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Release Notes for Content Station Aurora

The Content Station Release Notes contain information about the new features, changes, fixed issues, known issues and upgrade instructions for each release of Content Station Aurora (version 11).

The versions are sorted by version number in descending order. Use the Navigation block to the right of the page to quickly navigate to the information of a released version.

Content Station 11.18 build 202

Release date: 8 August 2018

Content Station version: 11.18 build 202

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 116

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.4.0 build 47

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.12

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Digital editor: Controlling components through Component Sets

Content Station 11.18 makes it possible to fully control how the components of a Digital article look and behave, and which components are available for a user to add.

This is all done through the use of 'Component Sets'.

A Component Set defines the following:

  • The component types that a user can make use of in a particular article such as a body component, an image component, a custom component (see below), an interactive component, and so on.
  • The appearance of the Component window that is used for adding a component to an article: the name and icon of a component, how they are grouped and how the group is named.
  • The properties in the Properties panel for each component type.
  • The default look and feel of a component.
  • The functionality of a component type such as if it can be converted to another component type and if so which one, and if it can be made part of another component.

Multiple Component Sets can be set up, each with their own configuration. This way, the components can be controlled for each individual Digital article.

Example: One Component Set could be set up containing only those components that are needed for a news article, another for a blog post, yet another for publishing to a digital channel, and so on.

The default components

Figure: The default set of components.

A Custom Component Set

Figure: A custom set of components. Here, the Quote, Separator, and Crosshead components are made unavailable, and the Author component has been renamed to 'Byline' and given a different icon.

For more information, see Setting up Component Sets in Content Station Aurora.

Digital editor: Custom components

The introduction of Component Sets also makes it possible to add custom components for adding specific content or content that is structured in a specific and consistent way.

The types of custom components that can be created are endless and only limited to your imagination and the technology used.

Some examples:

  • Placing an icon on top of an image. In a newspaper scenario, it might be necessary to indicate that articles are part of a 'breaking news' story, that they contain a video, that an update will follow later, and so on. This can be done by placing an icon on top of the image of the story.

This can be achieved by using the default Image component or Slide Show component and to add an additional property to it in the form of a list from which the various types of icons can be selected.

CSS styling is used to ensure that the size and position is consistent for each icon.

Placing an overlay icon on an image

Figure: An icon is placed on an image by choosing it from a list of options.

  • Ordered and unordered lists. These can be made by creating a Container component in which only an ordered or unordered component can be added. Components of an ordered list are automatically numbered.

A component for ordered lists.

  • A News Ticker. These show a summary of main news stories, sports results, and so on. They can be made by creating a Container component with specific components and act as a template in which the content can be quickly added, such as a time stamp, title, image, video, link to social media, and so on.

A News Ticker component

Configuration: Enabling or disabling features through the Management Console

To ease the process of configuring Content Station, certain features can now be enabled or disabled through the Features page in the Management Console.

This makes it clearer that these features exist and they can be configured without knowing their internal name or knowing in which configuration file they need to be modified (although this is still possible to do).

The Features page

Figure: The Features page in the Management Console can be used for enabling or disabling specific features.

For more information, see Configuring Content Station Aurora.

Digital editor: option to keep articles checked-out as long as they are open

When opening an article in the Digital editor, it is automatically saved and checked-in when the user has not worked on the article for a certain period of time. This automatically makes the article available for others to edit.

In certain workflows though, it is desirable to keep the article locked as long as it is opened, regardless of whether it is actively being worked on or not.

This can now be achieved by enabling the feature named 'Keep the article checked-out as long as it is opened' on the Features page in the Management Console.

Publication Overview Application: option for preventing page previews from being used as thumbnails

By default, when the zoom level exceeds the maximum size of the page thumbnails (by default set to 255 pixels), the Publication Overview grid view loads the page previews instead of the page thumbnails. Because the file size of page previews can be quite large, performance (loading times) can be negatively affected.

To prevent the Publication Overview grid view from loading page previews (even when the maximum thumbnail size is exceeded), the following option can now be set in the config_overrule.php file of Enterprise Server.

  • PublicationOverviewGridPreventPreviewLoading

Tip: to make sure that the page thumbnails do not become too pixelated by zooming in on them too much, limit the maximum zoom level by setting the PublicationOverviewMaxGridViewZoom option.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Content Station:

  • Desktop App. Content Station 11.18 requires the Desktop app version 2.4.x to be installed. It will not work with older versions.

Note: Older versions of Content Station will work with any version of the Desktop App, including version 2.4.x that is shipped with Content Station 11.18.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

For Component Sets and Custom components:

For the Publication Overview Application:

For the Features page:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.
  • Digital editor: The Custom Styles editor only loads SCSS files for groups that are listed in the component definition, while the design.scss file may refer to other SCSS files as well. As a result, the custom styles editor does not work for components that are not part of the Component window (used for adding a component to an article).

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Content Station:

CSH-5440 Avoid high bandwidth usage when viewing the Publication Overview.

CSH-5587 Publication Overview: pages with different sizes are not displayed correctly.

CSH-5603 The Inbox query request should not include the children of all objects.

CSH-5653 Publication Overview: pages used as a spine are not displayed correctly.

CSH-5673 Do not resolve Digital article file format to version 1.2 when it is not requested in a GetObjects request.

CSH-5710 After adding a component to a new article, the preview creation is triggered and failing with each edit action.

CSH-5693 Create new article dialog: Dossier list is not updated when choosing a different Issue.

CSH-5773 'Upload Progress' in Attachment Panel is overlapping the Browse Button.

