Removed Domain Menu from Open by Status for Local Users: Due to some unforeseen behaviors with closing inactive documents in Local mode, the Domain menu is now limited to Non-Distributed Production users and those in Remote mode. (INDESIGN-3996)

Important bug fix for Multi-Domain sites: Our Quality Assurance team found that if multiple documents are open from multiple domains that it is possible to click the document close icon (an x in the document's tab) and the document will attempt to close without switching to the document's domain. For many sites that share document storage, this isn't a problem. But for Distributed Production sites this can cause the upload to fail because it would want to upload to the wrong domain and the naming convention might not match. (INDESIGN-3996)

Important bug fix for Multi-Domain sites: A prior version of the client broke the ability of the BLOX Total CMS client for Adobe InDesign to switch domains when switching documents. This has been fixed. (INDESIGN-3996)

New Advertising support feature: We are excited to announce a new feature in Adobe Creative Cloud that allows users to update unplaced advertising paths in BLOX Total CMS. This feature, located at "BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Advertising > Update Unplaced Paths", can be useful in situations where advertising paths have changed or were not available when an edition was created. It can also be helpful when an edition is built in the wrong domain and each domain has unique paths for ads.

While there are alternative ways to resolve some of these issues, this feature provides a simpler and more direct solution. It allows users to delete ad placeholder frames and rebuild them using current paths, which ensures that the paths are correct. Before using this feature, it is important to verify that the paths are correct for the user's needs. (INDESIGN-2142)

Modified process for Distributed Production document creation: When logged in as a Remote Distributed Production user, the document is automatically closed, checked in, and then re-opened immediately after using the "BLOX Total CMS > Documents > New." This prevents another user from creating the same page. Other modes don't need this because the documents are created in shared storage, but Remote users create on their own workstations. (INDESIGN-3660)

Improvement for Advertising Percentage: When calculating the page's Advertising Percentage, the calculations now incorporate the top text wrap value into the ad's height. Thus, if you had a 9 point top text wrap and the ad was 3" tall, the height of the ad would be considered 3.125" or 225 points. And then the percentage of the page occupied by ads will take this extra height into consideration since it truly affects how much space remains for editorial. Currently you can view the Advertising Percentage via "BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Advertising > Display Total Ad Depth per Page" if the necessary options are turned on in Page Tracker's Application Settings as shown below. Note: For the most accurate measurement, the top text wrap should match the internal spacing between ads according to your ad layout system. (INDESIGN-3745)

Important Ad Statuses fix for Distributed Production sites: In some edge cases Ads were not populating on some Remote Distributed Production pages. The issue was caused by some of the internal functions that check for AdInfo for uses besides ads such as Page Content Type and Page Color. Those functions weren't checking for Page Tracker when Distributed Production was enabled but not active. And the result was that Page Content Type or Color of Page could overwrite the ads themselves. As best we know, this was only reproducible when a Normal user created the edition, but did not check in the pages, and then a Remote user created an individual page. In that case, the Ads would be unknown. This has been fixed. (INDESIGN-3989)

New Automatic Date Range Folio Text Variable: There is a new Folio Text Variable R that is publication schedule aware. For example, if you print on Monday and Friday, the R value from Monday would be a date range from Monday-Thursday. On Friday it would be a Friday-Sunday date range. This is all automatic if the dates are configured in the publication settings in the browser interface. On non-publication days the R value will have the single publication date matching what the F text variable uses. (INDESIGN-3997)

Partial support for case sensitive ad naming: BLOX Digital staff can now turn on a feature that supports searching for ad files using a capitalized .PDF file extension in addition to the default lowercase .pdf. In most file severs, the two are equivalent. But some servers allow their drives to be case sensitive and on such a server an ad image file of 123.pdf is a different file from 123.PDF. Since we assume case insensitive, we sort for the default lowercase version. But on this one site's severs, it won't find an add file named with a .PDF (uppercase) file extension. If you need this support, please file a support ticket and the BLOX Total CMS team can enable it. Note, this is only full uppercase .PDF. The new feature will not help with mixed cases like .PDF. (INDESIGN-4007)

