Business Solutions News
All updates within the Business Solutions are listed with the latest additions at the top of the table. We recommend to "watch" this page if you want to keep in touch with all updates.
Date | Product | Feature | Details | Link |
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Feb 20, 2021 | BS Cloud Streams | Added Skin Settings Stream | A new Cloud Stream data type plugin "Skin Settings" was added to stream core skin settings from the global preferences. | |
Feb 20, 2021 | BS Cloud Streams | Added Comet Template Streams | A new Cloud Stream data type plugin was added to stream Comet page and product templates. | Details |
Feb 16, 2021 | BS DeepSearch | Faster facet building using Elastic Search | The performance of facet building got greatly improved now when Elastic Search is available | |
Feb 14, 2021 | BS DeepSearch | Added sort options for facets | The Default Facet Plugin supports ascending and descending sorting options now | |
Feb 14, 2021 | BS Skills | Added PIM attribute converter (with BS Labs) | Added a new wizard that allows converting PIM attributes to other formats including their data. | Details |
Feb 13, 2021 | BS Labs | Introducing BS Labs | Added the BS Labs license concept, which allows experimental features for field testing before the final production release. | Details |
Feb 07, 2021 | BS Cloud Streams | Added notarization of Cloud Streams | For improved security and for better support overview Cloud Stream Transactions are now automatically notarized when publishing and receiving. | Details |
Feb 01, 2021 | BS Cloud Streams | Various improvements and bug fixes | Cloud Streams are constantly improved and became more reliable and flexible. Transport of products and their classes, attributes and value ranges are quite stable now. Leaving Beta Status, as soon as we are getting more positive feedback from testers. | Details |
Feb 01, 2021 | BS RealTerm | Added a new terminology rule to identify valid Terms | A new terminology rule, that visualizes terms contained in the glossary as valid terms. | Details |
Feb 01, 2021 | BS DeepSearch | Added Class and Tag Filters to DeepSearch Areas | It is possible now to provide class and tag filters within the DeepSearch Area definition. | Details |
Jan 30, 2021 | BS Skills | Added Class Icon Selector Dialog | Added a popup dialog to search and select class icons with color | Details |
Jan 28, 2021 | BS RealTerm | Added aspell language definition to the language editor | Added aspell language definition to the language editor if the normal spellchecker is not licensed. Contributed by Andi Dietenhauser, SDZeCOM. Many Thanks. | Details |
Jan 27, 2021 | BS CloudStreams | Multiple Improvements | Multiple bug fixes and features like adding PIM classes and attributes when sending products, support for Windows file system when sending modules and more. | Details |
Jan 24, 2021 | BS CloudStreams | Added CloudStream with German Commodity Codes 2021 ("Zolltarifnummern") | Added a CloudStream to the marketplace that allows downloading the German Commodity Codes ("Zolltarifnummern") as Value Range | Details |
Jan 18, 2021 | BS Skills | Added new report mode to the timeline CSType | Added a dropdown "Display" to the timeline CSType that allows embedding a timeline report into the PIM Editor | Details |
Dec 18, 2020 | BS Skills | Added free Contentserv SMTP account for sending mails | Mails sent through BS Skills do no longer require a custom SMTP account. Instead | Details |
Dec 18, 2020 | BS Skills | Extended aggregated children placeholder to a generic aggregated object list placeholder | Generalized the selection of objects to multiple selection modes like references or children | Details |
Dec 17, 2020 | BS Skills | New options when creating very large BS XML Exports | Added an option to skip empty elements in order to decrease file size and memory consumption | Details |
Dec 15, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | New Layout for a large number of search areas | Instead of horizontal scrolling now search areas are laid out in multiple lines now | Details |
Dec 14, 2020 | BS CloudStreams | Added stream type for Measuring Units | Added a specialized and fully functional stream type taking care of streaming Measuring Units | Details |
Dec 12, 2020 | BS Semaino Connector | Initial Commit | Added a REST Service optimized for outbound Semaino connections | |
Dec 09, 2020 | BS Skills | Added BS Event Plugin to update referenced items on check-in | Added useful BS Event Plugin that checks out and in referenced items whenever an object is changed. | Details |
Dec 09, 2020 | BS Office | Multiple improvements for BS Smart Excel Documents | Improved reliability when exporting complex Flex Tables to Smart Excel Documents. | Details |