Installation

Content Station 11.17 build 201

Release date: 25 July 2018

Content Station version: 11.17 build 201

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 115

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.3.0 build 42

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.12

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

No new features have been added to this release of Content Station.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Content Station:

  • Indication when files are taken offline by a Smart Connection user. Users who work on Enterprise files in InDesign or InCopy with Smart Connection installed can takes these files offline so that they can work on them without being connected to Enterprise. In Content Station Aurora, this is indicated by using a red color for the 'Locked by icon', shown when viewing search results in list view.

content-station-11.17-locked-by-icon-red-2.png

  • Change in Apache Web Server setup. Content Station 11.17 includes a .htaccess file which ensures that the index.html and config.js files are not cached by the Web browser. Make sure to also adjust the caching of the index.html and config.js files in Apache by enabling the mod_headers module. Do this by uncommenting or adding the following to your Apache configuration:

LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so

For information about the module, see the Apache documentation Apache Module mod_headers.

Note: The .htaccess file is a hidden file in the Finder on MacOS.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-3371 Uploading a layout to a Dossier does not assign the Issue of the Dossier to that layout.

CSH-5518 Check-out option still available in 'More actions' menu after checking-out an image in layout preview.

CSH-5728 CreateObjects API: duplicate objects are created when creating multiple objects in one call and the Content Station plug-in is enabled.

CSH-5770 Custom Search: Criteria with an empty argument are not saved.

Installation

Content Station 11.16 build 200

Release date: 11 July 2018

Content Station version: 11.16 build 200

Content Station Server plug-in version: 11.16 build 108

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.3.0 build 42

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.12

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

No new features have been added to this release of Content Station.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Content Station.

Documentation

No changes have been made to the documentation for this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-5588 Upload dialog does not show long workflow status values.

CSH-5598 Option to editing a Print article is not available on Windows.

CSH-5686 Publication Overview: unable to check-out images.

CSH-5696 Status of an object is not updated when using 'Send to Next status'.

Installation

Content Station 11.15 build 197

Release date: 28 June 2018

Content Station version: 11.15 build 197

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 106

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.3.0 build 42

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.12

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Publishing to a custom channel: option to add custom data

When publishing a Digital article to a custom channel, it is sometimes required to include sensitive information such as authentication or security information.

Such data can now be included by setting the Custom data field for the custom channel.

The Custom data option

Notes:

  • Any type of text can be entered here. Be aware though that the receiving system should be able to recognize and process it. Data can for example be added as:
  • A JWT token
  • A JSON data structure
  • A key value list
  • Because of the sensitive nature of this data, added data will be displayed as placeholder text and not in a readable form. Editing added data is done by adding new custom data to an empty field which will then overwrite the existing custom data. The original data is never displayed.
Publication Overview Application: option for hiding missing pages

By default, the Publication Overview Application shows all pages of a publication: pages that are created, planned or missing.

If missing pages should be permanently hidden for all users, enable the following option in the config_overrule.php file):

  • File that option belongs to: configserver.php file
  • Name of option: HideMissingPages
  • Location: SERVERFEATURES list
  • Example:

new Feature( 'HideMissingPages'),

Desktop Application: support for Adobe CC 2018 added

The Desktop Application is used for automatically opening files in their native application. Support has now been added for opening layouts in InDesign CC 2018 and articles in InCopy CC 2018. Selecting which version of InDesign or InCopy to use is done in the Settings window of the Desktop Application.

Note: Opening documents in InDesign or InCopy CC 2018 from Content Station also requires Smart Connection to be installed. Smart Connection for Adobe CC 2018 is scheduled to be released early July.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Content Station.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-3138 Copy To: Dossier field is not reloaded after selecting a different Issue.

CSH-5448 Publication Overview: add support for hiding missing pages.

CSH-5466 Copy To: Dossier field is not reloaded after selecting a different Issue.

CSH-5493 Positioning of Sticky Notes differs slightly with those of Smart Connection and Content Station AIR.

CSH-5518 Layout preview: 'Check-out' option in 'More actions' menu for image still available after checking-out an image.

CSH-5690 Publication Overview not loading correctly when Sticky Note does not have parent page information.

Installation

Content Station 11.14 build 104

Release date: 13 June 2018

Content Station version: 11.14 build 104

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 195

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.12

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

No new features have been added to this release of Content Station.

Changes

No changes have been made for this release of Content Station.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made for this release of Content Station.

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-5597 Issues using footnotes in the Print editor.

CSH-5601 Single CR LF is not respected when copying and pasting text to the Digital editor.

CSH-5604 Custom search: Unable to filter on Route To.

Installation

Content Station 11.13 build 194

Release date: 30 May 2018

Content Station version: 11.13 build 194

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 103

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.12

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following feature has been added to this release of Content Station:

  • Digital editor: restoring versions. A previous version of the Digital article can now also be restored as the current version from within the History panel in the Digital editor (in previous versions this was already possible by using the History panel in the Search results page). For more information, see Viewing and restoring file versions using Content Station Aurora.

Changes

The following change has been made for this release of Content Station:

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-1726 [Microsoft Edge] Long template name not fully visible in Create New window.

CSH-2360 Edit icon in History panel not shown on thumbnail of a checked-out file.

CSH-2409 [iPad Chrome] Not possible to remove files from the Inbox.

CSH-4927 [Publication Overview] Page number is not shown in Full layout preview.

CSH-5168 Fullscreen layout preview: horizontal scroll bar is always shown.

CSH-5173 Custom search: not possible to select 'Current Issue'.

CSH-5227 [Publication Overview] Changing Editions zooms in the view in Full layout preview.

CSH-5268 [Print editor] Text disappears after pasting from Microsoft Word.

