign Items for individual bookings, compare to your preconfiguration on product level. 4.2.5.6 How to overwrite Item Type and Goal settings from your Ad Type on Campaign Items(Ad Type, Goal Type, Goal Percent / Quantity)

Pre-Invoice generation

Improvement

During the development of the Delta pre-invoice generation we have cleaned up and enhanced the basic (legacy) pre-invoice generation. It has impact on following functionalities:

• Delivery data button on the invoice object can be removed, because we enhanced this into the preinvoice generation and this is done automatically with the pre-invoice generation

  • The same applies for the Timesheet activities functionality where the delivered hours are automatically rolled up to the Invoice items

• Cleaned up VAT and DST calculation rollups

• Enhanced validation for rounding and rest adjustments

• Ensured correct quantity rounding and handling of unlimited budgets

• Ensured correct application of absolute surcharges and discounts in combination with unlimited budgets

• Ensured that the next period is taken into account during Invoice and Invoice Item Cancelation and will leave the accounting period empty when there is no accounting period open during Invoice and Invoice Item Cancelation

We created two new Field on the campaign item which can help you further during the reporting:

• Campaign item billing status changes

  • The Billing Status invoiced will consider also pre-invoices which are not created (yet)

  • The Billing Status invoiced will compare the campaign item invoiced amount with the campaign item amount

  • The Billing Status canceled will now also be set when all invoice items are canceled but the campaign item isn’t ⚠️

  • The Billing Status canceled will only be set if all related cancelation invoice items are invoiced

  • The Billing Status canceled will no longer be one of the possible results of a campaign item cancelation with the Optimizer UI, Optimizer API ⚠️

  • The Billing Status partially created will no longer exist

• Campaign item invoiced amount

During the pre-invoice generation, the result email will contain the filter information to give you more details on the results.

Accounting records

New Feature

We have released the lightening version of the accounting record simulation on the Invoice Item. We have disabled all the processes which should not be run on the Invoice item.

Improvement

We have enhanced accounting record generation feature by enabling the possibility to run it only for set time period. This decreases processing time and increases the performance.

• Field name “Run Accounting records for last X months only ”

• API Name: AccountingRecordBatchConditionMonths__c

Whenever you add the the value in this field, it means that the campaign items which has ended more than months set will not be picked up by accounting record generation.

Taxes (GST, HST, VAT)

Improvement

We have created the New fields for VAT type 3 and Type 4. We are planning to patch the actual VAT functionalities later after the release is out

Deprecation

Deprecation

With the version 2.173 we have deprecated:

• Create Pre Invoice Records (old) from Media Campaign Object

• Old Pre-invoice wizard (visualforce page)

• the Old Invoice Wizard (visualforce page)

• Send an email classic

• the Cancel invoice (old) Detail Page Button

• the Cancellation wizard (visualforce page)

Invoicing Wizard

Improvement

With this version we allow users to run several Billing runs to run at the same time if they are run for different legal entities

New Invoicing wizard in Lightening

New Feature

We have released the new Lightening version of the Invoice Wizard. At the same time we have enhanced the functionality:

• User can change the dispatch type of every preinvoice. We have created a new field on the Invoice object t store the changed value of the dispatch type.

  • Object: Invoice

  • Field Label: Invoice Dispatch Type (Manual)

• If only one Legal entity exist on the Org, we will preselect it while loading the new wizard

• Ask your admin to set a maximum count of Preinvoices to be loaded in the Invoicing wizard, this will boost the performance of the billing run

  • Administration Setting name: Number of invoices in the Invoice Wizard

• New “Invoice all” functionality, were you can invoice unlimited amount of preinvoices based on your filters

• Now for the new lightning version, we have checkbox fields shown as a picklist and preselected with blank

Merge PDF in Lightening

New Features

We have released the lightening version of the Merge PDF functionality on the Billing run. The new feature has following enhancements:

• In the PDF table users can select PDFs which require merging

• Invoice PDFs with all dispatch types can be merged

New Invoice item related list

New Feature

We have introduced new Invoice item related list on the Invoice object. It is not only helpful for all the Delta Users, but might also be use for Basic pre-invoice generation users. Please ask your admin to review the feature settings

Delta Invoicing

Delta Beta III

We are happy to announce that Delta Beta Version III is out for you to join our forces in testing and making this a key success feature. This version included:

• Supports Campaign cancelation

• Supports Invoice and Invoice item cancelation

• Fixes on the Packages

Media Buying

Changes and optimizations

We addressed and resolved several issues in the Media Buying module:

• We fixed the issue where a method would crash when no value was set.

• We resolved the problem causing the UI to crash when changing tabs.

• We fixed the issue where input fields would trigger a freeze on the Buying Orders creation page.

Task

We enhanced the Media Buying capabilities to deliver a more efficient and flexible experience for managing buying orders and items:

Flexible Editing Options: We introduced functionality to allow users to rename orders and items, even if they were prefilled, enabling better customization and clarity.

New Component Development: We developed a new component for the Buying Item Related List, improving usability and accessibility for managing related buying data.

Enhanced Campaign Item Functionality: we improved the deletion management of campaign items and refined the behavior of related Buying Orders and Buying Items to maintain consistency and reliability.

Improved Linking Capabilities: We enhanced the feature to enable users to link existing Buying Orders to their corresponding Buying Campaign Items, simplifying order management.