Dec 07, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Optimizations for very large amounts of search items | Limited the number of items that can be added to a share at once to 1000 and stopped adding all items when creating a new share automatically. | Details |
Dec 02, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Option to limit the "Everywhere Search" | Beside multiple performance and caching optimizations, a new option was added to limit the "Everywhere Search" to a subset of search areas | Details |
Nov 26, 2020 | BS GlobalLink TMS connector | Official Certification by GlobalLink. Multiple new features and use cases supported. | We did a complete reimplementation of the connector in close cooperation with GlobalLink. The purpose of the certification process was to ensure that all use cases required for certified connectors are supported. This makes sure that you can utilize the full potential of the GlobalLink platform. | Details |
Nov 23, 2020 | BS Skills | BS Event support for PIM channels | With the latest update also PIM Channels can retrieve events when channels are created, updated or deleted. | Details |
Nov 20, 2020 | BS TranslatePlus Connector | Documentation and new option added. | Documentation and an option to enable/disable logging added. There is also a treatment for language IDs that do not exist in CS. | Details |
Nov 17, 2020 | BS Data Designer | Extension of the BMEcat Export plugin interface | Allows customer-specific implementation for article price details (ARTICLE_PRICE_DETAILS) and article attachment handling (MIME_INFO) over a plugin interface. | Details |
Nov 08, 2020 | BS Cockpit | Image quality restrictions in the Upload Tile | Allowing to configure criteria for uploaded images like filesize, filetype, image width, height, area, colorspace and dpi. | |
Nov 07, 2020 | BS Permissions | Added "Locking" support for Tree Menu Editors | Allowing to lock also editors with tree menus | Details |
Nov 05, 2020 | BS Office | Added Language Chooser for Search Plugin for MS PowerPoint, Word, and Excel | Added Language Chooser, so that you can switch between all configured CS Languages in Search Plugin for MS PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. | Details |
Nov 04, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Simplified Search Item Selection and Download | The selection of items is now always available and the previous "Select Mode" history | Details |
Nov 04, 2020 | BS Permissions | Added "Locking" of visible Tabs | It is possible now to select editable tabs along with visible tabs, which are then visible but locked from editing. | Details |
Nov 02, 2020 | BS Skills | Language-specific Hotfolder Linking between Products and Files | The "Hotfolder Linking" that allows to auto-link files to products by naming convention supports now language-specific file reference attributes. | Details |
Nov 01, 2020 | BS Media | Added new "Omit Preview" Export Preset Plugin | Added a new export preset option "Omit Preview" to enforce usage of the original DAM asset for renderings instead of the master.png | Details |
Oct 31, 2020 | BS Skills | Improved "Merge to Folder" List Action on Products | Added documentation and authorization check for "Merge to Folder" list action | Details |
Oct 26, 2020 | BS Skills | Added HTTP Request Active Job Finalizer | Added a new Active Job Finalizer, that allows sending Active Script Results via HTTP Request to a remote REST Service via POST, PUT, GET, etc. | Details |
Oct 13, 2020 | BS Media | Color Profile Conversion in Export Presets | Added a new Color Profile plugin, that allows converting images from one color profile to another including the definition of the rendering intent. | Details |
Oct 12, 2020 | BS Media | InDesign and Links Package Export | Added an export button to download InDesign files together with the linked images in one zip package. | Details |
Oct 09, 2020 | BS Media | Added Differential Media File Export | Added a BS Event Plugin to regularly export changed files to remote target systems. | Details |
Oct 09, 2020 | BS Review | Added documentation | Added an article explaining the BS Review features. | Details |
Oct 06, 2020 | BS FlexCharts | BS FlexCharts is available as a (free) Cloud Stream | Flex Charts allow creating beautiful diagrams based on PIM data by pure configuration. Flex Charts are configured in exactly the same way as Flex Tables. | Details |
Oct 06, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Smart Preset for View Links configurable | Added a new configuration Field to the Deep Search Area Configuration to set the Smart Preset used for the "view links" for search results. | Details |
Oct 05, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Facet Type: Reference | The new "Reference" Facet Type builds search facets from reference attributes. | Details |
