Myriad Advert Manager v3.5 Software Update Information

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v3.5.17

No changes, built to match Myriad v3.5.17

v3.5.16

There is a new button at the bottom of the Advert window that quickly duplicates an advert making it easier to add multiple adverts for the same client.

There is a new option on the "Display number of Adverts/Breaks" in the log window - "Highlight 'busy' hours". This paints the grid using different shades of Green depending on how many adverts/breaks are due that hour, with dark green being the lowest number and bright green being the highest number.

You can now sort the Adverts listed on the Contact Window by clicking the Column Headers

There is a new drop down list at the top of the Contact Window Advert Tab that allows you to filter the list to only show Current/Expired/Coming soon adverts etc.

The logic used to choose which hours 'Banded' adverts should be played in has been changed to further smooth the distribution of adverts. Note: This means that such adverts already entered on the system but not yet scheduled are likely to have changed which Hours they will now play in.

Any Notes added to an Advert Card are now sent all the way through to the Scheduled Log.

You can now enter an Advert without assigning a cart number - useful for "Live Read" adverts.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Clicking the 'Add New Contact' button on an Advert would open a blank Contact but the Adverts tab showed all the adverts available in the database.
•	Displaying the Play History for an Advert would also show a set of "HOOKLIST" items as well.
•	If you highlit multiple Hours to set an advert to play in them but did it going right to left or top to bottom the number/letter you entered was not being permanently set into the Advert 
•	When an Advert was marked to be scheduled during days that were during 'Daylight Savings Time' (for example an advert scheduled to play during 'British Summer Time' in the UK), the dates would be listed incorrectly on the Adverts Report and on the View Contact window.
•	Advert Manager would exit if you attempted to open an Advert that was edited using Microsoft Access. Please note editing via Access is NOT supported and should be avoided all costs.

v3.5.15

The method used to select which breaks during an hour an advert will be tested in has been changed to 'smooth out' the placement - this is designed to trend towards spreading the ads across all of the breaks in the hour rather than a tendency to 'clump' together in certain breaks. Obviously the placement is still based on weighted randoms so some hours will still have a few breaks heavier than others, and this is all dependent on collision rules etc. as well.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Adverts were not showing a Duration in the Advert Log Files.
•	When changing an Advert's Contact, the OK button would not be enabled.
•	On the Choose Contact window, choosing "Copy" from the right click menu would cause the Advert Manager to exit

v3.5.14

To assist users with multiple Advert Databases, the default location for Advert Log files for new Databases has been changed to DatabaseLocation\DatabaseName\Logs (previously it was just DatabaseLocation\Logs) 

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Adverts that had similar 'Bands' to other adverts would schedule in the same hours. The logic used to choose which hours 'Banded' adverts should be played in has been changed to ensure a wider distribution of adverts. Note: This means that such adverts already entered on the system but not yet scheduled are likely to have changed which Hours they will now play in.
•	Importing an old v2 database would set the 'End Date' was erroneously setting the end date to 00:59 rather than 23:59

v3.5.12

Inital release of the Advert Manager

Command Line options:
You can use Command line options to set Advert Manager to automatically schedule using the same format as Myriad v3's Log Exporter Tool (v3.0.19 and higher) and AutoTrack (v3.1.43 and higher). 
The format is /SCHEDULE /Start=<StartDateTime> /End=<EndDateTime> {/QUIT} {/database=DBName}

Important Changes from previous versions of the Advert Manager/Advert Scheduler/Advanced Advert Manager
•	Adverts are scheduled 'freshest' order first. This means that when scheduling an hour, the adverts that are only just starting of their On-Air run ('freshest') will be scheduled first, then followed by existing adverts that have been running 'on-air' already in decending order of 'freshness'.
•	Previous versions scheduled an even number of adverts across all breaks in an hour, but this would leave adverts that 'collided' with other adverts forced into unsuitable breaks.  Adverts are now scheduled into any available suitable breaks so it is very likely that the number of adverts in each break will be uneven.