CSH-5439 [Print variant] 'Next style' is not working correctly.

CSH-5484 Placing a Digital article on a checked-out layout results in a unplaced article.

CSH-5500 [Internet Explorer, Print editor] Insert note icon is not shown.

CSH-5536 [iPad] Unable to scroll when comparing Digital article versions.

CSH-5538 Layout preview: Unable to scroll left.

CSH-5568 Routing multiple selected files do not appear in the user's Inbox.

CSH-5612 [Exporting an InDesign layout to a Digital article] Export fails when images are not stored in Enterprise.

Installation

Content Station 11.12 build 192

Release date: 16 May 2018

Content Station version: 11.12 build 192

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 102

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.10

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Print editor: adding Inline Notes

Using the Print editor, Inline Notes can now be added to a Print article.

Inline Notes can be used for adding a note as a reminder, comment or reference, or as a question, instruction or feedback about the text in the article.

Inline Notes appear as an icon in the text editor. When the icon is clicked, the content appears in a pop-up window.

An Inline Note.

Figure: Inline Notes appear as an icon in the text. When clicking the icon, the content appears in a pop-up window.

For more information, see Working with Inline Notes in the Print editor of Content Station Aurora.

Print editor: adding footnotes

Using the Print editor, footnotes can now be added to a Print article.

Footnotes appear as an icon in the editor. When the icon is clicked, the content appears in a pop-up window. Footnotes also appear in the layout preview (when available).

A footnote.

Figure: Footnotes appear as an icon in the text. When clicking the icon, the content appears in a pop-up window.

For more information, see Working with footnotes in the Print editor of Content Station Aurora.

Changes

The following changes have been made for this release of Content Station:

  • File versioning: The 'Versions' panel (used for viewing and restoring versions of a file), has been renamed to 'History' panel. This is done to bring it more in line with the History panel of the Digital editor.

File versions in Content Station 10

Figure: Viewing versions of a file in Content Station Aurora.

For more information about file versioning, see Viewing and restoring file versions using Content Station Aurora.

  • Digital articles: For exporting a layout to Content Station as a Digital article, the following changes have been made:
  • When the user starts the export process, a template to create the Digital article with now first needs to be selected.
  • The created article will now have the Brand and Category of the template assigned. In Content Station 11.11, the Brand and Category of the original layout was assigned.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-2582 Microsoft Edge - Not possible to open multiple files in fullscreen mode from Thumbnail view with the Space bar.

CSH-2777 Layout preview: Incorrect page number shown in the navigation box after navigating to a page by entering a number in the navigation box.

CSH-5252 'Send to next status' context menu command does not respect Access Right setting.

CSH-5280 Minor user interface issues on Safari.

CSH-5400 No message shown when user is not allowed to edit a Digital article.

CSH-5420 Article compare: text removed from Product article component is not marked as deleted.

CSH-5421 Article compare: added text is not marked as added.

CSH-5424 Tooltip text is not shown for the Version button.

CSH-5427 iPad: Unable to scroll in a Digital article.

CSH-5429 iPad: Unable to add components in an empty Digital article template and Digital article.

Installation

Content Station 11.11 build 190

Release date: 2 May 2018

Content Station version: 11.11 build 190

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 101

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

InDesign PrintToDigital script: 1.0.5

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following feature has been added to this release of Content Station:

  • Exporting an InDesign layout to a Digital article. Stories that have been created as a layout in InDesign for use in a print workflow can now be turned into a Digital article by exporting the layout from InDesign.

Example of an InDesign layout imported as a Story in Inception

Figure: Example of an InDesign layout (left) imported as a Story in Inception (right). Imported are the title (A), subtitle (B), author (C) and body text (D). Images are currently added as attachments (E) and can be manually added.

This feature is based on an InDesign Article that contains all content that needs to be exported. By running a script in InDesign, the InDesign article is automatically turned into a Digital article in Content Station.

For more information, see Exporting an InDesign layout to a Digital article in Content Station Aurora.

Changes

No changes have been made for this release of Content Station.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-5417 History panel: editing the article, switching out of the History panel and switching back to the panel while the changes are being saved displays an error and incorrect versions.

Installation

Content Station 11.10 build 100

Release date: 19 April 2018

Content Station version: 11.10 build 100

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 189

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Digital articles: comparing article versions

An article typically goes through many changes which are made by multiple people. It can be practical (and even important) to verify which changes were made, when they were made and by whom they were made as work on the article progresses or even after the article has been published.

It works by comparing one version of the Digital article with the version before it. This is done by using the new History panel that has been added to the Digital editor.

The following changes are shown:

  • For components that contain text: Text that has been removed is shown on a red background with strike-through text; text that has been added is shown on a green background.
  • For components that do not contain text (such as image, interactive, social, and video components): changes to the content of the component cannot be shown; only shown is if the component itself has been added or removed.

Comparing versions of a Digital article

Figure: Comparing versions of a Digital article.

For more information, see Comparing articles.

Dossiers: Filtering files by using a label

Dossiers typically contain many files whereas users only want to work on some of those files. To filter out files that a user does not want to see at that time, labels can now be used.

Example: Labels could be 'Photo shoot 1', 'Photo shoot 2', 'Inspiration', 'Draft content', and so on. Imagine for instance a photo editor who needs to work on images taken during the second photo shoot. To show all the files related to that photo shoot, all it takes is clicking the label that has been set up named 'Photo shoot 2'.

Filtering files in a Dossier by using labels

Figure: A Dossier in which files are filtered based on their label. Here, only those files are shown that have the label 'Photoshoot 2' assigned.

For more information, see Filtering files in a Dossier using labels.

