Because this affects write-back, sites should test this release with the affected assets and scenarios. 

5.71.00-05 Released 2024.08.06

Returned functionality of Cut Overset to New Asset) A change in saving to PDF assets broke the ability to use BLOX Total CMS > Trimming > Cut overset to new Asset... That broken version was never released to the public. INDESIGN-4203

5.71.00-04 Released 2024.07.30

Write-back differences for PDF asset types) There are now two ways in BLOX to handle PDF assets. 1) The legacy PDF Asset type. 2) The File Asset, but with a PDF sub_type is made automatically when uploading a PDF to a File Asset. In BLOX, however, the Description fields of the two Asset Types are treated differently. The PDF Asset does NOT allow any Description formatting. The File Asset provides many of the standard formatting options. Unfortunately, within the BLOX Total CMS client, the two assets are treated the same - most of the time. Write-back can be handled via both the Check-in and the Save Content functionality. For both types of PDF assets, all Adobe InDesign or Adobe InCopy formatting is stripped from the Description field regardless of how the write-back is initiated. INDESIGN-2780

5.71.00-03 Released 2024.07.25

Bug Fix for write-back of URLs in lists) Additional corrections have been made to ensure proper write-back of lists with embedded URLs and trimmed text. To use this sites MUST modify their export ruleset to include options for handling the embedded Hyperlink style. For many years, it has been required to include special <wbr> tags in the Export Rulesets around <strong> or <em> tags. INDESIGN-4192

Since 2019 we’ve required that hyperlinks use a character style in order to ensure that the links can be maintained in Adobe InDesign due to a bug in Adobe InDesign. Unfortunately, we did not, at that time, request that the Export ruleset be modified to support that style in the same way as we documented the <em> and <strong> tags. That original documentation can be found here:

https://www.help.bloxdigital.com/blox_total_cms/technical_users/rulesets/configuring-write-back-of-list-items/article_2167c333-df87-5e32-ba96-b07297a47439.html

It is now required to include the character style for embedded links if you’re using them in either ordered lists or unordered lists. A sample of that is below:

5.71.00-02 Released 2024.07.19

Improvement for Write-back of Lists) Some additional changes were made to prevent strong and emphasis formatting in Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy from causing indents in subsequent parts of lists. INDESIGN-2911

5.71.00-01 Released 2024.06.06

Minor Change to Placing PDF assets) When PDF assets have a caption that includes a line break, it used to be that the line breaks never made it to Adobe InDesign or Adobe InCopy for translation. This has been changed and they will now be available. INDESIGN-2780

Change to PDF Write-back) PDF Assets or file-based assets with a PDF sub_type don’t accept any sort of HTML formatting. In addition, they don’t accept data from the normal field that BLOX Total CMS writes-back the content, so it has been changed. You should now see the content writing back from Adobe InDesign. INDESIGN-2780

List Write-Back Speed Improvement) We had a report that long documents of either ordered or unordered lists were exceptionally slow to write-back from Adobe InDesign or Adobe InCopy. Indeed as the length of the article asset increased, the time to write-back, or even to display the Save Content/Check In dialog, increased almost exponentially. This has been improved and the write-back of articles with ordered or unordered lists is significantly faster. In addition, the write-back of assets without lists will also be slightly faster. INDESIGN-2911

Write-back Change for Custom Paragraph Formatting) We had a site discover that if they placed an inline asset following a paragraph that used a paragraph style that wrote-back with custom notes for the paragraph style <!--p: that the write-back was mangled and the style would be lost. This has been corrected. As with all write-back changes, you should thoroughly test your translation and write-back ruleset to verify that all continues to function as intended. INDESIGN-4128

Bug Fix for write-back of URL in bullet list) A change has been made to the internal cleanup routines that aid the process of write-back of lists so that they can use hyperlinks successfully. Before this change, you might have noticed that hyperlinks that started a list item became a list indented a further level down. INDESIGN-4192

Preference to control logging during Write-back) The Logging tab of BLOX Total CMS > Settings and Support... now has a default to reduce the logging when any of the BLOX Total CMS client’s functionality needs to issue a call to the SaveAsset web service. Except for troubleshooting, there’s no need for a user to constantly log those details. INDESIGN-4240

Improved Write-back Speed) The write-back of assets should happen quicker because there is far less information logged. If, for some reason, you need the write-back process logged, the Logging tab of the Settings and Support dialog permits Detailed Write-back Logging. INDESIGN-4250

Write-back Change for Inline Assets following h tags) We had a site report they discovered that they could not place inline assets following heading tags (h1–h6) and have them live through the write-back from Adobe InCopy and Adobe InDesign. This has been corrected. As with all write-back changes, you should thoroughly check the write-back of assets with your unique rulesets. INDESIGN-4250

Prior Version

The release notes for client version 5.70 can be found here.