ADvendio Version 2.117 - Winter 2020
We are constantly extending ADvendio for you. To make sure you don’t miss any of the latest improvements and know what you have to do in order to make these features available for your whole team, we’ve created this page. Check the release notes regularly if you like to implement new features and to keep your system up to date.
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Release Notes - Version 2.117 - Sprint 2019-09
To install ADvendio Version 2.117 Winter 2020 please use
- Installation link 2.117.3 for your production environment (org) or
- Installation link 2.117.3 to update your sandbox.
Before updating ADvendio from a lower to the newest version you first need to install version 2.104. See links below!
Please ensure that you are not logged into a salesforce org where you don't wish to install ADvendio! We recommend that you either use an incognito window of your browser or use a different browser altogether to install new versions.
Need help during the installation? See our upgrade tips.
Attention: We're constantly improving ADvendio, but this also means certain features will be removed or replaced. Please check our Deprecation/Deletion Schedule for 2023/2024 periodically to see if this affects you.
Version | Type | Components | Description | ADvendio Ticket No. | Wiki | Highlight | Requested by customer |
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2.115.5, 2.116.1, 2.117 | Improvement | Accounting Interfaces | In order to create Accounting Records for relevant items, and to ensure a smooth transition to the Accounting Interfaces, only Invoice Items in the current Accounting Period will be collected as part of the Accounting Record Creation process. This is now part of the Accounting Record Creation Entry Criteria. | AD-5351 | x | ||
2.116.2, 2.117 | Improvement | Accounting Interfaces | Fixed price inventory with delivery data are only considered in thee collection process. Accruals, deferrals and distribution records will not be created for such Campaign Items. | AD-5317 | x | x | |
2.115.5, 2.116.1, 2.117 | Improvement | Accounting Interfaces, Amount Calculation | The value of N3 used in TPC Amount calculation is now rounded to two decimal places to ensure consistent calculation of TPC amount in new Accounting Record Creation process. | AD-5350 | x | ||
2.117 | Improvement | AdSerer Gateway / SelfService | Important steps for our future Self Service features! We enabled one of our core components the check availability of AdServer related products to be accessed via an API from outside of Salesforce. This is part of our future plan to help you, built self service solutions, where your clients can configure exactly those products they need and send this information directly to you. Want to learn more about this? Contact your Technical Account Manager or support@advendio.com so we can talk about, how you can take part in this exciting change. | AD-5193, AD-5396 AD-5410 | x (on request) | x | x |
2.117 | Improvement | AdServer Gateway / AdManager DFP | We always strive to use the newest technologies for our AdServer Integrations. With version 2.117 we're now using the Google AdManager API v201908, keep an eye on our [External API Version] Control, Updates and Compatibility Guide, to see which ADvendio version supports which APIs / AdServer Versions. | AD-4696 | |||
2.117 | Improvement | AdServer Gateway | The Enhanced Delivery Data report gives you more detailed information about your ads and their delivery. We improved the performance of this great feature for you. | AD-5397 | x | ||
2.117 | Improvement | AdServer Gateway / AdServer Freewheel | Important notice for our Freewheel customers! In December Freewheel will deprecate the Ad Unit API v1 and Forecasting API v3. With version 2.117 or patch version 2.116.3 ADvendio now uses the all new Ad Unit API v4 and Forecasting API v4. To ensure that your connection to Freewheel will not be affected, please switch to one of these versions until December. No further steps are needed from your side, just install the new version. | AD-4713, AD-4845, AD-5442, AD-5443 | x | x | |
2.117 | Improvement | AdServer Gateway / AdServer Freewheel | More control over your Freewheel forecasting. We now support the configuration of which Forecast mode to use for your Freewheel integration. This gives you control over: which information will be available, how detailed the simulation of your inventory is and how fast the Forecast will be finished. Configuration can be done with a few simple steps. | AD-4845 | x | x | |