Oct 02, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Performance Improvements, Dark Preview Box, preview images for products in the right Preview Box | The HTML generation for search results works faster now. In the Deep Search 'Behavioral Settings' you can now enable 'Dark Mode'. The right preview box now shows the preview images of prodcuts. | Details |
Sep 15, 2020 | BS Media | Added new Media URL Viewer CSType | Added a new CSType that allows visualizing image URLs stored in PIM attributes | Details |
Sep 14, 2020 | BS Data Designer | Added documentation | Added documentation for the BS Data Designer | Details |
Sep 14, 2020 | BS Office | Placeholder Images in Excel Smart Templates | Add placeholder images to Excel Smart Templates. Make it configurable if the cell size is adjusted to the size of inserted images. | Details |
Sep 11, 2020 | BS Media | Added new Media Catalog Smart Template | Added a Smart Template allowing to select and print previews of media files along with metadata | Details |
Sep 07, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Design improvements | Added multiple little improvements like ESC key closes dialogs and search, design updates, etc. | Details |
Sep 03, 2020 | BS Adobe Creative Cloud | Added Connector to Adobe CC Libraries | Added a connector that bi-directionally synchronizes DAM folders to Adobe CC Libraries | Details |
Aug 31, 2020 | BS Cloud Streams | Added Streaming of Products, Files and Users | Several improvements for Cloud Streams including streaming of Products, Files and Users | Details |
Jul 31, 2020 | Installation Guide | Added Section "Checkout modules per product" | Added a table with all the svn checkout paths to be used for each BS product | Details |
Jul 28, 2020 | BS Deep Search | Set the search logic for the Deep Search | The search logic in the search bar of the Deep Search can now be set to either Google-like, AND or OR. | Details |
Jul 17, 2020 | BS Cloud Streams | Added Streaming of Skins | With this new stream type, the typical skin customizations of each project can be transported, for example, tree icons, search and portal skins plus dictionaries. | Details |
Jun 10, 2020 | BS Cloud Streams | Added E-Mail Options for Cloud Streams | It is possible to fine-tune E-Mail notification rules for Cloud Streams and to provide and select an E-Mail template | Details |
Jun 10, 2020 | BS Skills | Added E-Mail Templates for BS Mails | It is possible to provide and select E-Mail templates now for BS Mails | Details |
Jun 06, 2020 | BS Cloud Streams | Added new Security Policies for Code Streams |
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May 30, 2020 | BS Media | Added Class Assignment to Hotfolder Linking | Added the possibility to assign classes in the Hotfolder linking script | Details |
May 30, 2020 | BS Media | Added BS Media Export Preset Documentation | Added extensive documentation of the BS Media Export Preset Plugin. | Details |
May 30, 2020 | BS Media | Added Rename Preset Function | Added a new preset function that allows renaming assets on the fly while downloading according to various parameters including referenced products. | Details |
May 30, 2020 | BS Media | Added Remove Background Preset Function | Added a new preset function that allows to call up the Remove.bg API to remove backgrounds from unknown images using AI. | Details |
May 12, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Added License Restriction for DeepSearch | A new BS License Checkbox was added for the DeepSearch, which was technically not licensed yet. The restriction is available but not yet active and gives existing customers without license some time to retrieve a valid license until June 30th, 2020. | Details |
May 10, 2020 | BS DeepSearch | Added Option to show Facets even if not available for all search results | This is important for all DeepSearch customers. The new default now shows Facets maybe not relevant for all search results. | Details |
May 03, 2020 | BS SDL Language Cloud Connector | Added API integrated SDL Trados and XLIFF connector | Added a new TMS connector synchronizing translation jobs with the SDL Language Cloud | Details |
Apr 30, 2020 | BS Media | Added MAM Synchronization Script Article | Added a new article about the BS MAM Synchronization Job | Details |
Apr 13, 2020 | Cloud Stream #94A617 | Class Icon Selector Dialog | Adds the long-awaited icon selection dialog in the class editor. | Details |
Apr 04, 2020 | BS Cloud Streams | Initial Release 1.0 of BS Cloud Streams | Added a new module that allows publishing, subscribing and transporting data and configuration between two servers. | Details |
Mar 12, 2020 | BS Skills | Portal Favorites List Widget | Added a new Portal Widget that provides a studio list fenced with a search favorite | Details |
Mar 10, 2020 | BS Office | Smart Excel Documents | Added an all-new Smart Template based on Microsoft Excel Files including Flex Table support | Details |
Mar 05, 2020 | BS Data Designer | BMEcat Export Template | Various improvements for the BMEcat Export Template | |
