The Goal of Client Version 5.74
This should be a reasonably small release with additional features and improvements for Page Sharing, Automated Production, and Distributed Production.
5.74.00-08 released 2024.11.18
Support for Grouped Items with Branded Item Support Output) Client 5.73 added features to mark page items as Branded to allow them to be ignored during Page Sharing. Unfortunately, it was tested only with Page Tracker output methods or pages without groups. Groups caused infinite loops and Page Tracker output had been ignored. Both issues have been addressed. INDESIGN-4371
5.74.00-06 Released 2024.10.23
Prevent Incorrectly Defined Snippets From Generating Errors) A test domain had some snippets whose Page Locations were stored incorrectly during early development testing. Those incorrect definitions then triggered errors in the client code. We now check for those incorrect definitions and no errors are logged. Instead, the snippets are now configured to use the `Anywhere` location. INDESIGN-4350
5.74.00-05 Released 2024.10.21
Bug Fix for Jump Item Management) There was a bug dealing with downloading Jump Items from Page Tracker if those jump items had previously been removed. You will now be allowed to download via BLOX Total CMS > Development > Page Tracker Jump Item Management > Download Jump Items... INDESIGN-4290
Better Page Content Type Snippet Placement) There was a long-standing issue with opening multiple pages with applied Page Content Types during their first opening with Open by Status. Placing the Page Content Type snippets would only correctly position the snippet on the final opened page when opening multiple pages. The process has been changed and the snippets should be correctly placed on all opened pages. INDESIGN-4336
Automated Production now Requires Adobe InDesign version 2024 or Newer) With Adobe’s recent release of Adobe InDesign 2025 and the BLOX Total CMS Plug-in for Adobe InDesign’s Automated Production’s requirement for Adobe InDesign 2024, it is a natural requirement for that same version to be the minimum for Automated Production. In addition, since we expect the plug-in will be used for all snippet functions, the legacy snippet menus will be removed when Automated Production is enabled starting with client version 5.76. INDESIGN-4351
5.74.00-02 Released 2024.10.01
Distributed Production Create Edition Improvement) We had a Distributed Production site report that if they only built some of the sections of an edition using BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Layout > Create Edition using Edition file... and then later attempted to use the same edition file to build the remaining sections, it would remove the .adinfo from the original sections. The behavior has been changed and you can now safely build partial editions. Keep in mind, however, that you can alway build all the pages of the edition all the time. INDESIGN-4333
Auto Update Correction for Automated Production) The 5.72 version of the BLOX Total CMS client for Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy added a couple of new files to the codebase. Unfortunately, older versions of the client weren’t expecting those and complained via a dialog about them. Since new files are continually added to the code base as features and improvements are added, the visible warning will be removed. INDESIGN-4334
5.74.00-01 Released 2024.09.24
Related Content Change) We no longer allow non-print intended related content items from reaching the Adobe InDesign pages. If set to be included, you can view all the releated content items in the Asset Manager, but only those with a Print environment or both Web and Print can be placed on pages. INDESIGN-4319
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Change to Page Locks for Distributed Production) Account information in the BLOX Total CMS client for Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy is always in lower case. Page and Zip locking information in Page Tracker, however, is in the case that the account was added. Thus if the user account had uppercase characters like FLast@Domain.news then locks for open document might not be granted because the account didn’t match the client's lowercase version (flast@domain.news in this example). This has been corrected. INDESIGN-4331
Combining Pages for Distributed Production now closes additional open documents) To increase stability when using Distributed Production’s BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Page Management > Combine Pages..., if there are multiple documents open, all but the active document will be closed. INDESIGN-4331
Prior Version
The release notes for client version 5.73 can be found here.