TrafficXP

TrafficXP

Microsoft Windows XP

Software Updates

• Added support for Jazler Radio Star 2 automation system.
• Added support for Playbox Technology Air Box automation system.
• Off-Air Revenue now processes on the 15th instead of the 24th.
• Modified reports so that dates prior to the year 1793 are not allowed.

• We've had to reorganize some of the options, so please review your options by going into Administration->Group->Options. In other words, nothing has been "taken away", you just need to verify what you would like to keep enabled.
• If you are using NexGen, you will most likely need to make sure you've selected the Prophet NexGen variation under Administration->Stations->call letters->Files in order to continue using 4 digit cart numbers.

• Launched our community forums in December. If you haven't joined them, you really should. It's an incredible way to find out what's going on with the software, provide feedback directly to the development team, share hints and tips with other customers and, more importantly, speak with other customers who have similar situations as yourself in order to find more efficient ways to utilize our services to get done what you need to get done. The feedback we've gained through the forums helped to produce this release; so I wish to thank everyone of you whom have provided us with valuable feedback.
• Launched the "private edition" program; of which many customers just like you have been participating in. The feedback we've gained from this program is incredible. Those people whom participate are literally on the front line of what the next "public release" will be; so everyone should join in and thank them for their participation.
• Upgraded several servers over the past several months. Made significant improvements to the software overall to 100% support Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform; so, yes, if you choose, you could run our software on a billion dollar platform.
• Added (and continuing to add) more features than, it seems, anyone can keep track of.
• We've swept through the software and have made several enhancements based on the feedback we've gained through the forums.

• The stop and/or cancel context menu is no longer available on the order list. In order to stop and/or cancel an order, you will need to view the order and use the tools included on that window.
• There are now three new menu items that allow to to affect all items if an order. These are located in the Tools menu on the Order window. The Approve *all*... menu provides a means to approve all line items that can be approved. The Stop *all* as of... menu provides a means to stop all line items as of a specified date. The Cancel *all*... menu provides a means to immedately cancel all line items.

• Order items and rotation items are no longer automatically selected; allowing you to see any associated color coding that might be enabled.

• In order to correct data entry errors after approving an order, you now have to enable the Options->Correction mode menu item on the order dialog.

• All context menus in the order entry area have been enhanced to better reflect actual context. If a menu item appears to be missing, it's probably because the last action requires that you save changes before additional options can be made available. Pressing the apply button will save the changes and keep the window open; thus allowing you to gain access to further options.

• To better assist in determining what may have changed whenever creating/modifying orders; we've added a View->Change Summary menu item that will outline every change made during the current editing session.

• The Order window (item list and summary), the Customer/Orders window (order list) and Order Confirmation document have been enhanced so they now take into account trashed spots when calculating the number of units and revenue totals.
• Added "Effective Date" prompt when duplicating an order; will modify all dates based on the new effective date (effectively treats duplicate the same as create from package).
• Added Rate to the Order/Order Item placement summary dialog (summed).
• Added Spot Type to the Order/Order Item placement summary dialog.
• We've added the ability to include a footer comment on confirmations. To configure, you'll need to go to group settings and enter the text that you'd like to have printed.

• The automatic cart number assignment feature has been improved so that it now supports reserved cart numbers; allowing multiple people to simultaneously create copy and not having them utilize the same piece of copy.

• The statement selection window now honors the "print statement" per customer option. Additionally, the Print? column has been added to this window as an optional column.
• The statement selection window will no include customers with a zero balance if they've had any recent activity. Recent activity is defined as any new orders/lines, new invoices and/or payments since the beginning of the prior month.
• We've added the ability to include a footer comment on statements. To configure, you'll need to go to the appropriate location depending on your configuration to enter the footer comment (group or station(s)).

• The "Reports" list may be missing the categories when you initially upgrade. Use the View->Reset menu item to reset the view.
• Several existing reports that have a summary variation have had the summary variation removed. We've been recommending to our customers for some time now that they should be using the Detail varation. A new feature has been added to all of these detail reports that allows the information to be automatically summarized; thus totally removing the need to have two reports that serve the same purpose. Please feel free to contact customer service for further details and possible training on how this works.
• Customer List has been enhanced with a large number of new optional columns.