2.115.1, 2.116.1, 2.117 | Bug | AdServer Gateway, AdManager DFP, Programmatic | Various fixes and improvements for Programmatic Guaranteed Items for Google Ad Manager. Please see also our wiki for important information about the submit of item rates and prices to Google: 4.17 Programmatic Guaranteed | AD-5318 AD-5302 | x | ||
2.117 | Improvement | Amount Calculation, Media Configuration, Net Calculator, PDF | The latest version of ADvendio brings a much anticipated improvement by many of our customers. With version 2.117, you now have the ability to configure decimal places for sales price. This improvement has far reaching implications, in particular, for example, when dealing with billing categories with very low sales price. For example you have an item with CPCV at ,05214 and a quantity of 1000. You can now invoice this item to the value of 52,14 instead of the previous value of 50,00. Furthermore, the full Sales Price value can also be reflected on your quote and invoice PDFs. Read our Wiki for more information about the setup of this feature: 7.6.14 Setup Sales Price Decimals. | AD-5243 AD-5242 AD-3049 | x | x | x |
2.117 | Bug | Commitments | Fixed bug where Legal Entity was not used as matching criteria for Commitments when participating accounts used. | AD-5311 | |||
2.117 | Task | Exchange / Platform 161 | We enhanced our Platform161 integration to now also support Inventory Sources and Deals, as well as updated our documentation on how to Connect Platform 161. | AD-5023 | x | x | |
2.117 | Improvement | Exclusivity Check | We improved some parts of the product configuration and automation for the Check Availability for Exclusive Products feature. | AD-5328 | |||
2.116.1 | Bug | Finance / Invoicing / Billing Run | Fixed bug in billing run when invoice date could not be changed manually where no Accounting Periods were in use. | AD-5405 | |||
2.117 | Bug | Finance / Invoicing / Preinvoicing | Now when updating your pre-invoices, any manually entered invoice date is maintained. | AD-5255 | |||
2.117 | Bug | Finance / Invoicing / Preinvoicing | Fixed issue on Portrait PDF where N1 was only visible when Agency Earnings or Third Party Commission were part of a Media Campaign. | AD-5275 | |||
2.116.1 | Improvement | Finance / Invoicing / Preinvoicing | In order to give you the most flexibility with regards to your invoicing needs, it is now possible to set the payment start for individual Campaign Items. This enables you to invoice items on an alternate schedule to the rest of your Media Campaign. Doing so via the Campaign Item has the added benefit that if the invoice date is the same as another item within your Media Campaign, they will be shown on the same invoice, saving both you and your customer administrative time and effort. | AD-5338 | x | x | |
2.115.7, 2.116.4, 2.117 | Bug | Finance / Invoicing / Preinvoicing | Fixed error in invoice generation for total invoices where Campaign Item added which alters start of Campaign runtime | AD-5420 | |||
2.116.1 | New Feature | Meeting your taxation requirements just got easier and more convenient with the latest improvement to handling of VAT/GST within ADvendio. With the new enhanced ability to configure who is considered the 'buyer' for tax purposes, you can now handle the creation of your Media Campaigns where, for example, the Debtor location should not determine the applicable VAT from a buyer perspective but the Beneficiary location. This feature setting can be created to set up one field for the applicable buyer or even implement a hierarchy. | AD-5327 | x | x | ||
2.117 | Improvement | Finance / Invoicing / VAT | Since it is now possible to configure your VAT/GST on a state by state basis, we have added Legal Entity State mapping to improve transparency and help trouble shoot issues with unexpected/incorrect VAT matching. | AD-5347 | |||
Bug | Finance / Invoicing / VAT | Fixed bug where Total % VAT 1 and 2 as well as group names were not reset when applicable VAT rates were cleared. | AD-5345 | ||||
2.115.8, 2.116.5, 2.117 | Bug | Flexible Payment Plans | Fixed issue where flexible payment plans at start/end of runtime were not automatically updated when runtime changes | AD-5422 | |||
2.117 | Improvement | Media Campaign, Accounts | In order to accommodate the fact that some Agency Accounts may function as an Intermediary in some Media Campaigns, we have removed the optional filtering on the Intermediary field in the Media Campaign to better facilitate our Lightning users. | AD-5341 | x | ||
2.117 | Bug | Media Configuration | Fixed issue where package sizes which were greater than paging limit were causing an error in the Media Configuration. Error message no longer displays. | AD-5309 | |||
