ADvendio Preview Version 2.169 - Winter 2023

CAMPAIGNS

Booking Calendar LWC

New Feature

We have introduced major upgrades to our Booking Calendar Lightning feature, including a new setup wizard. Please check Booking Calendar wizard video.

In addition, we have added Content filters based on custom Content fields as well as a mixed Content mode which allows you to view inventory with and without content in the same booking calendar view.

Improvements

We have added a "Media Search" button to the Booking Calendar, streamlining the process for cross-media clients to create and manage Media Campaigns with ease.

Changes and optimisations

Resolved an issue with Media Campaign stage translations in Booking Calendar Lightning.

Campaign Builder

New Features

We have added new features and improvements to the Campaign Builder:

1. We are excited to announce the launch of the Setup Wizard for the Campaign Builder. This user interface allows administrators to customize which tabs and fields are displayed, as well as to set specific rules for certain fields. Please check Campaign Builder wizard video.

2. We made improvements to the logic, which now hides irrelevant fields in the Campaign Builder when Rate Steps don't apply.

3. We have included Ad Hoc packages for Campaign Builder.

We have added new features to the Availability Checks when the Inventory forecast is enabled for your convenience, now you are able to:

1. See the available and unavailable Contents in the Campaign Builder (if applicable).

2. See the available and unavailable Contents in the Campaign Item Related List (if applicable).

3. Take over applicable publication dates into basket items when availability was requested in the media search.

4. Take over applicable publication dates into basket items when availability was requested in self service.

Performance improvements

Improvements

We prioritize the performance of our Campaign Builder and have been actively seeking ways to improve its loading time.

Improvements

We have made the following improvements for Campaign Builder:

• We have added Targeting to the Copy Value action.

• Enhanced Copy Value action by adding calendar ranges including publication dates and from/until dates.

• We fixed our automatic calculation of Frequency and Requested Content in Campaign Builder.

• We added open budget information to the campaign summary. This will give you a better overview of how much budget is still open to be spent for the relevant client.

• We adjusted the sales price for individual packages to be writable now in the Campaign Builder.

• We included the sticky columns for our static columns in Campaign Builder, they will stay as fixed when scrolling horizontally.

• We improved the UI of Campaign Builder by enhancing spaces and adding some separators.

• We have enabled the configuration for the availability mode of the Publication Date selection in the Campaign Builder.

  • You can now adjust the relevant columns shown for the Contending items.

• We have implement messaging for Campaign Builder validations and error messages.

• We have included messaging features that provide Campaign Builder with validations and error messages.

  • It can notify you if there is an issue with your date selection.

• We added a filter to hide inactive contacts in the Contact Wizard.

KeyValue Lightning UI Improvement

We added multiple enhancements to our KeyValue Lightning UI:

1. We now support audience segment presets selection.

2. We have implemented support for selecting CMS Keys and Values within the Key Value UI in Campaign Builder, allowing users to seamlessly incorporate these Key Value types for Google AdManager items and enhance their targeting capabilities.

3. We have added support of connection ID ad price assignments to hide specific connection IDs or types per product, enhancing the Campaign Builder Targeting UI by providing more focused and streamlined targeting options.

4. We have implemented operator logic enhancements in the new KeyValue Targeting UI for Xandr, including support for additional operators as well as the ability for administrators to configure default operators between groups for improved Key Value Targeting management.

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed the following issues for Campaign Builder:

• Budget calculations of Individual Packages

• The problem was that the Campaign Builder Check Availability process returned incorrect results in the first run.

• The issue where the Campaign Builder failed with multiple Contents per item.

• The error when after copying an item in the Campaign builder prevented proper editing of certain value changes.

• A currency error in Campaign builder check availability requests.

• The issue where duplicated values where shown in Campaign Builder picklist fields.

• An error after editing tabs or labels in the targeting page of the Campaign Builder.

• The issue where it was not possible to save in the Campaign Builder without publication dates field in the setup.

• The error in the Copy/Split item action in the Campaign Builder for related lists.

• Incorrect Discount Calculation on Packages for Campaign Builder.

• Picklist Fields Cut in Campaign Builder.

• A few Tab Rules Bugs/Style issues in Campaign Builder.

• The issue when entered sales price appears wrong in the sales price field.

• Copy Item: Values were not copied for some fields.

• An issue with Copy Value issues for Individual and linear packages.

• Enabled Split item action in Campaign Builder for all related lists.

• The issue in Runtime for Split Items in Campaign Builder

• Fixed Copy value action when copying values to multiple items.