Feb 24, 2020 | BS Skills | Added Data Flow Image Export with Public Links | Added a new Data Flow Export Transformation Plugin for product images, which are transferred to a public URL location automatically during export. | Details |
Feb 20, 2020 | BS Skills | Added support for backward timing of tasks created with BS Notification Workflow Action | In the BS Notification Workflow Action, it is possible now to attach multiple tasks in one action and time them backward. | Details |
Feb 17, 2020 | BS Skills | Added a button to insert CS Fields to the Richtext Editor | Allows inserting CS Fields placeholders into text fields via an Attribute Selection dialog. | Details |
Feb 12, 2020 | BS Skills | Added Mail Transfer Script for MAM Files | Added context-aware ActiveScript that allows exporting MAM Files via Mail Transfer using Public Links | Details |
Feb 01, 2020 | BS Skills | Added new options to the Aggregate Values Placeholder | Added "Range" mode to display min to max value range. Added option to show units. | Details |
Feb 01, 2020 | BS Skills | Added Universal Unique Identifier Data Type | Added a new attribute type, that automatically creates a UUID | Details |
Jan 27, 2020 | BS Skills | Added Delegation User switch | Added links to switch other users and portals with one click in the main hamburger menu. | Details |
Jan 16, 2020 | BS Skills | Added Timeline CSType | Added attribute type that visualizes the history of an object with a timeline bar in list and editor | Details |
Dec 31, 2019 | BS Skills | Added Notification Workflow Action Plugin | Added new workflow action plugin, that notifies users about the action by sending E-Mails or attaching tasks to the workflow item. | Details |
Dec 28, 2019 | BS DeepSearch | Direct assignment of Smart Presets and Active Scripts to Deep Search Areas and Shares | Product and Channel Shares allow now to directly define available Smart Presets and Active Scripts. | |
Dec 12, 2019 | BS Skills | Added Sub Selection CSType | Added new attribute type, that allows sub selecting options from another select field. | Details |
Dec 12, 2019 | BS Skills | Added Table Selection CSType | Added new attribute type, that allows selecting rows from Table attribute type. | Details |
Dec 10, 2019 | BS Skills | Added E-Mail Active Job Finalizer | Added a new Active Job Finalizer, that allows sending Active Script Results to any E-Mail recipient as an embedded or downloadable link | Details |
Dec 08, 2019 | BS Skills | Added Public Link API | A new API method allows transferring a CS file to a public Web Server and returning the public HTTP Url to that file. | Details |
Dec 06, 2019 | BS Skills | Added E-Mail API | A new API method allows sending well designed and modern E-Mails from CS. | Details |
Dec 06, 2019 | BS DeepSearch | Several Improvements for the DeepSearch | Added new options to globally predefine share settings Fixed a bug in the share authorization | Details |
Dec 05, 2019 | BS Permissions | Added Documentation | Documented the BS Permissions module that allows to grant and revoke viewing and editing on object level | Details |
Nov 25, 2019 | BS Skills | Added BS Housekeeping Extensions | Added new BS Housekeeping ActiveScript that extends the standard housekeeping by BS specific cache and log files cleanup | Details |
Nov 22, 2019 | BS Office | Search Plugin for MS PowerPoint, Word and Excel | All new Add-in for Microsoft Office to search and insert images from DAM assets or PIM products. | Details |
Nov 16, 2019 | BS Skills | Improved MAM hot folder linking to products by filename | Existing MAM hot folder linking script allows now also to move the linked file to a subfolder hierarchy of the target folder based on the product hierarchy linked to. | Details |
Nov 09, 2019 | BS Skills | Various improvements in the Channel Synchronisation Plugin | Added support for frozen channels and product-to-product or product-to-channel reference attributes that are resembled by creating real channels during synchronization. | Details |
Oct 30, 2019 | BS Media | AI-supported focus point detection in images using Google Vision | Using Google Vision API to detect the center of attention in images and create a focal point note for cropping actions. | Details |
Oct 21, 2019 | BS Media | AI-driven Background Removal | Leverage your Remove.bg subscription to simply remove backgrounds from any image using the latest AI algorithms. | Details |
Oct 18, 2019 | BS Amazon Connector | Data Flow Export to the Amazon Seller Central | Data Flow Export Loader that sends export data directly to the Amazon MWS API. | |
Oct 16, 2019 | BS Skills | Run ActiveScript Workflow Action Plugin | Workflow Action Plugin that allows starting a new ActiveJob in the context of the workflow object | Details |
Oct 14, 2019 | BS Cockpit | Data Quality Cockpit Tile | Added BS Cockpit tile for Data Quality visualization and navigation | |