2.117 | Bug | Media Configuration | Fixed bug where dependent fields were no longer editable in the Media Configuration when saving failed, for example due to a validation rule. Some issues may be encountered if accessing a Dependent field via our JS library. | AD-5336 | |||
Improvement | Media Configuration | We have removed quantity rounding for amount distributed items. Meaning, you can now accommodate ,5 or 1,5 quantities. | AD-5403 | ||||
2.117 | Improvement | Permission Sets, Settings | Following the release of Salesforce Summer '19SF, there are some critical updates which need to be handled for Custom Settings and Custom Metadata Types. These critical updates required some changes to the ADvendio Super User Permission Set. These changes have been included in version 2.117. To find out more about the critical updates, in particular what impact it has on ADvendio users, please check out our wiki. | AD-5339 | x | ||
2.117 | Improvement | Publisher Payout | To improve transparency and reporting for the Publisher Payout process. We now save the Delivery Data Ratio which was used to calculate the Publisher Payout amount directly in the Publisher Payout Invoice Item Assignment. | AD-4583 | x | ||
2.114.6, 2.115.7, 2.116.3, 2.117 | Bug | Sales Goals | Fixed issue in Campaign Item Revenue Split batch process where an exception might occur when all Media Campaigns in a batch do not have an Advertiser or Agency. | AD-5402 | |||
2.117 | Bug | Translations | Updates to Korean and Japanese translation to fix minor HTML error. | AD-5406 | x |
To install ADvendio Summer 2019 - 2.117.1 please use
- Installation link 2.117.1 for your production environment (org) or
- Installation link 2.117.1 to update your sandbox.
Please ensure that you are not logged into a salesforce org where you don't wish to install ADvendio! We recommend that you either use an incognito window of your browser or use a different browser altogether to install new versions.
Version | Type | Component | Description | ADvendio Ticket No. | Wiki | Highlight |
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2.117.1 | Changes & Optimizations | Publisher Payout | Fixed entry criteria for Publisher Payout Process to consider Collected until date. | AD-5448 | ||
2.117.1 | Changes & Optimizations | AdServer Gateway / Freewheel | Various fixes and performance improvements for Check Availability in Media Configuration | AD-5360 |
To install ADvendio Summer 2019 - 2.117.2 please use
- Installation link 2.117.2 for your production environment (org) or
- Installation link 2.117.2 to update your sandbox.
Please ensure that you are not logged into a salesforce org where you don't wish to install ADvendio! We recommend that you either use an incognito window of your browser or use a different browser altogether to install new versions.
Version | Type | Component | Description | ADvendio Ticket No. | Wiki | Highlight |
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2.117.2 | Changes & Optimizations | Accounting Interfaces | Changed skipping logic for zero amount items to consider Invoice Items instead of Campaign Items. | AD-5469 | ||
2.117.2 | Bugs | Accounting Interfaces | Fixed issue where over delivery resulted in an assertion error for Accrual Reverse, now accruals will be created in the case of over delivery. Fixed issues with Amount differences due to rounding and rest distribution in the case of distribution on a monthly or total basis | AD-5475 AD-5464/AD-5470 | ||
2.117.2 | Changes & Optimizations | Media Configuration | Implemented temporary fix for handling CPU limits in Publication Date Calendar in Media Configuration | AD-5471 |
To install ADvendio Summer 2019 - 2.117.3 please use
- Installation link 2.117.3 for your production environment (org) or
- Installation link 2.117.3 to update your sandbox.
Please ensure that you are not logged into a salesforce org where you don't wish to install ADvendio! We recommend that you either use an incognito window of your browser or use a different browser altogether to install new versions.
Version | Type | Component | Description | ADvendio Ticket No. | Wiki | Highlight |
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2.117.2 | Bugs | Booking Calendar | Fixed problems with creating new Media Campaign from the Booking Calendar Attention: We're currently facing problems, that a user creates a Media Campaign for the first time, the process doesn't finisher properly and leads to the Media Campaign Page instead of the Media Configuration with the selected items. This happens only the first time and afterwards everything works as expected. | AD-5421 | x | |
2.117.2 | Bugs | Finance / Invoicing / PreInvoice Wizard | Fixed problems with the generation of new PreInvoices for packages, which were already existing, but have been prolonged for another month. | AD-5511 |