• An UI issue with static columns and using the copy value action.

• An UI issue in Campaign Builder where picklist fields were cut.

• The issue where invoice items where copied during the copy action in the Campaign Builder.

• An error in the Campaign Builder which happened when trying to delete optional package components.

• An issue in the Campaign Builder where packages were not correctly loaded with preselected dates.

• Latency issue in Campaign Builder for check availability Impressions imported from AdServer.

• The issue where the validity of Targeting Sets was not checked for Targeting Sets without assigned Connection.

Campaign Item Custom Related List

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the following issues for the Campaign Item Custom Related List:

1. A bug with the check availability feature started from the Campaign Item related list to include package items in the availability check when nothing was selected before.

2. An issue where the Campaign Item Related List did not display the defined table fields, such as Ad Price for package components as expected.

Check Availability Media Configuration

Improvements

Check Availability

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved the following issues in Check Availability:

1. A problem where Contending Ads displayed incorrect headings, with Line Item ID and Contending impressions data appearing in the wrong columns during Google Ad Manager forecasting in Check Availability.

2. We fixed the error that the page was frozen after pressing “Save and Back” while checking the availability.

3. We corrected an issue where the Broadsign availability check displayed incorrect results.

Commitments Media Search

Changes and optimisations

We resolved a problem in Media Search where the "Rebate In Kind Condition" and "Content Information" were not immediately visible in the Media Basket when adding a matching Ad Spec.

Creative Upload

New Feature

In this release, we have implemented our first beta version to allow clients to upload creatives to our external AWS storage to be able to work with larger files and better file storage handling.

Improvements

We have enhanced the automatic selection of Sub Targeting in Creative creation, ensuring that it is preselected based on the Creative Targeting from the Campaign Item, streamlining the creative creation process for users.

Dynamic Pricing and Price Rules

Improvement, Changes and optimisations

We provided the following improvements for Dynamic Pricing and Price Rules:

1. We enhanced Price Rules to be applied in a better way to multi-select picklists.

2. We fixed the issue about reset Price Rule % not being applied when competing with absolute Price Rules.

Enhanced Delivery Data

Improvements

We improved UI for Enhanced Delivery Data Import on demand.

Key Values Media Configuration

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the following issues about Key Values:

1. The error message when using inherited Key Values/Audience segments in Media configuration

2. Removed Salesforce limitation which causes an error when using Key Values / Audience Segments in Media Configuration

3. An issue where values were being removed from the key values section after clicking save

Lightning Flow

Improvements

We added a content availability screen to the check availability flow component that users can add their flow.

Media Configuration

Changes and optimisations

We have addressed the following Media Configuration issues:

1. A problem where the Lightning Key Value selection in Media Configuration did not include the major functionality of selecting free key values, as originally intended, ensuring it aligns with client promises and expectations.

2. We have resolved the issue where package components' From/Until dates were not updating correctly after selecting a quantity, ensuring that changes made to the Until date are now accurately reflected in the components, even when a quantity is specified.

Media Search

Changes and optimisations

We fixed issues in the Media Search availability check process with many items.

Optimizer Media Configuration

Changes and optimisations

We resolved the issue where the Frequency calculation from the runtime of the new Campaign Item was not saved.

Security issues

Improvements

We have addressed the following Security issues:

1. We have enhanced the internal security scanner by analyzing missing PMD security rules and assessing their impact on existing code before incorporating them into the ruleset used during Pull Requests for ADvendio releases.

2. We have implementing Salesforce OAuth flow authentication for the Invoice PDF e-mail service with versioning to avoid affecting older ADvendio versions.

Submit to AdServer

Improvements

We added handling for the information message when ADvendio creates a new advertiser/agency/buyer in an external system after the submit process.

Update Rates Manager

Improvements

We fixed the issue in "Create & Updates Rates" where users couldn't open it due to a collection size limit error set at a maximum size of 1,000.

Targeting Sets

Improvement, Changes and optimisations

We have done following improvements and Changes on Targeting Sets:

• Contents has been added to the summary of Targeting Sets.

• We enhanced the Targeting Sets search by including contents in the description field.

• We have fixed an error when opening Sub targeting on Targeting Sets.

Programmatic Generic CSV Import

Changes and optimisations

We fixed a system error to upload file via CSV file uploader.

Self Service of Sales Assistant

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the following issues with Self Service component:

• The issue where Self Service components did not take over the exclusive checkbox while creating a campaign item.

