HIGHLIGHTS in version 2.4

Build 1501 on 14/Nov/2017  This topic last edited on: 28/Oct/2016, at 11:45

User interface

GN4-4559        Clients: color themes support

Content handling

GN4-4501I4: add blind text and personal notes in article designer, See Manage blind text and personal notes in i4.
GN4-93You can compare text versions. See Comparing text versions.
GN4-2261A quick way to add all the suggestions to content keywords, by clicking a button. See Auto-suggestions for keywords.
GN4-3827Keywords search using autoComplete search control in i4. See Keywords search using autoComplete search control.
GN4-4410All: implement AutoComplete in categories. See: Category search using autoComplete.
GN4-4278GN4: enable image rating metadata to be imported, stored and used in Fred and i4. See Importing graphics rating.

Digital production

GN4-3843 and GN4-4324 - Multicrop is enhanced in clients and in i4.

GN4-4392You can publish a mediagallery directly, without assigning it to an article first.
GN4-4359Improved the Facebook publishing template.
GN4-3797GNWeb is compatible with Kentico 9.
GN4-4470GN4 can read the statistics from VirtualCom. See Read stats from VirtualCom.

Paper production

GN4-4562Fred4: improved article new folder dialog on the Articles Copy dialog. See Move articles copies to another folder.

GN4-3989, GN4-4058: handle booklet for pages within an edition in Fred and in InDesign. See Editions and booklets, Pages and booklets, Configuring Booklets.

GN4-3816Now you can perform the image color correction on page. See Correcting Images on Page. Updated Area/Image Color palette.
GN4-4033Drag objects between tiled page tabs is supported. See Move objects by dragging.
GN4-4511New flexible custom shapes for H&B tool. See sysHB Object Library.
GN4-4512Number of enhancements in the automated page make-up. See Automated page make-up.
GN4-4120Improved the CopyPage procedure not to copy the ads layers and to merge the editorial layers. See Configure copy page to skip ads layers and to merge editorial layers.
GN4-4057Toggle alternate selection icon is now visibly toggled. See Alternate or content selection.
GN4-3665Improved quality of master thumbnails whose grid is now stored in LightGray color which avoids a mess with masters created by users who have different master grid color preferences.
GN4-4315New command to insert a fixed space as medium space. See Insert spaces (the paragraph 'Insert fixed space with the same width of the standard space (medium space)')
GN4-4231Fred4 now manages bleed margins.
GN4-3974Fred: frame labels show the frames ordinal number. See About frame order labels.
GN4-4032You can link/unlink articles also in TedExtra4.
GN4-4162In TedExtra4 you can crop/zoom/rotate images in page when in 'Plus' mode.
GN4-4175TedExtra4: set page designer panels read only
GN4-4209Improved the crop panel. See the 'Enhancements in GN4 version 2.4 or newer' paragraph in Crop and zoom palette.
GN4-4145Various improvements of the objects boxing dialog. Added new labels and a better control of the custom values..
GN4-203You can specify the thickness of the text outline. See outline.
GN4-4034You can drag masters between editions. See the 'By drag and drop' paragraph in Duplicate an existing master in another edition.
GN4-3952PrintPDF now supports the alpha channel for the print with CMYK/Grayscale rasterization.
GN4-4191Workflows: print pages from inside a workflow. See Printing from a workflow.
GN4-4439Workflows: add optional workstate to assign to the pages successfully printed. See Auto-set a page workstate after successful printing.

i4 (tablet e browser)

GN4-4183I4 admin: unlock dialog able to show sub objects to be unlocked.
GN4-4501Blind text and personal notes are available in i4. See Manage blind text and personal notes in i4.
GN4-3827Keywords search using autoComplete search control is available in i4.
GN4-2261A quick way to add all the suggestions to content keywords, clicking a button.
GN4-3700Now in clients and i4 you can merge a wire story with content (images) into an article.
GN4-3893Quick access to the products of a task via the budget listing.
GN4-3918You can add a task to a budget from the task search results.
GN4-2907I4 now manages the content read status. See Toggle read status in i4.
GN4-3912I4 now handles printing.
GN4-3930I4 article editor now displays the text height in the article status bar.
GN4-3928You can create an article with default elements in i4. See Define default elements for a new article.
GN4-4152The default typography and region are respected now when creating a new article in i4.
GN4-4151The symbol plugin is available in the default article editor. See Insert a symbol.
GN4-4229You can rename and re-order saved search list per user.
GN4-4094Multiple reference can be added to an article in a single operation. See Attach multiple images and video to an article.
GN4-3960The keyboard is supported now to navigate search result.

Speed

GN4-4112Ted4, Fred4: speed optimization loading formats and articles. Loading formats and articles (containing lot of tags) is faster.

Automation and tags

GN4-4155Workflows: implement the MessageDialog activity in clients.
GN4-3798i4: it should be possible to view the wordCount in template MultiLineString not only in edit mode.
GN4-3736Now the Send Email activity has a new property called 'Timeout' which accepts the number of seconds. The default is 100 seconds.
GN4-3070I4: Add a search tristate check box search control. See i4 and tristate checkbox control.
GN4-4083Ted4: writes command display substrings. See the writes tag description.
GN4-4246Fred: Designer scripts can be available also when the page designer is not in focus. Designer scripts available out-of-the-focus

Configuring

GN4-4200Client: configurations for user / groups, GN4-4199 - I4: configs for users / groups. See Groups/user level of user interface.
GN4-3945I4: manage user triggers in admin interface. Find the Triggers command on the row context menu.
GN4-4353I4, Clients: use user default measurement unit in directory styles. See Use default measurement in UI.

Other

GN4-2858Core: Inline picture are referenced by article and exportable in xml. See the 'About inline images and references' paragraph in the img tag description.
GN4-4275Licenses: added the licenses for Adobe Illustrator.
GN4-4327Client: better send dialog when multiple copyflows are defined. See Send dialog with many copyflows.
GN4-2519Core: limit growing of gn_AuditTable. See Improvements on cleanup of AuditTable.
GN4-1375Back4: limited cleanup log entries to 4096 characters.