• All documents that print a station/group logo now support saving the images in PNG (loss-less) format instead of JPG (lossy). In order to take advantage, you'll need to update the images using the station/group dialogs.
• The Order Confirmation document has been modified so that discount will only be displayed if a discount is applied.
• The Order Confirmation document will now include any associated Tax information.
• The Order Confirmation document now takes into account trashed spots when displaying the "schedule"; trashed spots were already taken into account for the "projection" portion of the document.
• The Billing History report has been completely overhauled. Optional columns now include Station, Sales Person, Customer, Revenue Source, Revenue Type and Product. Adding and removing these columns will automatically summarize the information based on the columns that are visible. The Product check box has been removed since you can now just (optionally) add/remove the column using the MyViews Column Chooser feature.
• The Invoice Detail report now includes a Status column; indicating the current status on an invoice.
• We've added a "Aging Group" column to the Payment Detail report that allows you to group the payments into 0-30, 31-60, 61-90, 91-120 and Over 120 groups.
• Due to changes made to allow new features added to the Revenue Projection report and the fact that the old way was very undiscoverable, we've created a new Goal report to provide details related to sales goal(s) on a per station / sales person basis called Goal located int he Sales category.
• The After Aired report has been completely replaced so that it works like every other report (MyViews, summarization, customization).

• The rotation editor now includes start and end dates for each line of copy. Additionally, each line is now color coded as follows: Green - copy covers the entire date range of the rotation. Yellow - copy covers a portion of the date range of the rotation. Red - copy has been made invalid after it was added to the rotation. Rotation items are no longer automatically selected so that you can view any associated color coding applied.

• When modifying just the rotation(s) on an order, you will no longer be prompted to print the order confirmation.

• Added a "Count" column to the fill list that calculates how many times each fill item has been used on the current log.
• The log editor has been improved so that only one person/location can have *any* log open at a given time. In order to modify a log when someone else has it open, you will need to request that they close the log so you can open it.
• The Missing Copy Summary has been overhauled so that it is now MyViews enabled and no longer requires that you save the log before viewing.
• The Pending Orders Summary has been overhauled so that it is now MyViews enabled and, if displayed when locking the log, will allow you to press OK/Cancel on the displayed list instead of just an OK button, further requiring you to select Yes/No to continue using another dialog; thus reducing the number of steps required to continue.

• EmailMyTimes, EmailMyInvoices, EmailMyCopy features now require that email settings be configured using the dashboards Tools->Email Settings dailog.

• The Customer window now supports the ability to enter multiple email addresses (separated by the semi-colon (;) character.

• Manually emailing invoices no longer require that "deliver via email" be checked on the customer. Just requires that EmailMyInvoices be enabled and a customer having an email address.

• Can now compare a column to another column in the custom filters dialogs.

• Click the toggle button:

• Press CTRL+Q

• Anything to do with taxation, finance charges and deposits are now included as part of the Tax, Finance Charge and Deposits modules respectively. This allows taxes/finance charges/deposits to be removed from the system if they are not used. These modules are turned off by default. Contact us if you need to have any of them enabled.
• Some of our customers have expressed a desire to allow sales people to keep adding to an existing order, even after it's been approved. We can now enable a module that will allow this functionality; however, enabling this will limit our ability to, with any accuracy, determine if an order is actually completed. This will affect viewing pending invoices, automatic removal of orders that have expired, etc.

• The feedback mechanism has been enhanced and now requires that you leave a comment if leaving a negative rating. This comment will be forwarded to the RadioTraffic customer service team. As always, feedback (whether it be positive or negative) is always appreciated.

• We’ve enhanced the copy editor so that it now includes automatic spell check capabilities.

• To reduce the need to print preview an order just to see summary information, we've modified the order window so that it can be resized, moved order total to be below line items and added Qty and Total columns to the line item display.

• To keep everything consistent in order to reduce confusion, we’ve modified "pending" orders in the orders list to display as "Pending" instead of "Order"/"Unapproved" for consistency.