• A problem with price rule application based on certain custom matching criteria in the Self Service.

• A bug in Self service where Check Availability returned an error when the filters were changed in the result list.

Deprecations

Improvements, Changes and optimisations

We have deprecated our code related to Adtech connections and AGOF Connect.

MEDIA BUYING

Media Buying New Flow

New features and Improvements

We introduced a series of optimisations to the Buying Order creation process:

In this new flow, we have refined the roll-up process for revenue schedules in order to be able to link multiple Buying Orders to a single Campaign item and ensure accurate updates for different Buying Orders and Campaign items.

To simplify the workflow, we've relocated the Buying Order Related List from Media Campaign to Campaign Item, enabling users to create Buying Orders directly from the Campaign Item record. Additionally, we have deprecated the 'Add Buying Order' button from the Quick Action list on the Media Campaign level, restoring the logic to create Buying Orders from the Campaign Item record.

Managing Buying Orders is now more convenient with the updated Campaign Items Related List, allowing the users to effortlessly create and view the Buyin Orders associated with Campaign Items.

Targeting Component

Improvements

• We enhanced our Xandr Media Buying capabilities by introducing support for Geo, Country, Region, City, DMARegion as Targeting options.

• The Google DV360 integration is now supported in the Targeting Component. In particular, it will be possible to set a targeting for the following categories: Devices, Inventory, and Geo.

Buying Configuration

Improvements

We introduced an improvement in the creation of new Buying Configurations: the Active button is now automatically checked by default when a record type is created for the first time. This will help to ensure that the configuration is saved without accidentally missing the step of making it active.

Delivery Report Center

Improvements

We introduced the possibility of scheduling the status synchronization for various media buying platforms, including the "Update Ad Status" option for Lifetime, Monthly, and Daily buying reports in the Delivery Report Center.

Submit Component

Improvements

We introduced a few improvements to the UI of the Buying Order Submit Component: now the information is shown in a clearer way, offering the possibility of expanding or collapsing longer messages.

Fiscal Year solution

Fiscal Year solution

New Features

We have enhanced our Fiscal Year Solution by the following features:

1. Importing the Delivery Reports based on custom fiscal periods for Buying Delivery Reports, Base feature and Monthly and Sitebased Delivery Reports, Enhanced Delivery Reports

2. Enabled invoicing based on delivery data.

3. To reflect all Timesheet Activities for Campaign Items in the corresponding Revenue Schedules. A calculation is based on the Gregorian Calendar month.

4. Implemented custom fiscal calendar-based revenue schedule calculations for linearly distributed campaigns, ensuring correct days and proper site-based delivery data assignment.

5. Accounting Records are generated based on custom Fiscal Periods.

FINANCE

Pre-Invoice generation

New Feature

We have created a Preinvoice Generation LWC (lightweight) button.

Budget Billing category

Improvements

We have enhanced the code for you to be able to create accounting records for new Budget billing category.

Invoice item cancelation

Improvements

We have made the following improvements for Invoice item cancelation:

1. Fixed a permission check issue related to the invoice items cancellation, ensuring that users with insufficient permissions will receive an appropriate error message.

2. Implemented a workaround to ensure that, when cancelling invoices or invoice items from closed periods, the credit note will take the next available open accounting period instead of showing an error.

Billing Run Invoicing

Improvement, Changes and optimisations

We have performed the improvement and optimisation for Billing Run Invoicing:

1. We described in detail for our customers how to call billing run on the PreInvoice object.

2. We fixed an issue in the Invoice Wizard (Lightning) that caused errors for non-Admin users with the AdvendioSuperUser Permission Set assigned by granting them the necessary Class access.

Invoice PDF, Landscape PDF and Quote PDF

Improvements, Changes and optimisations

We made the following Improvements and Changes for PDF purposes in ADvendio:

1. We have implemented to display Total Calculations for Landscape PDFs, including gross amounts, discounts per type, amount after discounts, taxes, and the total gross amount of the quote/invoice, even when the Ad Hoc package component details are hidden.

2. We have implemented a change involving adding fields on the landscape PDF, which allow users to show or hide campaign start and end dates and invoice item start and end dates for taxation purposes.

Campaign Builder Commitments

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed the following financial related issue for the the Campaign Builder

1. The problem where Copy feature was not working correctly for Rebate in Kind.

2. Addressed the issue where the Commitment logic wasn't recognising deleted content in the Campaign Builder.

3. We have fixed the problem where the "Don't apply Commitment Conditions" checkbox was not working for the Campaign Builder.