List view: Deadline icon column added

The 'Deadline icon' column has been added to the List view. It shows a green, yellow or red icon if the deadline is set on a file. For more information, see Configuring the deadline warning time (soft deadline) in Enterprise Server 10.

Changes

No changes have been made for this release of Content Station.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

  • Digital editor > History panel: editing the article, switching out of the History panel and switching back to the panel while the changes are being saved displays an error and incorrect versions.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-5176 Article does not scroll when dragging a component.

CSH-5282 Digital editor: Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters are not displayed correctly in Chrome v65 / Firefox 59.0.2.

Installation

Content Station 11.9 build 186

Release date: 4 April 2018

Content Station version: 11.9 build 186

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 99

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Publication Overview Application: Viewing related pages

Info: This feature also requires Enterprise Server 10.4 or higher.

A layout of a print publication rarely exists as a unique object in the system but is likely to be duplicated to one or more other Brands as the basis for other layouts, or it could be that one or more Editions are created for the layout.

It is important therefore to be aware of any relations that may exist between a particular page and other pages that are derived from it.

Such relations can now be viewed in the Related pages panel.

Viewing related pages

Figure: The Related pages panel shows all pages that are related to a selected page.

Pages in the panel are grouped by Issue and are sorted based on the order that is configured on Enterprise Server. To view all pages of an Issue, click the 'Open Issue in a new browser tab' icon.

The pages in the panel display the same information as those in the main screen. They can also be double-clicked for viewing in fullscreen mode, or right-clicked for accessing the context menu.

The Filter at the top of the panel can be used to only see related pages that are part of specific Brands.

Publication Overview Application: Adding a custom use to the flag

Info: This feature also requires Enterprise Server 10.4 or higher.

When Content Station is used together with a planning system, layouts that need attention are marked by the planning system with a red flag. This flag appears in the thumbnail of the layout in the Publication Overview Application of Content Station.

A custom use for this flag can now also be configured. When triggered, the flag is colored yellow.

It works by defining a metadata field in the configuration of Enterprise Server. When this field holds any value (typically a message for the user, added to the field through the Properties window of the layout), the flag turns yellow. The user can hover the mouse pointer over the flag to see the message as a tooltip.

Note: When a planning system is used and that system also sends out a trigger for the flag, the custom use of the flag is overruled and the flag will appear red.

Flags in the Publication Overview

Figure: Flags for a layout in the Publication Overview Application: the default red flag (left) and a custom yellow flag (right).

Configuration is done through the ContentStationCustomFlagField option.

For more information, see Adding a custom use to the Publication Overview flag.

Changes

No changes have been made for this release of Content Station.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-3224 Management Console: Green check mark does not display on successful save of custom channel.

CSH-5324 Log-out action is not working when a Digital article (template) or Print article is opened.

Installation

Content Station 11.8 build 181

Release date: 22 March 2018

Content Station version: 11.8 build 181

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 95

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Print variants: Automatically changing metadata when creating a print variant

Note: This feature also requires Enterprise Server 10.4.0 (or higher). This version is scheduled to be released in a few weeks.

When a print variant is created, it is now possible to automatically change specific metadata fields of the Digital article and/or the created Print article. This makes it possible to change the name, set the status, set the author, add a comment, and so on.

Configuration is done through the following options in the configuration file of the Content Station Server plug-in and can be made specific to certain Brands only:

  • CS_SOURCE_METADATA_OVERRIDE. Use this option to change the metadata of the Digital article.
  • CS_VARIANT_METADATA_OVERRIDE. Use this option to change the metadata of the print variant.

For more information, see Creating a print variant of a Digital article in Content Station Aurora - configuration.

Digital editor: SDK for text manipulation

An SDK for the Digital editor is now available which can be used in external plug-in javascript files to manipulate text in the editor. The following actions can be performed:

  • Get text
  • Select text
  • Replace text
  • Insert text

For more information, see the following file:

  • <Content Station installation folder>/sdk/digital-editor-sdk.md

Changes

The following change has been made for this release of Content Station:

  • Publication Overview Application: Navigating to the next or previous page now includes all pages of the Issue and not just the pages of the layout that was accessed.
  • Search result Filter. It is now possible to select multiple file types by Cmd/Ctrl-clicking additional types.
  • Search results. When viewing search results in list view mode, the column headers can now be clicked to sort the content of the columns.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-2361 Empty tags in multi-list and multi-string property fields.

CSH-2753 Required metadata missing when uploading file.

CSH-2972 It should be possible to select multiple file types in the Filter.

CSH-3219 Issue panel not displaying the full Issue name.

CSH-3259 Checking-in files with drag and drop fails when Content Station Desktop app is running.

CSH-3329 The 'en space' cannot be selected in a Conversion Rule.

CSH-3345 Sort list views by clicking the column header.

CSH-3485 Conversion Rule cannot be saved when a space is used at the end of the name of a paragraph style.

CSH-3964 Interactive Component; Left-align the "Edit" button.

CSH-4146 Fit to screen remembers previous value after resizing the screen.

CSH-4916 Print component list in Conversion Rule only shows 20 entries.

CSH-4920 Type property should be included when updating the status.

Installation

Content Station 11.7 build 180

Release date: 7 March 2018

Content Station version: 11.7 build 180

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 92

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Creating a print variant of a Digital article: support for 'Next paragraph style'

When a print variant is created from a Digital article and the layout on which the article is placed contains paragraphs in which a Next Style defined, then this Next Style is used.

Example: A Digital article containing 4 'body' components is placed on a layout. The Conversion Rule that is used defines that the text of the component is styled with paragraph style 'A'.