• Introducing the ability to do a "one click" cancel on an entire order. If the order is currently not executing, the entire order will be reset to a "pending" state. If the order is executing, the order will be stopped "as soon as it can".

• We’ve added ability to do a "one click" trash of an entire "pending" order.

• When duplicating an existing order, rotation information is now included.
• Calendar preview on order line items.

• Ability to modify order billing cycle after order is approved/executed/invoiced (feature currently limited to Support Services, please contact them if you need this done).

• Updated the reconcile fail form: MyViews enabled, can print/print preview and export.
• Added support for Enco DAD automatic reconcilation.

• Updated Spot Types and Automation Commands editor to be MyViews enabled.

• Introducing AutoPay; a feature that will automatically apply pre-existing payments to any invoices that are finalized upon finalization. This automatic process currently requires that the information on the payment (sales person, station, revenue type, revenue source) match the same set of information on the invoice.
• You now have the ability to "one click" create an ad-hoc invoice. If the invoice is end dated for today or prior, the system will automatically finalize the invoice upon saving; otherwise, the invoice will be left in a "pending" state.

• In addition to creating ad-hoc invoices, you can now "duplicate" any existing invoice, creating an ad-hoc invoice that initially mirrors the invoice that was duplicated. Changes can be made and the same "finalize"/"pending" behavior applies.

• You can now view invalid Co-Op scripts associated with invoicing from the Pending Invoices dialog.

• Drastically modified how Debit Adjustments work/look/feel.

• All administration modules now include the ability to “Find” (CTRL+F find, CTRL+SHIFT+F sticky find, F3 find again and SHIFT+F3 find reverse).

• Several of you have asked if we could add a “product” column to the Billing History report. The answer is yes. ;-) (Note: The exact method of this is subject to change in future versions.)
• All reports now include the ability to “Find” (CTRL+F find, CTRL+SHIFT+F sticky find, F3 find again and SHIFT+F3 find reverse).

• Inventory report now displays the calculated lowest spot rate for flat rate billing orders for the purposes of calculating AUR and LUR.
• Order List report has been enhanced to show up to three months of projection (based on start date running the report), three months of projected spots, total revenue and total unit count as optional columns.

• Visualize Changes has been modified so that they are italics (previously used underlines).

• Expand All automatically occurs when opening a log.
• When reconciling, the editor will now highlight items that have aired outside of the originally scheduled start/end times (based on 'aired time').
• When working with log reconciliation and editing the aired time, the time will now be formatted hh:mm:ss when moving between lines (improves readability).

• Added the 'Station' column to the Copy editor.

• You can now right click in the invoice list of the payments/adjustments window to select "Auto Apply" to automatically apply the transaction. Feature will first try to apply to an exact amount item first, if not found will apply from the oldest to the newest.
• Modified A/R transaction list to show revenue source, revenue type and station for transactions (payments/adjustments).

• Please help us to help you; if you give us a thumbs down rating, please be sure to send a quick email to support@radiotraffic.com regarding why.
• The dashboard will no longer automatically log off during regular business hours. Please be sure to log off if you are not actively working.

• CTRL+SHIFT+F 'Sticky Find' allows you to use the find dialog on the log editor and have it begin at the currently selected location instead of the default (CTRL+F) of the beginning of the log.
• When pressing CTRL+S on a log item, the 'Summary' windows will be displayed and automatically filtered for the highlighted customer.

• The What's New notice (this window) can now be left open so you can directly review the changes.

• It has come to our attention that the thumbs up/down feature isn't clear that you can rate your opinion on an up to three thumbs up or down basis. We've changed the display to reflect that there are three stages available for both the thumbs up and down options.

• CTRL+G can be used to jump to any time on the log and supports various short hand time entry support that is available on the orders module.

• The log editor now supports the ability to essentially view the log in whatever manner you wish by utilizing the View->Summary menu item. This view can be manipulated using MyViews to organize the information in any manner you wish.

• The bump and make good lists no longer reset to the first item whenever moving around on the log.