4. We have fixed the issue with Rebate in Kind Validation when applying other Commitments in the Campaign Builder.

Merge All cancelation type Publisher Payout

Changes and optimisations

We have addressed an issue where after canceling and recreating a Campaign Item in the Campaign Builder, the Publisher Payout process failed to generate prorated records for Publisher Payout Connection IDs Assignments.

Optimizer

Changes and optimisations

We have addressed the problem in Optimizing Changes where it was incorrectly displaying GMT date and time instead of local date and time (AEST), and have now ensured that timezone settings are correctly displayed.

Optimizing version activation

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved the problem in which Optimizer Activation triggered the ProcessCompleteEvent twice when future calls were enabled, and it now functions correctly by creating a single ProcessCompleteEvent as expected.

Taxes (GST, HST, VAT)

Changes and optimisations

We have addressed the issue where Credit Notes created from the Optimizer didn't show VAT and ensured that VAT is now correctly displayed on Credit Notes.

CONNECTIONS

AdServer Gateway Media Integration API

New Feature

The new Media Integration API feature allows customers to use custom integration logic instead of our standard ADvendio Integrations for our prebuild integrations like Google Ad Manager and Xandr.

Gateway Microservice Architecture

New Feature

We have implemented an automated deployment process for new microservices in GMS.

Buying Update Status (import)

New Feature

We introduced a new feature that allows the user to retrieve the updated status of a buying item after it has been submitted to a third-party platform. This feature is compatible with the following Media Buying integrations: Facebook, Xandr, Google Campaign Manager 360, Google DV360, Pinterest, and The Trade Desk.

Multiple Buying Items in Buying Orders

New Feature

We have implemented an enhancement to associate errors or warnings with specific Buying Items when submitting multiple items in a Buying Order, preventing issues from affecting all items collectively.

Media Integration API

New Feature

We have implemented the feature to add support for the Buying Ad Status Pull job in Hybrid integrations.

Media Buying AdServer Gateway Email Notification

Improvements

We made an improvement to notify Customers when ADvendio creates new advertisers, agencies, or buyers in an external system during the Gateway Submit process. A new info message is shown in the Email Notification.

Check Availability Media Configuration

Improvements

We have made Getaway Adjustments to ensure that the automatic "Check Availability" email correctly displays available impressions and incorporates a new column with information about previously delivered impressions for Campaign Items that are already running.

Delivery Data

Improvements

We have updated the delivery report process by splitting ad data into batches to improve performance for legacy implementations across various AdServers: Adswizz, Freewheel, and Equativ (ex-Smart).

Media Integration API

Improvements

We have enhanced the Media Buying Data model to support more generic integrations and made modifications to the GMS Buying Submit Service and Media Integration API.

Creative Upload

Changes and optimisations

We improved our Creative Upload for Google Ad Manager to prevent API errors during the update of creatives.

Integrations

Amazon DSP Pilot Integration

New Feature

With ADvendio Release 2.169, we introduce our newest Media Buying Integration: Amazon DSP.

Our new integration allows you to automatically receive reporting data from your Amazon Advertising Campaigns into ADvendio, to track your budget spend as well as use this in our invoicing module. The Amazon Integration is currently in a pilot stage with some limitations, if you are interested in trying the new features, please reach out to our product team, so we can arrange the next steps.

Google Ads Integration

New Feature

With the ADvendio Release of the 2.169 version, we are supporting the integration of Google Ads.

Google Ads is Google's online advertising platform that lets you create and manage ads to target potential customers interested in your offerings. It's a tool for promoting your business, selling products, building awareness, and driving website traffic. You have full control over your ad campaign, including budget, settings, and content. There is no minimum spending requirement, and you can assess your ad's performance with ease.

TikTok Integration

New Feature

We have introduced TikTok as a Light integration into ADvendio to enhance Media Buying campaign planning. Our focus was on a lightweight integration approach that makes it easy for customers to connect to TikTok, configure buying orders, set up flights, and access data reports conveniently.

Adswizz Integration

New Feature

ADvendio has upgraded its Check Availability feature for Adswizz, now supporting Audience Segments targeting and migrating to Adswizz Forecast API v2.

Adswizz and Xandr Integrations

Improvements

We have improved the batch handling process for writing back to Salesforce in Buying Delivery Reports, optimizing memory consumption and exploring multi-threading options to enhance performance during Bulk Job execution for Adswizz and Xandr Integrations.