Asset Manager sorting by Modify Time: Results in the Asset Manager can now be sorted by the time of last update. This is useful if you are trying to locate assets that either were just recently updated on deadline. (INDESIGN-1734)

Asset Manager can show number of sibling assets: Using the Asset Manager's Preferences tab, users can now activate the display of a count of sibling assets in both the Search Results and the Asset Preview. This was added because the number of sibling assets can be used to modify the Asset Placement Score when using Automated Production. (INDESIGN-3450)

macOS 12.x or newer and Adobe InCopy UI helper: Like Adobe InDesign with macOS version 12.x or newer, Adobe InCopy has a bug with properly handling menu operation until a file is opened. To combat this, we now include a small Adobe InCopy file which is opened and closed when the user logs in. (INDESIGN-3956)

Major change to Open by Status: The Open by Status dialog now contains the option of switching domains as shown in the image below. This is useful for all sites with multiple domains as it allows for faster method of locating and opening documents without the distraction of documents from other domains. (INDESIGN-3996)

Creative Suite users no longer have access to Open by Status: Due to a compatibility issue with the decade old Creative Suite versions, the Open by Status option has been removed for Creative Suite users. (INDESIGN-3957)

We now log when a user chooses Check Out All: Check Out All causes performance degradation for the active user and the entire network. The option was added about a decade ago when assets needed to be checked out to cause the output functions to check them in to provide at that time the only way to modify asset workflow to force the assets to the final process to facilitate publishing for e-Editions. However, there is now other, more efficient methods of providing the push to the file workflow stage. We discourage users from using Check Out All. As such, we are now logging more clearly when it happens so we can present efficient alternatives when sites ask for support. (INDESIGN-3970)

Remote user Temporary File purging: When logging in as a Remote Distributed Production user, the BLOX Total CMS client for Adobe InDesign will attempt to purge the Temporary directory where distributed production items are sometimes stored. While macOS users tend to not accumulate these files, Windows users can have them fill the drive, according to reports we've gotten. So now, each Remote Installation launch of Adobe InDesign where the user logs in as a Distributed Production remote user will attempt to remove up to 10% of the files in the temporary directory that are older than 30 days. Because of this, the first several launches of this version could be slightly slower. (INDESIGN-3979)

Fix for setting Page View during Document Check In: The prior version of the client forces the page view prior to checking in. That could only happen when the document was visible and certain functions in the client use invisible documents. For example, the Create Pages process. So, during those times, we won't force the view of the page. (INDESIGN-3982)

macOS UI workaround extended to macOS 13.x and newer: While the original macOS version 13 didn't have the prior UI problems with menu items, version 13.1 reinstated that behavior. We've changed the client to now use the osWorkaround documents for InDesign versions 2021-2023 and macOS 12.x through 14.x. (INDESIGN-3995)

Language translation fix for mismatched domains dialog: A site was transitioning from staging sites to live domains and encountered the built-in function for domain change. Unfortunately, that rarely needed function was missing access to the language translation features. This has been fixed. (INDESIGN-3992)

Distributed Production ad statuses fix: The Ad Statuses dialog did not re-open upon the same user rebuilding the same edition during the same log in. We believe this issue has been resolved. (INDESIGN-3987)

Distributed Production workaround: macOS Distributed Production users in Local mode were occasionally getting prompted that they had a document open when they tried to open one which had been edited remotely. This has been worked around by no longer doing a check to see if the user can open the out of date local copy. It is now extremely important that no user at a Distributed Production site use a method to open BLOX Total CMS pages other than the Open by Status dialog. (INDESIGN-3985)

Change for all sites with Distributed Production enabled: To help prevent Local Distributed Production users from overwriting edits to pages made by Normal users (and vice versa) we are now forcing the use of the Open by Status dialog and have removed access to the following menu options at all domains where Distributed Production is enabled. (INDESIGN-3985)

• BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Open...
• BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Open Nearby >
• BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Open from BLOX Total CMS >
• File > Open Recent >
• File > Open BLOX Total CMS Document...

Prior Version

The release notes for client version 5.64 can be found here.