• You can now use Invoice Type when working with pending invoices. For example, this allows you to group, filter and/or sort by Invoice Type so you could finalize/print all of your CoOp invoices together.

• Printed invoices now include, if applicable, the TRADE element as part of the invoice header.

• The 'Current' column has been relabeled to '0 - 30 days'.

• Log Detail now includes the Copy (copy name) column.
• Invoice Detail now includes the Product column.

• Sales people can now view a limited view of the Accounts Receivable module. The view is limited to customers, invoices, payments and adjustments that they are associated with. This view also provides the ability to view and (re)print invoices.
• Sales people also now have the ability to directly access their customer list directly from the dashboard; using MyViews, can configure this list to best suit their working needs.

• We've had several requests to create a simpler way to "jump" to hours on the log. How about a single click of the mouse? You will find that the log editor now includes a list of numbers across the top of the log numbering between 00 and 23; click on these and you will jump directly to the first item in that corresponding hour.

• We are in the process of adding "Find" (CTRL+F) to the log editor and we would love to hear any feedback on this feature. Pressing CTRL+F in the log editor will bring up a simple box that you can type a phrase to search for. Upon pressing OK, the first item (if available) will be located and selected. "Find" will use all text on all columns in its search. To "Find Again", you can use the F3 key; pressing this key will take you to the next occurrence of the phrase. You can also use the CTRL+F3 key to "Find Reverse". We are making this available early for feedback, so feel free to play with it an let us know what you think.

• The Order List report has been enhanced regarding “created” orders. We now track “created” on a line item basis; so if you add a new line item to an order, it will now show up on this version of the report.
• We’ve further enhanced the Order List report to now include a “modified” variant. Selecting the “Modified” period will display all orders that have been modified (and created) between the dates specified.

• The Payment Detail and Invoice Detail reports now include the Product as an optional column.

• The invoice editing feature has been enhanced to provide the ability to modify the attached copy for each line item. This is true of the line item dialog (open by double clicking on the line) and the inline editing (similar in functionality to using the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editor).

• Preview copy on rotations by either double clicking on the line item or using the context menu throughout the rotation building process.

• Introducing the Bump report! The Bump report allows you to view all bump lists for all stations for the specified date range (defaults to "This Week") in one easy to view report. Combined with MyViews, you can organize the information quickly. (Premium Reports)

• We've improved all of the editors in administration (Agency Commission, Agency, Category, Clock, Commission, Conflict, Copy, Country, Credit Policy, Customer, Plan, Revenue Source, Revenue Type, Spot Type, Station, Tax, User and Voice) so they support the MyViews feature of Incremental Search. Just click on an item in the column that you'd like to incrementally search for and start typing the name of the item you are looking for.
• We've modified the Customer editor so that tabs containing invalid (missing) data now contain an icon to draw your attention better. No more hunting through tabs to find problem.

• Rotations are even easier while still maintaining complete control! You can now manipulate the rotation directly (as you have always been able to do) or utilize the new Ratio Editor to quickly build the list by adding copy and assigning a ratio (aka percentage). This editor also supports summary information to better assist you in getting your rotations right the first time through.
• We've reduced the number of data entry elements that define what an invoice will look like. This will reduce the number of elements on the screen that you have to adjust in order to build what essentially is four types of invoices (at this time). Previously you had to choose between Co-Op, Certified and Notary Required; having to remember what each of those meant and how they work with one another. These have been removed and replaced with a single drop down that includes the following options: Detail, Detail Affidavit, Detail Notarized Affidavit and Co-Op Notarized Affidavit. This change has been applied to Customers, Orders and Invoices.
• The Unapproved Orders window no longer closes automatically; improving the overall flow of approving orders.