Adswizz Integration

Improvements

The improvements made for Adswizz include:

1. Enhancing the batch-handling process for writing back to Salesforce in the context of Delivery Reports

2. Addressing an issue where an infinite loop occurred during the booking of Media Campaigns and Campaign Items with a ZoneId that was inactivated on Adswizz.

DV360 Buying Delivery Data

Improvements

We have addressed an issue in the DV360 report service, resolving an error that occurred when requesting data from more than two years in the past.

Google Ad Manager Creative Upload

Improvements

We have made improvements where ADvendio allows to set an individual runtime for Creatives, when uploaded to Google Ad Manager.

Google Ad Manager Integration

Improvements

We have made following improvements for Google Ad Manger (GAM):

1. Updated Google Ad Manger API to version v202308.

2. We have fixed the 'NullPointer (a value is missing)' error message occurring in Google Ad Manager.

Freewheel Integration

Improvements

We have updated FreeWheel API to version 6.58.

Facebook Integration

Improvements

We have updated the Facebook Marketing API to version v17 in our Facebook Integration.

Triton Integration

Improvements

We introduced support for setting trafficker and account executive during the Submit process to Triton AdServer.

Xandr Integration

Improvements

We have addressed an issue in Xandr, documented in our Wiki, where changing the dates of a campaign item during runtime while still in draft resulted in an error related to changing start dates on intervals.

Xandr Integration

Improvements

We implemented following Xandr improvements:

1. We support "Content Categories" as a valid targeting in Xandr Programmable Splits, expanding the available targeting options.

2. We allow to configure the required time format when pushing advertisers into Xandr.

AdButler Integration

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved the issue where Monthly Site-Based Delivery Data reports from AdButler were not imported.

Xandr Buying Delivery Data for Monthly Delivery Report

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed an issue in the Xandr report service where requesting an invalid Ad ID caused an following error: ”Invalid filter value passed in, must match data type”.

Google Ad Manager Delivery Data

Changes and Optimisations

We fixed the issue where scheduled daily imports from the Delivery Report Centre were inconsistent and customers were encountering the error. "INVALID_FIELD:Foreign key external ID.

Freewheel Enhanced Delivery Data

Changes and Optimisations

We have resolved an issue with missing enhanced delivery data for a specific campaign item, addressing errors related to "INVALID_FIELD: Foreign key external ID" and advising the customer to import data via 'Transfer to ADvendio' on the connection object.

Geo-Targeting Sets

Changes and optimisations

We enhanced the targeting for Triton by supporting the exclusion of targeting criteria with customers able to remove/exclude values in the targeting section.

Google Ad Manager Integration

Changes and optimisations

We have made improvements to the Team assignment feature in our Google Ad Manager integration to prevent errors when used in combination with Agencies.

BURT Programmatic Media Campaign Generation

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed the issue with the Programmatic Media Campaign Generation for BURT when process failed when not all programmatic partners were mapped.

Triton Integration Transfer to ADvendio

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the timeout error in the Import feature cause by an unexpected value.

Xandr Integration

Changes and optimisations

We have addresses the following issues for Xandr Inegration:

1. Fixed a Null error that occurred during item booking to Xandr, caused by non-existent connection IDs in Ad type targeting.

2. Resolved the issue where users encountered an error while attempting to submit a campaign item with a future start date to Xandr AdServer.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Campaign Builder and Media Configuration

Improvement

Customers can now select Audience Segment Presets for Adswizz in both Media Configuration and Campaign Builder (Lightning UI).

Media Campaign

Improvement

We have implemented an improvement that sets the Media Campaign's start and end dates to default "null" if all campaign items within it are cancelled.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

For Campaign Builder we fixed the following:

• the issue where "Copy Value" action was not functioning correctly for Picklist (Multi-Select) fields in the Campaign Builder, causing a console error

• a problem in Campaign Builder where the geo-targeting tree displayed different structures compared to the Media Config

• visual bugs in the Campaign Builder, including a cut multipicklist, hidden issues associated with custom fields like Targeting and Availability, and the partial overlap of the Availability field with the Billing Category column after switching tabs

• The issue, where name "KeyValues/Audience Segments" was not fully displayed on the Targeting tab.

Check Availability

Changes and optimisations

We have addressed a Check Availability error in both the Media Config and the Campaign Item Related List, where errors were occurring when an Ad Price was configured as weekly and the campaign item duration was less than 5 days.