In the paragraph style on the layout, paragraph style 'A' is set up to use style 'B' as the next style. In turn, paragraph style 'B' is set up to use style 'A' as the next style.

The components are styled as follows:

  • Component 1 is styled with paragraph style 'A'
  • Component 2 is styled with paragraph style 'B'
  • Component 3 is styled with paragraph style 'A'
  • Component 4 is styled with paragraph style 'B'

Note: The behavior described above only works if there is no separator configured in the Conversion Rule. When a separator is used, the second body will still use the paragraph style of the first body because the content will be added to the first paragraph.

Publication Overview: Adding custom integrations

Custom integrations can be added to the Publication Overview in the form of actions in the menu located at the top right of the Publication Overview (the triple dot button). Creating sub-menus is also supported.

Actions and sub-actions can have an icon and/or a label and can be separated by a line.

To help you create your own customizations, an SDK and sample files are available in the following location:

Content Station folder > sdk

The following files are relevant to creating customizations:

  • po-ui-sdk.md. The SDK describing the available options that can be implemented in the Publication Overview.

  • samples. Folder containing some example plug-ins. See the SDK for more information.

For more information, see:

Changes

  • Digital editor: The URL property of the social components in the component properties is made read-only.
  • Integrations: A uniform way for configuring the path to the custom integrations has been implemented: it is no longer needed to prefix Print editor plug-ins with ../ .

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-2532 When a Dossier is created with a name that already exists, the dialog should not close.

CSH-3021 Incomplete message shown when user is not allowed to use Publication Overview.

CSH-3214 Custom Search not working correctly.

CSH-3344 Column label header of icons columns should be hidden.

Installation

Content Station 11.6 build 174

Release date: 21 February 2018

Content Station version: 11.6 build 174

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 91

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Digital editor: Using Interactive components

An Interactive component is a new type of component that can be used for creating a Story using the Digital editor.

It displays content that is hosted on the Internet somewhere, such as a Google Map, a video, a poll, a quiz, and so on, and also allows this content to be customized in the Digital editor.

Example: A basic Google Map could be made available to which one or more locations can be added, the map settings changed, and so on.

Interactive components are managed in Enterprise Server and can be made available for all Brands or for specific Brands only. They appear in the Component selector as part of the 'Interactive' tab.

Interactive components

When adding the component, a basic view of the content is shown.

Adding a Google Map

Customizing the content is done in a pop-over.

Editing a Google Map

When done, the changes are displayed and stored in the article.

An edited Google Map

For more information, see:

Digital editor: Adding custom integrations

Custom integrations can be added to the Digital editor to make functionality such as the following possible:

  • Custom previews
  • Dialogs showing Web CMS metadata and/or related content
  • A menu bar containing options that trigger specific functionality
  • Getting the article content in JSON format

To help you create your own customizations, an SDK and sample files are available in the following location:

Content Station folder > sdk

The following files are relevant to creating customizations:

  • digital-editor-sdk.md. The SDK describing the available options that can be implemented in the Digital editor.

  • samples. Folder containing some example plug-ins. See the SDK for more information.

For more information, see:

Digital editor: Turning selected text into subscript or superscript

Using the Editing tools that appear when selecting text in the Digital editor, text can now be turned into subscript or superscript.

When creating a print variant of the Digital article, the subscript and superscript is also included.

Changes

The following change has been made for this release of Content Station:

  • Storing settings. User interface settings and Custom Searches are now stored on Enterprise server instead of in the Web browser cache.

Note: This requires Enterprise server 10.3 or higher.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Digital articles: embedded Twitter post does not display correctly in the Digital editor when using Firefox.
  • Digital articles: Facebook posts do not appear in the Digital editor when using Content Station in Internet Explorer or Edge. In the published version of the article the posts do appear in these Web browsers.
  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-3157 Health Check of Content Station Server plug-in in Enterprise Server raises error when running Content Station test without being logged in to Admin UI.

CSH-3209 Environment goes into broken state when uploading Digital article templates when the server plug-in is disabled.

CSH-3219 Issue name not displayed in full in the Issue panel.

CSH-3228 Layout containing different Editions shows error in Publication overview full screen mode.

CSH-3335 Character count in Digital editor should include a space.

WR-964 Publishing fails without warning when invalid social media URL is used.

Installation

Content Station 11.5 build 171

Release date: 8 February 2018

Content Station version: 11.5 build 171

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 90

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Digital editor: creating Styles and applying them to a Story

Creating a Digital article is done by basing it on a template. This template contains a Style that controls the look and feel of how you want the content to look.

It is now possible to control this by creating custom Styles and applying them to a Story. This can be used to bring it in line with your house style or to match it with the channel that the article is going to be published to. It also has the effect of turning the editor in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor because the user will have better idea of how the end result will look. The user can also easily switch between styles while working on the article.

Creating a new Style is done by basing it on an existing Style and to then modify the CSS code for it. Creating, editing and applying Styles is done in the new Look and Feel panel.

The Look and Feel panel

Figure: Creating, editing and applying Styles is done in the Look and Feel panel.

Editing a Style

Figure: Editing the CSS code of a Style.

For more information, see:

Digital editor: creating and applying a Style variant to a component

As part of creating a Style (see above), it is also possible to create Style variants.

A Style variant is a collection of style settings that are stored for repeated use. They are used for quickly styling a component.

Using a Style variant has the following benefits:

  • The same style can be applied whenever and wherever it is needed.
  • The style is defined through CSS and therefore very customizable.
  • The style can be quickly and efficiently applied by the user

Applying a Style variant to a component is done in the Properties panel for that component.