Connection Field Enhancements: We improved the Connection Field Update process, ensuring accurate and seamless integration with connected systems.

Buying Configuration UI / Media Buying

Improvement

We made significant updates to the Buying Configuration:

Introduced functionality to prevent the record type from changing.

Implemented checks for the buying configuration for new order creation.

Integration / Xandr

Improvement

Reporting Labels: You can now assign reporting labels to Buying Orders and Buying Items for more streamlined tracking and analysis.

Unlimited Budget Option: Our integration now supports the Unlimited Budget setting, offering greater flexibility in campaign planning.

Pacing Options: Easily set Pacing Options for Buying Orders and define Pacing Percentages for Buying Items, giving you more control over your campaign pacing.

Frequency Capping: We’ve added support for setting Frequency Capping, allowing users to define Frequency Capping specifically at the Buying Item level.

Inventory Type Selection: Users can now select an Inventory Type in the Supply Strategy section of Buying Orders using a dedicated dropdown menu. The menu offers three options: App & Web, Web Only, and App Only.

Integration / Google Display & Video 360

New Feature

Audience Segments Targeting: You can now enable Targeting Audience Segments within DV360, offering more precise control over your campaigns.

Improved Campaign Handling: Define Buying Campaigns directly in ADvendio and submit them seamlessly within Buying Orders.

Enhanced UI for Targeting: Updated the Targeting Component interface for a smoother experience with Audience Segments in DV360.

API Updates: Migrated to Bid Manager API v3 and updated the Buying AdStatus API from v2 to v3 for improved compatibility and performance.

Advanced Targeting Enhancements: Introduced support for exclusions in Inventory Types and added the "Congressional District" option for geo-targeting.

Integration / Linkedin

New Feature

We implemented a refreshed user experience for LinkedIn Token handling to grant OAuth access.

Integration / The TradeDesk

Improvement

We’ve successfully migrated the API from the Solimar platform to Kokai, ensuring improved performance, scalability, and compatibility with future updates and we improved the messaging when updating a Buying Order.

Integration / Pinterest

Changes and optimizations

Resolved an issue in the OAuth Token Generation for Pinterest.

Integration / Facebook

Improvement

We updated the Marketing API of our Facebook Integration to Version 19

Integration / Google Ads

Improvement

We’ve updated our system to support API version 17, ensuring compatibility with the latest features and improvements.

Issue Type

Components

Description

Changes and optimizations

Booking Calendar LWC

Fixed an issue where the Booking Calendar displayed the Incorrect Media Campaign in the Medias Campaign filter.

Changes and optimizations

Campaign Builder, Net calculator

We fixed two things for our Net Calculator features in the Campaign Builder:

• Target Net applied wrong values not resulting in correct ecpm/ecpc amounts

• when changing a result from the Target Net or Budget Calculation manually then a warning will be added informing about the removal of the target value.

Improvement

Lightning Experience, Connections Layout

We fixed an issue in our new Connections Lightning layout that caused some installations to fail: https://advendio.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SO/pages/1007157284/Known+Issues+limits#Installation-Errors-in-2.173-due-to-Connections-Lightning-Page

Changes and optimizations

Accounting Records

Reverted changes on handling Of Accounting Records Creation For Cancelation Campaign Items from version 2.171.14

Deprecation

PDFs

As part of the deprecation of the Send An E-Mail feature for PDFs the remaining code for the Template Selector page, which was previously used to select E-Mail templates has also been removed

Improvement

Optimizer, Pre-invoice generation

Fixed an issue where the delivery data does not get updated automatically with Optimizing Version Activation

Issue Type

Components

Description

Changes and optimizations

Accounting records

Fixed an issue where Collection Debit Accounting records were not created for cancellation Campaign Items.

Changes and optimizations

Campaign Builder

We fixed a few issues in our Campaign Builder:

• it was not possible to save publication dates since it was throwing the error “Insert failed. First exception on row 0; first error: INVALID_FIELD, Cannot specify both an external ID reference ADvendio__PublicationDate__r and a salesforce id, ADvendio__PublicationDate__c: []“

• We applied a fix to an issue where the Campaign Builder was not correctly loading picklist values from other objects than the Campaign Item in read only mode.

• We improved the handling of the Publication Date selection with Inventory Forecast and Contents.

• We fixed issues where Contents could not be removed from the targeting component and targeting sets/targeting groups were behaving inconsistently with each other

Changes and optimizations

Delivery Data

We fixed a problem with our delivery reports feature. The imported metrics were doubled, if the same Ad ID was used across multiple Campaign Item Records, this problem was more prone to happen, if you were using scheduled delivery reports and a high number of active Campaign Items (4.000+)

Improvement

Campaign Builder, Publication Dates

We improved the response time of our Publication Date selection in the Campaign Builder that is based on the newer Inventory Forecast mode. Response times were reduced and we implemented convenience features to preload longer timeframes and open the calendar at the right month.

Changes and optimizations

Inventory Setup assistant

Fixed an issue where an error was thrown during the creation of new placements and other components.

Changes and optimizations

Invoice PDF, Landscape PDF, Optimization PDF, Quote PDF,

Fixed an issue where Landscape Invoice and Quote PDF Item Tables added an extra cell to the total line.