Fiscal period

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the issue with Duplicate Unique Key for Fiscal Periods in Revenue Schedule Daily.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Pre-Invoice generation

Improvement

We have addressed the "System.NullPointerException" issue that occurred during pre-invoice generation when trying to generate pre-invoices for campaign items without associated flexible payment plans in scenarios where FPP pre-invoices already present.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

For Campaign Builder we fixed the following:

• visual bugs in the Campaign Builder, including a cut multipicklist, hidden issues associated with custom fields Targeting and Availability, and the partial overlap of the Availability field with the Billing Category column after switching tabs

• the issue involved Campaign Builder failing when dealing with more than 100 virtual items

• the bug involving the inability to see the full screen or scroll when checking availability from the Campaign Builder when campaign item and media campaign names were long

• a problem involved the Copy Value functionality not triggering the Amount Calculation for relevant fields in the Campaign Builder

• the issue when adding a custom picklist has caused flickering upon the initial click

• the problem where "Amounts" did not correctly reflect the Budget N2 when the Agency commission was applied

• resolved an issue where the Campaign Builder was failing to calculate the amount correctly and was greying out buttons during a linear package availability check

• a bug where selecting a picklist field in the Campaign Builder triggered an error, displaying "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getBoundingClientRect" in the popup message.

Check Availability

Changes and optimisations

We resolved an issue where the Check Availability action in a flow was encountering error due to a new logic.

Media Campaign

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved an issue addressed the occurrence of a following message "A Component Error has occurred" for customers opening media campaigns.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Generic Clone

Improvement

We fixed an issue where cloning a media campaign with a cancelled campaign item caused all fields of the cloned campaign to become read-only and non-editable in media configuration.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the following issues in the Campaign Builder:

• an issue where the Special Discount amount was flashing and disappearing when a Target Net was set on a prorated package with a specified ratio

• a bug where price rules were failing to apply when freeform values were included in key values through the Campaign Builder

• a problem where after using the 'copy' feature to duplicate an item, the sort order was not being saved and disappeared.

Booking Calendar

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an error in the Booking Calendar Filter that prevented customers from adding Site, Placement, and Ad Type to the Filter Criteria.

Taxes (GST, HST, VAT)

Changes and optimisations

We resolved an issue where the "Reverse-Charge Mechanism" checkbox was not properly updating "Create Items as VAT Exempt" and "VAT Exempt" on Campaign Item settings, leading to inaccuracies in VAT calculations.

Ad Creatives

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue where customers encountered the following error message "The selected creative is already associated with this line item" when trying to push Ad Creatives.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Campaign Item Related List

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the issue with broken filter buttons in Campaign Item Related List, Programmatic Advertiser Wizard, Publisher Payout Contract Wizard, and Third Party Commission Wizard.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Ad Material Management

Changes and optimisations

We resolved the accessibility issue in Ad Material Management, which caused a loading screen loop. This ensured successful loading and functionality access.

Booking Calendar Lightning

Changes and optimisations

We fixed two issues in the Booking Calendar Lightning:

• We have fixed something in the weekly View. Previously, it defaulted to "Monday to Monday" when adding items from the calendar to the Campaign Builder, which caused problems with accurate frequency settings. Now, the calendar correctly calculates the frequency as "Monday to Sunday".

• We have fixed the issue in the Booking Calendar where colours were not behaving consistently when working with the Content detail mode.

Campaign Builder

New feature

We have improved the handling of the Campaign Builder with mandatory fields. This ensures that if any required fields are left blank or incomplete, the system will display a clear error messages when saving.

Changes and optimisations

We fixed a few issues in the Campaign Builder:

• We resolved an issue with Component error message that occured when using the Copy Value function in the Campaign Builder.

• We fixed an issue where the Campaign Builder screen flow component did not show items anymore.

• We have fixed an issue where Individual Package components did not have the edit option for the Sales Price anymore.

• We have added the Frequency Capping value to the Targeting Settings of the Campaign Builder settings.

Check Availability

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in our Availability Check logic (not Inventory Forecast) where Self-Blocking records were ignored in the Availability Check and therefore items were shown available although they weren’t.

Integration/Adswizz

Improvement

We have improved our logic when submitting Targeting to Adswizz with logical operators to make sure that valid combinations are submitted.

Integration/Adswizz

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed an issue where not all Publishers were imported in the Inventory import.

Programmatic Media Campaign Generation

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in the Programmatic Media Campaign Generation where the process stopped with errors about duplicated ids during the creation.

Security issues

Improvements

We have addressed a few Security issues to improve the security of ADvendio.

Submit to AdServer

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed a behaviour where From and Until times of the Campaign Item were updated during the process which lead to problems in follow-up processes.