Choosing a Style variant

For more information, see:

Digital editor: Access Right added for managing styling

Allowing or denying a user to create or edit Styles (see above) can be done through the following Access Right:

Digital Styling > Manage Styling

For more information, see Access Rights in Enterprise 10.

Creating a print variant: adding text before, text after, a separator and character styling

When a print variant of a Digital article is created by placing the Digital article on a layout, the following processes can now automatically take place:

  • Inserting text before / Inserting text after. Text can be added before or after the text that is in the component when the component is placed on the layout.

Use this to automatically add often occurring text. This way, users do not have to add this themselves, thereby making this process more efficient and less error prone.

Examples: The 'author/name' component can be used as a byline with additional text:

  • Digital component: author/name
  • Mapped with print component: byline
  • Text before: From our correspondent (followed by a space)
  • Result: From our correspondent Rob Smart

Or:

  • Digital component: author/name
  • Mapped with Print component: byline
  • Text after: - Enterprise correspondent
  • Result: Rob Smart - Enterprise correspondent
  • Separator. A separator can be used for separating multiple Digital components when they are combined into the same Print component.

Options to choose from include a paragraph return and various types of spaces such as em space, thin space, figure space, and so on.

Example: The 'author/name' and 'author/location' components can be used as a byline with additional text (assumed here is that byline components are combined when placed):

  • Digital component: author/name
  • Mapped with print component: byline
  • Text before: From our correspondent (followed by a space)
  • Separator: Paragraph return
  • Digital component: author/location
  • Mapped with Print component: byline

Result:

From our correspondent Rob Smart

Amsterdam
  • Bold, italic, bold/italic. Text that is styled in the component as bold, italic or bold/italic can now have a specific character style applied.

These definitions are controlled in the newly added Advanced options of a Conversion Rule.

Advanced Conversion Rule options

For more information, see Creating a print variant of a Digital article in Content Station Aurora - configuration.

Changes

No changes have been made for this release of Content Station.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Digital articles: embedded Twitter post does not display correctly in the Digital editor.
  • Digital articles: Facebook posts do not appear in the Digital editor when using Content Station in Internet Explorer or Edge. In the published version of the article the posts do appear in these Web browsers.
  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-2882 'Name' and 'Publish In' fields revert changes after the ''Category' field is modified.

CSH-3207 Show Article templates from other Brands when opening the Create New dialog from a Dossier and the current Brand does not have Digital article templates configured.

Installation

Content Station 11.4 build 167

Release date: 25 January 2018

Content Station version: 11.4 build 166

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 89

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Digital articles: Support for including a Facebook post

When adding a Social media component to a Digital article, it is now also possible to add a link to a Facebook post.

The Add social media component window

A Facebook post embedded in a story

Figure: A Facebook post embedded in a story.

For more information, see the components of a Digital article.

Digital editor: paragraph, word and character count is now shown

Knowing how many paragraphs, words and characters an article contains is essential for a writer. This was already shown in the Print editor and is now also indicated in the status bar of the Digital editor.

The Main text count

Note: The calculation is done only for components that are considered to be part of the main text. In Content Station 11.4, these include 'Body' text components only. Other components which also contain text but which are not considered to be part of the main text, such as image captions, quotes, the author component, and so on, are excluded.

Changes

The following change has been made for this release of Content Station:

  • Publication Overview performance improvement. In previous versions of Content Station, the Publication Overview instructed Enterprise Server to clean up the page thumbnails that are stored in the File Transfer folder when a specific action was performed. The downside of this process was that it had to wait for this task to be completed before it could continue, thereby possibly resulting in slow performance. This action has therefore been removed from Content Station.

To make sure now that the File Transfer folder is regularly cleaned up, it is recommended to make sure that the Enterprise Server Job named TransferServerCleanUp is scheduled. For more information, see Working with Enterprise Server Jobs.

  • Publication Overview: sharing URLs. The URL of the Publication Overview now also includes the Filter parameters. This makes it possible to easily bookmark the URL for re-use, or share the URL with other users.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Digital articles: embedded Twitter post does not display correctly in the Digital editor.
  • Digital articles: Facebook posts do not appear in the Digital editor when using Content Station in Internet Explorer or Edge. In the published version of the article the posts do appear in these Web browsers.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-3071 Dossier can still be created even when user has no Access Right for it.

CSH-3175 Conversion Rules are created for Brands for which a user does not have access.

CSH-3196 Digital article templates are not upgraded to version 2.0 when user does not have access to the Brand.

CSH-3201 Value of Elvis boolean field not correctly shown in the Properties panel.

CSH-3215 Session in one tab expires session in other tabs.

PO-211 Internet Explorer 11 sometimes fails to load the Publication Overview on initial load.

PO-233 Publication Overview is sluggish.

PO-234 Publication Overview page not shown correctly when an Issue with many pages is loaded.

WR-923 Using Content Station on Windows in Chrome with Polish keyboard, Alt+ A acts as Ctrl+A.

Installation

Content Station 11.3 build 163

Release date: 12 January 2018

Content Station version: 11.3 build 163

Content Station Server plug-in version: build xx

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to this release of Content Station:

Using Custom Searches: creating and storing often used search criteria for repeated use

When regularly looking for one or more files based on the same set of criteria, a Custom Search can now be created and stored for repeated use. This way, users can quickly run the search without having to enter the criteria each time.

Custom Searches can be created and accessed from the list in the Search box. They can also be shared with other users.

Criteria for finding recently modified articles

Figure: Setting up a Custom Search.

A Custom Search added to the list

Figure: Custom Searches (here named 'Recently modified articles') can be accessed from the Search box.