Oct 08, 2019 | BS Skills | Smart Document Export by ActiveScript | Export and deploy Smart Documents using automate ActiveScript background processing. | Details |
Oct 07, 2019 | BS Media | Media Viewer Attribute Type | Added new attribute type that visualizes all kinds of media asset formats directly within the PIM product editor. | Details |
Sep 23, 2019 | BS AX Semantics Connector | Use AX Semantics Natural Language Generation to create marketing text | Active Script, Workflow Action and Data Quality Action that call up the AX Semantics REST API and store generated text back to the product. | Details |
Sep 23, 2019 | BS Media | Crop images around a "Focuspoint" | Define the "Focuspoint" of images as a DAM note. Create an Export Preset that automatically crops images around that point. | Details |
Aug 05, 2019 | BS Skills | Smart Sections | A new concept to prepare Smart Document Sections with selected and ordered attributes and assign them to the Default Smart Preset. | Details |
Aug 02, 2019 | BS DeepSearch Portal | Design Updates according to latest Google UI | CSS based updates to reflect the latest Google look & feel like the rounded input field, colors and more | Details |
Aug 02, 2019 | BS Skills | Microsoft SQL Server Data Flow Import Connector | Added Data Flow Import Extractor that allows importing data directly from Microsoft SQL Server. | |
Jul 23, 2019 | BS Media | 360° Spin View of Products | Provide a 360-degree view of any kind of product by turning image frames into animations | Details |
Jul 21, 2019 | BS Office | Content Viewer for Word, PowerPoint, Excel and 50+ File Types | Extracts page previews for over 50 file formats and allows to review them in a new content browser window. | Details |
Jul 18, 2019 | BS Poductsup Connector | Allows converting any Contentserv Data Flow Export into a Productsup import. | With 1500+ channels available, Productsup supports the largest assortment of integrations for feed management and product content syndication, from the most popular to your own custom exports. | Details |
Jul 10, 2019 | BS Publishing Hub Connector | Export Contentserv products and channels directly into the priint:suite Publishing Hub of Werk-ii. | The BS Publishing Hub Connector allows exporting PIM Products or Channels as a structure or search favorite and passes it on directly to the priint:suite Publishing Hub REST API. | Details |
Jul 06, 2019 | BS Matomo Connector | Collects and reports analytics information about the usage of Contentserv Search and Studio. | Matomo’s full range of features in combination with the Contentserv Matomo Connector allows evaluating the entire user-journey of everyone who uses Contentserv. | Details |
Jul 05, 2019 | BS Default Smart Template | Highly configurable Smart Datasheet Template | Highly configurable SmartTemplate that allows rendering any kind of PIM product in a datasheet kind of style. | Details |
Jul 02, 2019 | BS Google Manufacturer Center Connector | Data Flow Export to create and update product information in the Google Manufacturer Center. | Google Manufacturer Center helps you provide the most up-to-date and authoritative product info into Google, making it available to potential customers. | Details |
Jul 04, 2019 | BS DAM Hot Folder Update | ActiveScript Plugin that imports DAM files dropped into a hot folder. | ActiveScript that checks a hot folder for incoming files ("drop files") and uses them to replace existing DAM files ("match files"). | Details |
Jun 20, 2019 | BS Skills | Cassandra Data Flow Export Loader | Allows sending any Data Flow Export directly to a Cassandra keyspace. | |
Jun 20, 2019 | BS Skills | MySQL Data Flow Export Loader | Allows sending any Data Flow Export directly to a MySQL database table in delta or full export mode. | |
Jun 18, 2019 | BS Synchronize Channels | Simple synchronization strategy between PIM products and their channels. | Active Script and Workflow Plugin to synchronize new and updated PIM product structures into channel structures. | Details |
Jun 18, 2019 | BS Wait ActiveScript Post Processing Step | ActiveScript Post Processing Step that waits a configurable amount of seconds | Post Processing plugin that can delay the sequence of chained ActiveScript when required for a specific sequence. | Details |
Jun 16, 2019 | BS TranslatePlus Connector | TMS Export Plugin to TranslatePlus | Exports and imports TMS Jobs to the TranslatePlus REST API. Allows also to import Machine Translations without considering them as approved. | Details |
May 22, 2019 | BS DeepSearch Themes | Extended the DeepSearch Portal by Themes | Themes allow login dependent skin and content within the DeepSearch. Added direct connection between Contentserv Portal login and Deep Search. | |
May 25, 2019 | BS Cockpit | "Who is online?" Cockpit Tile | Added a BS Cockpit Tile to show "Who is online?" |