Taxes (GST, HST, VAT)

Changes and optimisations

We have addressed a bug where VAT was not recalculated correctly when additional revenue schedule quantity was added after cancelation, specifically during the invoicing process where VAT on the original quantity, not the invoiced quantity, was calculated.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

We resolved the issue that Budget N2 does not take into account the discounts from media campaign.

Booking Calendar Lightning

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed the issue about hiding certain fields in Quote PDF.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in the Campaign Builder Split action where the "Field to share" picklist was not loaded correctly.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in the Campaign Builder where the Net Calculator functionality did not correctly take Target Net into account.

Campaign Builder, Publication Dates

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in the Campaign Builder where selecting many Publication Dates resulted in an error during save.

Campaign Builder, Media Configuration

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue for Placement based publication dates in the selection where it was not properly taking the placement into account.

Check Availability

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in our Check availability logic for exclusive items which made a connections license required even without digital items connected.

Publisher Payout

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue where the Publisher Payout Contract Wizard showed an error when selecting some filter fields, like Valid from.  

Submit Buying Order

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in TradeDesk when submitting Buying Orders that errors were not shown properly.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Submit Buying Order

Changes and optimisations

We fixed an issue in TradeDesk when submitting Buying Orders about an error that would be shown although the submit was successful.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Creative Upload for Google Ad Manager

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved the issue with Google Ad Manager where Creative Association was failing due to empty dates in Ad Creative, resulting in the error message, "The selected creative is already associated with this line item."

Programmatic Guaranteed for Google Ad Manager

Changes and optimisations

We corrected a bug that caused incorrect usage of currency settings during the Submit to AdServer process for Google Ad Manager Programmatic Guaranteed. This issue occurred when submitting a Proposal/Proposal Line Item for Google Ad Manager.

Programmatic Data Import for BURT

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved the issue where the BURT Programmatic Price Import was inconsistently changing the Deal Type with every import, by updating the unique key generation system to prioritize the Deal Type of the AdSpec.

The Trade Desk Buying Item

Changes and optimisations

We resolved an issue where the Buying Item status was not displaying correctly in notification emails upon the first submission of a Trade Desk Buying Order without errors.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved the issue where changing Quantity in the Campaign Builder caused the Special discount to disappear.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved a bug The Campaign Builder's Publication Dates issue, where February 2024 was missing, and March initially appeared twice.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved the issues in a Campaign Builder with Copy value feature.

Check Availability and

Submit to AdServer

Changes and optimisations

We have fixed unhandled errors during Check Availability and Submit with Key Values, resolving issues post-cloning of a Media Campaign, including error Unhandled error while executing the jobDuplicate key 126153 and discrepancies in key values seen in the AdServer after submission.

Google Ad Manager Check Availability

Changes and optimisations

We have resolved an issue in Google Ad Manager Check Availability and Submit to Ad Server by enhancing Key Value targeting logic to support Custom Values and Connection IDs forecast / booking.

Freewheel integration

Changes and optimisations

We fixed the issue in Freewheel Integration, enabling users to easily set Video and Inventory Targeting in ADvendio, including logical operators and grouping options as specified by Freewheel during Submit / Check Availability.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Campaign Builder, Publication Dates

Changes and Optimizations

We have fixed the Campaign Builder publication date and date selection issue, which incorrectly displayed month titles.

Campaign Builder

Changes and Optimizations

We have fixed an error that happened while saving with Publication Dates set to required which is not supported yet.

Creative Upload

Changes and Optimizations

We have fixed a few issues in the Creative Upload and adjusted previews for not supported types.

Daily Delivery Report, Delivery Data

Changes and Optimizations

We have fixed an issue in Equativ (Smart) where daily data retrieval was not working.

Media Search

Changes and Optimizations

We fixed an issue in the Media Search that happened when loading many items. 

Quote PDF

Changes and Optimizations

We have fixed an issue where numbers were shown incorrectly on the cover letter block of our quote pdf.

Sales Goals / Forecasts / Campaign Item Revenue Split

Changes and Optimizations

We have adjusted our Campaign Item Revenue Split logic to optimize the number of records queried in order to avoid query limits.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Campaign Builder

Changes and Optimizations

We fixed an error where user based tab rules were not properly taken into account in our Campaign Builder.

Integration / Adswizz

Changes and Optimizations

Fixed issues where errors were happening while attempting to push Media Campaign Items and targeting to the Adserver.

