brix:papilio 7.0 – New Release
by Roland Kannappel
13. June 2019 5 minutes
Features for all users
- Additional columns with order information can be selected in the list of orders. Each user can configure the view individually — with relevant information about an order.
- Post-rendering is now possible during the ordering process in order to comply with the various PDF standards of print service providers. The authorized user can choose between different rendering profiles.
- A file with additional information can now be attached to an order.
- In fields with predefined texts (fixed texts), an option can now be activated that still allows parts of the text within curly brackets to be edited .
![Individual texts](/assets/content/images/news/Individuelle-Texte.jpg)
![Rendering Profiles](/assets/content/images/news/Renderprofile_2.jpg)
Features for graphics and layout
Text style editing
- More flexible setting of line color (underlined, strikethrough), text highlighter and space spacing (for justification), as well as selection of an alternative fill color
- Design of table-like text blocks with tabs including alignment (left-aligned, center-aligned or right-aligned) and distance (relative or absolute) to the next tab
![Text Style Tabs](/assets/content/images/news/Textstil-Tabulatoren_2.jpg)
Element style editing
- Empty text elements can be excluded from rendering (thus the whole block disappears).
- Scaling for the minimum font size can be set globally or locally.
- Setting the blend mode of an element (which allows more advanced crossfading effects / transparencies)
![Element Style Multiply](/assets/content/images/news/Elementstil-Mischmodus_2.jpg)
Further optimizations
- It is now possible with the «unused» filter to display unused elements.
- The text group editing now allows an extended selection of inline element types.
- An image focus can now be set (e.g. with the brix CELUM Extension Focal Point Setter) to prevent important parts of an image from being cut off by the fitting method.
- The layouter can now create his own render profiles that can be assigned to the templates. The user can select his preferred render profile when ordering (see above).
![Text group editing](/assets/content/images/news/Textgruppenbearbeitung_2.jpg)
Features for administrators
- In order to manage multilingual labels more efficiently, a new menu has been created to display all terms and their translations. The terms can be edited directly in the table by clicking on them. In addition, a separate authorization allows a translator, for example, to access only this area so that he can translate all terms.
- The administration of user groups has been made more user-friendly and the user used to create example publications can now be overridden for each user group.
- In the user administration, several users can now be selected (with Shift or Ctrl) for which the same action is to be performed. When creating a new user, the initial rights of the active (group) administrator are inherited.
- Group administrators can now also view the statistics, depending on their permissions and the areas assigned to them.
- Linked templates can now also be cloned in the template administration.
- When editing elements, a direct connection (for 1-to-1 related values) can optionally be set now. This makes it easier to create subordinate values that are controlled by a relation.
![Multilingual Inscriptions](/assets/content/images/news/Mehrsprachige_Beschriftungen.jpg)
![User Groups Authorizations](/assets/content/images/news/Benutzergruppen_Berechtigungen.jpg)
![Element Editing Relation](/assets/content/images/news/Elementbearbeitung_Relation.jpg)
Module updates
- The CELUM Connector is now compatible with CELUM 5+ and supports the new CELUM DAM information fields. The new papilio:connect module is available in CELUM to enable direct access to brix:papilio from CELUM DAM without having to leave the DAM system.
- The Single Sign-on module now supports SAML 2.0 in order to log on to brix:papilio with SSO. In addition to the usual SAML parameters, the import behavior can also be configured so that, for example, group membership can be transferred to the user.
- In the extended statistics analyses module, the pivot table has been extended to 9 dimensions in order to be able to compile in-depth analyses.
![CELUM DAM papilio connect](/assets/content/images/news/CELUM-DAM-papilio-connect.jpg)
![Pivot Dimensionen](/assets/content/images/news/Pivot-Dimensionen.jpg)
Technical improvements
- The rendered PDF of a completed order can be reused in another template to create a publication.
- Any text content (based on its ID) can be obtained from external sources and used in the orders. This eliminates the need to synchronize such data with brix:papilio. They can be queried live from the external system.
- The traceability of e-mail messages is guaranteed.