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Weekly product news - CW 18

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ May 01, 2023

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Libraries: We fixed an issue where users couldn't add reviewers to approval requests.
  • Libraries: We fixed the custom metadata field to create new properties.
  • Libraries: We fixed the custom metadata select property options update. Now metadata value can be added/changed in single or multi-select field options.
  • Libraries: We fixed an issue that suggested tags didn't get deleted after disabling the auto-tagging feature.
  • Logo Libraries: We fixed a bug where manually defined preview images were not displayed in the logo packs.
  • Guidelines: We fixed an error where image captions in the image grid content block would show an extra HTML break row tag.
Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 17

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ April 24, 2023

New features πŸ†•β€¨

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Logo Library: Protect logos with copyright and licenses
    Library curators can now protect their Logo Library assets with copyright and licenses. In the library settings, these protection measures can be enforced for download, meaning that users downloading the assets must accept the copyright and license information before receiving the download. Further information can be found in our help articles.

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Digital & Print Templates: Sketch - We have resolved an issue where artboards containing a forward slash (/) could not be uploaded to Frontify.
Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 16

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ April 17, 2023

New features πŸ†•β€¨

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Integrations: Contentstack
    Easily manage and distribute your on-brand assets through Contentstack by directly accessing your Frontify libraries and projects. Eliminate system silos and improve productivity and brand consistency. Get more info in our help article.
  • Libraries: URL custom metadata property Ensuring end-users have all the information they need for an asset just got easier. With the new custom metadata property URL, you can enter web addresses into asset metadata. Viewers can click on the metadata sidebar links and view that page in the current or a new tab.

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Ecosystem: We fixed duplicated results on assets with multiple targets attached to them.
  • Libraries: We fixed an issue where it was no longer possible to request approvals based on presets from within a publication.
New feature
Integration

Connecting Frontify with Contentstack ✨

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ April 04, 2023

Hi there! Let me introduce a fantastic integration you've been eagerly anticipating: Contentstack.

Incorporating your Frontify on-brand visuals into your Contentstack environment allows you to manage your on-brand assets on your web pages and applications. Simplify your content creation and distribution process, eliminating system silos and improving productivity and brand consistency.

Get more info here.

Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 14

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ April 03, 2023

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Platform: We removed the maximum scale restriction to allow zooming and scaling also in the backend.
  • Platform: We fixed an accessibility issue by adding an aria-label to the file uploader component to support it for screen readers.
  • Digital & Print Templates: We have improved the behavior for groups and the layers within groups. It's now possible to select a group with modifiable elements by clicking on it - to jump to the layers below, you have to double-click. This behavior now applies to templates and publications.
  • Digital & Print Templates: We have resolved an issue where text fields that auto-grow from the right were not positioned correctly on the editing canvas. The template needs to be re-imported to make this fix work.
  • Media Library: The preview images in the media library frontend are no longer compressed.
  • Libraries: We fixed a bug where it was not possible to add/update property options to an existing select/multi-select metadata property.
  • Libraries: The filter flyout now behaves appropriately, even if it contains long tag names.
Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 13

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ March 27, 2023

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Media Library: We resolved an issue where certain custom metadata properties were unable to be saved due to duplicated property options. We have now merged these duplicate options across all database instances.
  • Media Library: Preview images in the media library frontend are no longer compressed.
  • Libraries: When switching between different assets, now the correct asset name is going to be displayed.
  • Digital & Print Templates: We have improved the behavior for groups and the layers within groups so that it's now possible to select a group with modifiable elements by clicking on it - to jump to the layers below, you have to double-click. This behavior now applies to templates and publications.
Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 12

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ March 21, 2023

New features πŸ†•β€¨

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Analytics: Asset audit trail
    With Asset audit trail, you can get the full story behind your assets. Discover the most relevant events of a visual, video, or document, and gain valuable insights into your brand creation process. Get more info here.
  • Analytics: Share analytics dashboard
    Enable all Frontify users to access the Analytics dashboard. Admins and owners can easily invite users and groups to track the performance of their brand assets. Get more information here.
  • Digital & Print Templates: Trigger Storyteq template chooser over a link
    We enabled triggering the template chooser for Storyteq templates from the guidelines. This link must be manually created and tied to the context from which it’s used. The link can be triggered for personal projects (/publishing-init/brand-id/project-id-styleguide?storyteq) or a regular project (/projects/project-id/project-name/publish?storyteq).
  • Platform: Adjust the metadata and workflow settings cogwheel
    We removed the Power Bar cogwheel from the Guidelines and Newsletter sections. We removed the "Metadata" option from the settings menu in the Libraries section. In the Projects section, we moved the cogwheel to the bottom, below the templates, and adjusted the "Metadata" menu item to "Project Metadata" and the subtitle to "Manage your custom project metadata properties."

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Digital & Print Templates: We fixed an issue where the very first creation of a publication did not work on a moved or referenced block because the personal project could not be created.
New feature
Analytics

Discover your assets' full story with Asset audit trail πŸ“Š

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ March 15, 2023

Hi there! Introducing another great addition to power up our Analytics Dashboard: Asset audit trail.
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Asset audit trail makes it easier to discover the full story behind your assets. You will have an overview of the most relevant events of a visual, video, or document. See who did what and when, and even contact team members directly. Streamline your team's communication and gain valuable insights into your brand creation process with Asset audit trail.

Get more info here.

Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 11

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ March 13, 2023

New features πŸ†•β€¨

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Platform: Dashboard title change
    Personalize your domain overview dashboard with the right title, maintaining consistency throughout your platform. Write your company or brand name or whatever makes more sense to you. Get more info here.

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Digital & Print Templates: InDesign - You can now add a background color to your polygon or circle image, even if it has an initially transparent background.
  • Digital & Print Templates: InDesign - Rectangles with the type "unassigned" are now displayed with "normal" corners.
  • Digital & Print Templates: InDesign - The changed background color of an element is now displayed in edit mode, even if the original color was a gradient.
  • Digital & Print Templates: InDesign - Replacing the image on a polygon or a circle is now possible even if the background color was applied to the image element.
  • Libraries: We will no longer display CDN links for non-previewable files.
  • Libraries: Deselect suggesting tags now is working fine.

Release notes

Weekly product news - CW 10

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Shared by Lorenzo β€’ March 06, 2023

New features πŸ†•β€¨

The following new features were released to enhance your experience:

  • Platform: 2FA Recovery codes
    Easily generate your two-factor recovery codes and access Frontify even if you don't have your 2FA device at hand. Get more info here.

Improvements πŸ› οΈ

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

  • Icon Library: We fixed an issue in the icon library pages where downloading all icons in a format different than svg was not possible if they shared the same name.
  • Digital & Print Templates: The request approval checkbox state shows the correct information instead of unchecking itself.
  • Document Library: We added an IDML extension to the allowed upload documents list so IDML files can be attached again.
  • Projects: We have resolved an issue where project metadata remained unchanged despite user selection.
  • Projects: We fixed an issue that caused Sketch artboards to no longer display all detail layers in Inspect mode.