Integration / Freewheel, Submit to Adserver

Changes and Optimizations

Fixed an issue where the exclusion of site or video targeting for FreeWheel items was resulting in an error.

Integration / Freewheel

Changes and Optimizations

Fixed an issue where excluded inventory or video content targeting criteria for FreeWheel caused an error in availability and submit processes.

Media Search, Media Configuration, Campaign Builder

Changes and Optimizations

We adjusted our Media Search, Media Configuration and Campaign Builder to handle a scenario where Ad Specs restricted by sharing rules were added through the Booking Calendar but then caused errors later in the process. Now proper errors are shown and not visible items are skipped.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Ad Material Management

Changes and Optimizations

Fixed an issue where the Creative Targeting selection in our Ad Material Management UI lead to an error after saving.

Booking Calendar LWC

Changes and Optimizations

Fixed 2 issues in the Booking Calendar Lightning

• It was throwing an error when having one of the 2 feature settings in the org 7.2.2.9 Feature Setting to disable Ad Price Validation (the same was happening for the availability Publication Date Selection in Campaign Builder when the Inventory Forecast was enabled).

• The Booking Calendar was not taking the “Filter for active records” feature setting into account when working with Contents. This was added now.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Account Turnover

Changes and Optimizations

We fixed an issue where a security fix caused sharing rules to be overriden so that the Account Turnover was failing.

Campaign Builder

Improvements

We added an enhancement to the Campaign Builder:

• Currency fields will always be summarized in the bottom row of the Campaign Items

• the Summary will always be shown at the top even if no budget was set in the Media Campaign

Components

Issue Type

Description

Booking Calendar - Content search

Changes and Optimizations

We fixed an issue in the Advanced Content search of the Booking Calendar where the search was failing when many records were existing.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Ad Specs & Rates Manager

Changes and Optimizations

Fixed an issue where a value was not shown in the Targeting tree of the Ad Spec Connection ID assignment of the Ad Specs and Rates Manager due to special characters.

Campaign Builder

Improvement

We enabled the Campaign Builder custom javascript logic to react on Publication date changes by counting the number of selected dates.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Campaign Builder, Fiscal period

New Feature

We added the possibility to the Campaign Builder to split weekly (Monday-Sunday) when fiscal periods are enabled.

Campaign Builder

Changes and optimizations

Fixed an issue where the split by runtime was not applying the correct timeframes.

Check Availability, Optimizer

Changes and optimizations

We fixed issues in the check availability process from the optimizer. The users time zone was not taken into account for saving the date of the last availability check, which was causing follow up issues. Also we fixed a problem with the share of voice % displayed in the optimizing overview, which was not aligned with the actual availability check results.

Integration / Xandr

Changes and optimizations

The status information is now included again for Keys in the key & value import.

Integration / Xandr, Programmatic Data Import

Changes and optimizations

We fixed problems with the programmatic data import for our Xandr Integration, which was not running properly.

Media Buying

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an issue where Buy Data records were not created with "standalone" Buying Orders.

Media Configuration

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an error thrown in Media Campaign when "video content" hasn't been added to a feature setting.

Media Configuration, Publication Dates

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an issue where the Publication date selection skipped months if a date was selected or edited. 

Transfer to ADvendio

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an issue, where it was not possible to import only active Accounts for our DV360 integration.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Inventory Forecast Service, Booking Calendar

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an issue in our Inventory Forecast logic where weekly/monthly products were not properly forecasted. To solve this we enabled as a patch solution 2 new feature settings that can be used to work with the changed logic. These feature settings will define org wide the week and month starting day. Version 2.171 will allow the management of this on a product level. You can find more info here: Known Issues & limits | Inventory Forecast Service does not correctly calculate availabilities for runt...

Components

Issue Type

Description

ADvendio API, Optimizer

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an issue in our Optimizer Api logic which was working inconsistently when adding a new Campaign Item.

ADvendio API, Optimizer

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an error thrown while editing Campaign Item's Selected Targeting Sets using a request based on the use of ADvendio__SelectedContent__r.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Booking Calendar LWC, Content

Changes and optimizations

We fixed an issue in our Content tree for the Booking Calendar where it was not possible to open certain child levels.

Optimizer

Changes and optimizations

We made that that the correct Distribution Unit is preset in our Media Configuration and Optimizer features when working with Budget items.

Components

Issue Type

Description

Integration / Adswizz

Changes and optimizations

We fixed problems, where Region and other Geo Targeting Criteria were not considered properly in our Submit to AdServer for Adswizz.