For detailed information, see Using Custom Searches.

Digital editor: components for embedding social media and online videos

Dedicated components are now available for adding social media content and videos from an online hosting platform.

These components can be found in the Media components tab:

Media components

An embedded YouTube video

Figure: A YouTube video embedded in a story.

An embedded Tweet

Figure: A Tweet embedded in a story.

Note: For social media, currently Twitter and Instagram are supported. For video, YouTube is supported.

For more information, see the components of a Digital article.

Publication Overview: opening all Dossiers for a layout

All Dossiers that a layout is part of can now be opened in a new Browser tab by Alt+double-clicking the layout.

API for creating Digital articles

Digital articles and article templates can now also be created through an API. For more information, see Creating Digital articles using the API of Enterprise Aurora.

Note: Documentation describing the JSON Digital article format will follow next week.

Changes

The following changes have been made for this release of Content Station:

  • Publication Overview: duplicate pages. The existence of duplicate pages was in previous versions indicated by a small icon below the page preview. This icon has now been removed and replaced by a red bar at the bottom of the thumbnail to more clearly indicate that a conflict exists for that page.

Also, the page numbers for which duplicate pages exist are shown at the top of the page. When clicking a page number, the Duplicate Pages panel will open showing all layouts that have that page number assigned.

Duplicate pages

Figure: When duplicate pages exist, this is now more clearly indicated by the affected page numbers at the top of the page (A) and a red bar at the bottom of the thumbnail (B).

  • Publication Overview: minimum thumbnail size. The minimum size that can be set for thumbnails by using the slider at the top of the page has been reduced.
  • Access Right for Local style overrides. The following component properties are now also restricted by the Access Right Digital Styling > Local style overrides:
  • Character Spacing
  • Line Spacing
  • Drop cap
  • Text alignment

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies this release of Content Station:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for this release of Content Station:

  • Saving a layout while previewing the layout in might result in an "Operation can not be executed" message when RabbitMQ is disabled.

  • Digital Article templates of the Brand for which a user does not have User Authorization are not getting upgraded to v2.0. Workaround: The system admin needs to give itself Brand admin access to the relevant Brands before doing the conversion of the article templates.

  • Conversion Rules are created for Brands for which the user does not have user authorization. Workaround: The system admin needs to give itself admin access to the relevant Brands in order to be able to create Conversion Rules for the Brand.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed for this release of Content Station:

CSH-3158 Temporary files created by the Content Station Server plug-in are not always removed from the Transfer Server Folder.

CSH-3161 Do not allow deleting Print article templates for which Conversion Rules exist.

CSH-3178 Issue Filter does not change after selecting a different Brand.

Installation

Content Station 11.2 build 160

Release date: 28 December 2017

Content Station version: 11.2 build 160

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 86

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.3 build 39

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to Content Station 11.2 build 160:

  • Improvements to the Publication Overview Application: On the Publication Overview page, the following has been added for each page:
  • The name of the layout
  • Icons that show different states:

The layout icons

Icon Description
Status

Workflow Status.

Indicates the color of the Workflow Status that is assigned to the layout.
Flag

Planning interface update. (Requires Content Station 11.2 or higher)

Indicates that an update from the planning interface is available. See the tooltip for the exact message.
Duplicate pages

Identical page numbers.

Indicates that pages exist that have the same page number.
Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes. (Requires Content Station 11.2 or higher)

When colored red: indicates that Sticky Notes are added and that at least one is not set to status 'Done' or 'Rejected' (and therefore needs attention).

When colored green: indicates that Sticky Notes are added and that they are all set to status 'Done' or 'Rejected'.
PDF

PDF download. (Requires Content Station 11.2 or higher)

Indicates that a PDF of the page is available for download. Click the icon to download the PDF.

For more information about working with the Publication Overview Application, see Using the Publication Overview Application.

Changes

No changes have been made for the release of Content Station 11.2 build 160.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies the release for Content Station 11.2 build 160:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for Content Station 11.2 build 160:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

  • The Publication Overview sometimes fails to load for the first time when opening it in Internet Explorer 11.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed for Content Station 11.2 build 160:

CSH-1638 Send to Next Status for checked-out files produces contradictory messages.

CSH-2719 Date-time list in Copy To dialog misses mandatory notification when left empty.

CSH-3027 Improve the color schema of list view.

CSH-3092 Title of Linked Files panel overlaps the Open in New Tab label when German is used.

CSH-3100 Context menu and default context menu are shown at the same time.

CSH-3137 User interface of "Add swatch" button is incorrect for German language.

CSH-3139 Brand filter not fully visible when Brand names get too long.

CSH-3157 Health Check of Content Station Server plug-in raises error when running Content Station test without being logged in to Admin User Interface.

CSH-3159 Show warning when opening a layout and the server name is not configured in config.js.

PO-210 InDesign layout names are not shown in Publication Overview.

PO-183 Publication Overview: Issue panel not displaying the full Issue name.

WR-930 Failed to discard the changes of a Print article when having insufficient access rights and ContentStationDisableEditorAutoSave is enabled.

WR-896 Failed to save article name when changing it and then clicking the Check In button.

Installation

Content Station 11.1 build 158

Release date: 13 December 2017

Content Station version: 11.1 build 158

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 85

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.2.2 build 32

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following feature has been added to Content Station 11.1 build 158:

  • Digital editor: Access Right for controlling if local styling can be applied. An Access Right is now available with which you can control if a user should be able to apply local styling to text in the Digital editor by using the editing tools that appear when text is selected.

The editing tools in the Digital editor

Figure: The editing tools in the Digital editor.