• The Log Editor no longer "scares" you with a useless message when you save while reconciling.
• The Automatic Placement feature now supports the conect of filtered automatic placement; this means that you can filter the lists (using MyViews) and only those items that are unfiltered will be utilized when executing automatic placement. For example, filter out all $0 spots and execute; only spots with a rate are placed on the log. Turn off the filter and execute again and the $0 items are now included. In addition, the Bump list now includes Execute Automatic Placement as a context menu item.
• You should see a significant improvement in the overall performance of the Fill automatic placement (log editor).
• Write On Spot window is now MyViews enabled! Using the Write On Spot window during log reconciliation now allows you full use of MyViews; we've also added several columns that you can choose from to better assist you in selecting spots. Double-clicking no longer opens up the order, it works as a selection. To open the order, use the mouse right-click context menu. (Copper+)
• Enhanced Scott Studios/Google/WideOrbit cart number export. You can now use AAnnnn as a cart number (for example, LC1234 for a live copy read) and it will export these appropriately. The export will still treat nnnn as it always has, so no need to modify anything unless you have a need for this feature.

• Introducing the Emailed Invoices report! For those customers using the EmailMyInvoices features, we now have a report that will detail which invoices have been emailed. You can find this report under the "Informational" section in the reports icon. (Copper+)
• Inventory report gets a facelift! Based on customer feedback, we've significantly enhanced the Inventory report so that the numbers are separated out on a Spot Type basis. (NOTE: If you are unable to see these when you run the report, you may need to use the Tools/Reset *all* layouts menu item from the Dashboard.) (Copper+)
• Enhanced the Payment Detail report. We've added a new column, Comment, to the Payment Detail report. This column reflects the payments Comment data entry value. (Copper+)
• The Station/Sales Person summarized version of the Revenue Projection report now has the ability to chose goal and goal % columns for each month.

• If you have more than one station, we will no longer automatically select one; forcing you to select the correct entry.
• Now that the customer window contains a default selection for spot type, order entry spot line items will now use this default.
• Ability to duplicate a rotation line item; so, for example, you could modify the rotation by adding/removing items and setting a new date without having to start from scratch.
• Behavior of the calendar view on rotations has been improved to better reflect the valid start/end dates.
• Added ability to "override end date" to the rotation editor, accessible from the Options menu.
• Modified "override start date" so that it is now under the Options menu item instead of a check box.

Software Update

• Accounts Receivable Aging Details
• Accounts Receivable Aging Summary
• Accounts Receivable Reconciliation Detail
• Accounts Receivable Reconciliation Summary
• Aged Receipts/Adjustments
• Audit Trail
• Cash Receipts Application Analysis
• Deposits
• Unapplied Prepayments
• User Usage
• Agencies
• Agency Accounts
• Billing History
• Customers
• Payment History
• Aired Fill Spots
• Log Detail
• Log Summary
• Log Times
• Average Spot Rate
• Copy Assignment
• Order List
• Revenue Projection
• Adjustment Detail
• Adjustment Summary
• Aged Collections
• Finance Charge Detail
• Finance Charge Summary
• Invoice Detail
• Invoice Summary
• Payment Detail
• Payment Summary
• Tax Due (Invoices)
• Tax Due (Payments)

• Added Certified text option (in addition to Notary).
• CoOp defines whether or not scripts are printed.
• We no longer duplicate CoOp invoices.
• Enhanced scripts to include a header containing station return address, advertiser name, script name and length. We've also added a Station Documentation Statement section that provides some additional details regarding the scripts execution.

• Automatically loads tomorrow's log.
• Next and previous log navigation buttons added to toolbar.
• Ability to bump all spots and automatic placement of spots buttons added to toolbar.
• During reconciliation, write on spots has been enhanced to prompt for copy assignment as part of the same process.
• Can now view order details using context menu or double clicking anywhere you see an order (spot).
• Can now view copy details from the Fill spot list.
• Added real-time invalid copy summary as an additional tab (Invalid Copy), thus removing the need to manually run the Missing Copy Summary menu item.
• Added count of items to all the lower tabs.
• Added station level configuration for log export.
• Significantly reduced the amount of clicks it takes to save, lock and export logs. If station log path and automation system are configured in the administration->stations module, locking the log will save, lock and export automatically.
• Add ability to bump a spot using context menu and the delete key.
• Added ability to insert a write on spot (during reconciliation) using the insert key.
• Removed the "undoable" prompt when saving a log.