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Weekly product news - CW 41

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Shared by Product • October 07, 2024

New Features 🆕

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Marketplace: Cards Grid block
    With our new Cards Grid block, you can easily display a mix of text and images. Add URLs for quick navigation and customize the design to match your brand.
  • Marketplace: Positioning Matrix block
    Organize elements like logos in a dynamic matrix with labeled X and Y axes. Personalize the design by adjusting colors, sizes, and borders to fit your style.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

  • Custom content blocks - Animated text and image block. Our partner Totem released a new version of the animated text and image block it developed. It contains a bug fix on the animation and a staggering dropdown in the blocks settings sidebar that prevented editors from changing both settings.
  • Libraries: We fixed a bug where the asset chooser reset to the original listing after searching for a term.
  • Libraries: We removed the library page video preview, which caused massive performance problems on library pages with many videos.
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Weekly product news - CW 40

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Shared by Product • September 30, 2024

New Features 🆕

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Apps: Brand SDK for apps - Beta
    The Brand SDK is a series of tools for developers to make it easier to build apps and customize and scale Frontify.
    Apps are internal applications that let users: Create or modify content – use tools like generative AI or image processing, such as background removal.
    Connect with tools – integrate directly with external systems; think OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 or Ciloo for on-demand printing.
    Automate tasks and processes – set up workflows triggered by actions within the platform.
    The brand SDK for apps is in beta; ask your customer success manager to get more information.
  • Apps: OpenAI image generator - Open Beta
    The Frontify OpenAI app lets you create new images based on textual input using Open AI API. Just type a little prompt, and in the blink of an eye, you'll see the images generated. The OpenAI image generator is in Open Beta; please ask your customer success to try this out.
  • Apps: TwicPics background removal - Open Beta
    The Frontify background removal instantly removes the background of your images.
    TwicPics background removal is in Open Beta; please ask your customer success to try this out.
  • Apps: Mockuuups - Open Beta
    The Mockuuups app allows you to use your images in more than four thousand mockup variations. You can insert your picture into a laptop, a smartphone, a TV frame, and more.
    The Mockuuups app is in Open Beta; please ask your customer success to try this out.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

  • Libraries: We fixed a bug where .ai files could no longer be downloaded in specific sizes.
  • Libraries: We removed the library page video preview, which caused massive performance problems on library pages with many videos.
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Weekly product news - CW 39

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Shared by Product • September 23, 2024

New Features 🆕

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Analytics: Guidelines search.
    The updated Guidelines Search tab enhances the discoverability and performance of your guidelines and assets by providing insights into user search behavior. This tab introduces two new metrics, adds a new line to the "Search Results and Clicks Over Time" graph, and includes a new tab for analyzing search, results, and clicks by query. Additionally, it now offers a detailed breakdown of search queries in the table at the bottom of the page, giving you a more comprehensive view of user interactions.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

  • Guidelines: We fixed a bug where the asset listing of a share link has been displayed too large in Safari.
  • Guidelines: We fixed a bug in which URL assets (Figma or Embed) no longer appeared in the asset chooser.
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Analytics

Guidelines Search Analytics

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Shared by Product • September 18, 2024

A warm welcome to a complete redesign of the Guidelines Search Analytics tab.

Guidelines search analytics helps users track key metrics like searches with no results and click-through rates, ensuring guidelines meet user needs. It also provides data to improve discoverability and streamline the search experience.

We’ve added two new metrics and revamped the Search Results and Clicks Over Time graph. There’s a new tab for search, results, and clicks by query, along with a detailed breakdown of search queries in the table at the bottom of the page.

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Weekly product news - CW 38

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Shared by Lorenzo • September 16, 2024

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

  • Templates: We have fixed a problem that caused rotated images to end up in the wrong place after export. This now works as expected.
  • Templates: An empty image placeholder couldn't be linked as an external data element. This has been fixed.
Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 37

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Shared by Lorenzo • September 09, 2024

New Features 🆕

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Integrations: DatoCMS
    The DatoCMS integration allows you to seamlessly retrieve the latest approved Frontify assets directly into DatoCMS, ensuring faster workflows and consistent branding across your digital platforms.
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Connecting Frontify with DatoCMS✨

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Shared by Lorenzo • September 06, 2024

We're excited to introduce DatoCMS as the latest addition to our growing list of powerful content management system integrations.

With this integration, developers and marketers can effortlessly access their on-brand visuals from Frontify directly within the DatoCMS environment, accelerating time to market and ensuring brand consistency.

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Weekly product news - CW 36

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Shared by Lorenzo • September 02, 2024


New Features 🆕

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Guidelines: Target visibility on content blocks.
    We've improved the targeting feature, a critical tool for many of our customers. Now, each content block and the new sections (in beta) display an indicator, giving editors a quick overview of where targets have been set. In the next iteration, you'll be able to click on the indicator to directly open the targets in the block sidebar, making it even easier to manage and review your settings.
  • Guidelines: Design Settings - backend negative values.
    We've extended a feature in the design settings, allowing users to define negative values for letter spacing in individual type styles. Previously, only positive values were possible.
  • Libraries: Sorting of asset results for filters.
    If a user has only selected filters, the asset sorting will remain unchanged. It will only change to "best match" relevance sorting if a query is entered on a library page search.
Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 35

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Shared by Lorenzo • August 26, 2024


Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

  • Desktop App: We fixed a bug where icons in PNG format were displaying incorrectly when dragged into another program.
  • Desktop App: We fixed a bug where manually added document previews were not appearing in the Desktop App.
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Weekly product news - CW 34

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Shared by Lorenzo • August 19, 2024


Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

  • Libraries: We fixed a bug in the dropdown list: it was not possible to select an item in the dropdown list when creating a new library.
  • Libraries: We cleaned up invalid data that caused auto-tags to be visible even if auto-tagging was disabled in the library.
  • Libraries: We fixed an issue where a library page that contained several big GIF assets was unresponsive.
  • Desktop app: We fixed a bug where icons in PNG format were displaying incorrectly when dragged into a different program.
  • Desktop app: We fixed a bug where manually added previews (for documents) did not appear in the Desktop App.
  • Guidelines: We added the possibility of leaving the alt attribute for images empty in cases where the image is purely decorative and should be hidden from the screen reader to optimize its accessibility.
  • Guidelines: Added alt value "Information" if the custom callout icon in the callout block is selected based on block type (note, warning, information, tip) to have it accessible.
  • Guidelines: We added "screenreader label" in the block settings sidebar to enable the user to add an accessible name for the iFrame rendered in the block.
  • Guidelines: We added "Alt text" in block item settings to add an accessible name for each asset added to the compare slider block.
  • Guidelines: We added "alt text" in the block settings sidebar to add an accessible name for the image to the annotations block.
  • Guidelines: We added "Alt text" in block item settings to an accessible name for each asset added to the image grid block.
  • Guidelines: We added "Alt text" in block item settings to an accessible name for each asset added to the new do & don't block.
  • Guidelines: We added an aria-label attribute to the video object in the video block with the video's name to ensure embedded objects are directly accessible.
  • Guidelines: We removed the alt text attribute of the video block thumbnail to optimize the block's accessibility.
  • Guidelines: We fixed a bug where collections could not be downloaded from library pages when they contained targeted assets that the user didn't have access to.