This affects the following styling:

  • Drop shadow
  • Font size
  • Font color

Note: Bold, italic, strikethrough, underlined, uppercase and lower case are always allowed to be applied or cleared because these styles are used to for example emphasize text.

Disable this option when pure channel-neutral articles need to be created and users should be prevented from applying local styling.

For more information about Access Rights, see Access Rights in Enterprise 10.

Changes

No changes have been made for the release of Content Station 11.1 build 158.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies the release for Content Station 11.1 build 158:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for Content Station 11.1 build 158:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

  • The Publication Overview sometimes fails to load for the first time when opening it in Internet Explorer 11.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed for Content Station 11.1 build 158:

CSH-3105 Creating a print variant: not possible to filter Category on empty value.

CSH-3107 Unable to select a Dossier in the Copy To window.

CSH-3109 Creating a print variant: all components added below a Container component are not included in the print variant.

CSH-3110 Creating a print variant: the Price field of a Product component is not included.

CSH-3111 User interface errors in the Digital editor when German language is selected.

CSH-3118 Creating a print variant: component fields are in the incorrect order after placing a digital article on a layout.

CSH-3119 Creating a print variant: non-placed images are not placed on the pasteboard when the feature is configured directly in the config.php file.

Installation

Content Station 11.0 build 157

Release date: 29 November 2017

Content Station version: 11.0 build 157

Content Station Server plug-in version: build 84

Content Station Desktop App version: 2.1.0 build 31

Content Station Desktop App - Chrome extension: 1.0 build 15

Downloads

New features

Changes

Documentation

Known issues

Fixed issues

Installation

Content Station Aurora offers the next step in multichannel publishing by making it possible to create channel-neutral content that can be easily re-used in digital and print channels.

Downloads

The download files for Content Station Aurora can be found in the Release announcement.

New features

The following features have been added to Content Station 11.0 build 157:

Creating content for print or channel-neutral content for digital and print channels

Using Content Station Aurora, two types of content can be created:

  1. Content specifically for print. This is done using the Print editor and the Print article file format.
  1. Channel-neutral content for output to digital and print channels. This is done using the Digital editor using the Digital article file format. This format can only be opened in the Digital editor of Content Station, not in InDesign or InCopy. Digital channels that are available to publish to are Adobe AEM, Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles or any custom channel.

For more information, see Available article editors in Content Station Aurora.

The Digital editor

Figure: The Digital editor is used for creating channel-neutral content for output to digital and print channels.

An article highlighted in the Preview window

Figure: The Print editor is used for creating content specifically for output to print.

Content Station Aurora Editions and licenses

Content Station Aurora is available in 2 Editions:

  1. Content Station print. As far as creating content is concerned, this version only contains the Print editor for creating content specifically for output to print.
  1. Content Station multichannel. As far as creating content is concerned, this version contains the Print editor for creating content specifically for output to print, as well as the Digital editor for creating channel-neutral content for output to digital and print channels.

Each Edition requires a different license. Users will have to choose the Edition to use when logging in to Content Station.

For a full overview of the differences in features, see Content Station Aurora Editions.

Creating a print variant from a Digital article

In a 'digital first' workflow in Content Station, stories are first published to one or more digital output channels such as Adobe AEM, Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles or a custom channel such as a Web CMS.

This is done by creating and publishing a Digital article using the Digital editor.

Next, these stories might be re-used in a print publication such as tomorrow's newspaper or next month's magazine.

To re-use a Digital article in a print workflow, a print variant of the Digital article can be created which is optimized for a print environment.

The process of creating a print variant consists of the following actions:

  • A print variant is created in the form of a Print article
  • The Print article is subsequently placed on a layout

Creating a print variant can be done by placing it on a layout that already exists (typically done from within the Publication Overview application), or by placing it on a new layout.

For more information, see the following articles:

Access Rights for controlling Digital editor features

The following Access Rights have been added to Enterprise Server 10.2 for use in Content Station Aurora:

Group Access Right Description
Workflow Create Digital article templates Allows a user to create and edit Digital article templates.
Workflow Publish Allows a user to publish Digital articles from the Digital editor.
Digital Styling Local style overrides

Reserved for future use.

Note: The group named 'Digital Styling' is new to Enterprise Server 10.2.

For more information about Access Rights, see Access Rights in Enterprise 10.

Publication Overview: context menu for layouts

Layouts in the Publication Overview application can now be right-clicked to access their context menu.

Requirements

To use Content Station Aurora, the following needs to be installed:

  • Enterprise Server:
  • Multichannel Edition: Enterprise Server 10.2 or higher
  • Print Edition: Enterprise Server 10.0, 10.1 or 10.2
  • Smart Connection:
  • Users of Smart Connection for Adobe CC 2017 should install Smart Connection version 12.0.0 build 7 (Quick Patch) or higher. This fixes some issues related to the print variant feature of Content Station Aurora.

Documentation

The following documentation accompanies the release for Content Station 11.0:

Known issues

The following known issues exist for Content Station 11.0 build 157:

  • Layouts: Saving a layout while previewing the layout in Content Station might result in an error, "Operation cannot be executed" if RabbitMQ is disabled.

  • When creating a print variant, the order of the components is not correctly respected (planned for next release).
  • When creating a print variant, components that are positioned below a Container component are not included.
  • The Publication Overview sometimes fails to load for the first time when opening it in Internet Explorer 11.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed for Content Station 11.0 build 157:

CSH-2795 List view does not end.

PO-205 Duplicate pages panel always expands when selecting page.

WR-893 Article name still editable when Article state is blocked.

Installation

For information about installing Content Station Aurora, see Content Station Aurora full installation.

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