What Was New in Infigo This Quarter (April - July 2024)
This is the partner document to our August 2024 Academy Webinar. Find out about all of Infigo's new capabilities and enhancements!
Take a look at our complete What's New articles, delivered straight to your inbox each month:
Barcodes (and QR Codes) in Invent
One of our recent releases of Invent saw the introduction of barcode specification from within the InDesign plugin.
Populate barcodes with static text, or link them to variables you've created within your Invent template, to allow end-users to customise barcode content.
Learn more about this feature here.
You can download the latest Invent version right now, or update from within your Invent for InDesign plugin.
Advanced Grouping in Invent
We’re excited to share the new Advanced Groups feature in Invent, designed to give you greater flexibility and control over your designs. Here's what you can do with Advanced Groups:
Key Features:
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Vertical, Horizontal, and Both Alignments:
- Arrange grouped items either vertically, horizontally, or both.
- Customize margins and sizes based on your chosen alignment.
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Boundary Items:
- Use image placeholders to define the boundaries of your groups.
- Easily extend group space for better item arrangement.
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Advanced Margin and Spacing Options:
- Set precise margins and gaps between items.
- Utilize auto-spacing to distribute items evenly.
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Content-Based Resizing:
- Fields can now resize dynamically based on their content.
- Ensures text fields grow or shrink as needed without manual adjustments.
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Quick Alignment Tools:
- One-click options for fast alignment and spacing adjustments.
Benefits:
- Enhanced Layout Control: Create complex layouts with precise alignment and spacing.
- Time-Saving: Quick setup with advanced settings and one-click options.
- Dynamic Resizing: Fields adapt to content changes, maintaining a clean design.
Let's take a look at a basic example of Invent's Advanced Groups in action:
Keen to learn more? We've created a small series of tutorials to show you how to get up to speed with Advanced Groups in Invent. Log in to the Infigo Academy and take a look!
- Configuring Advanced Grouping in Infigo Invent for InDesign | IV_027
- Explaining Margin and Size Specification Options in Invent Advanced Grouping | IV_028
- Examples of Advanced Grouping in Invent | IV_029
You can download the latest Invent version right now, or update from within your Invent for InDesign plugin.
Platform Performance Enhancements
We're constantly looking for ways to improve the efficiency of our platform, witht the last quarter containing many upgrades aiming to do just this! Whilst you won't see any shiny new features or buttons on your platform, these upgrades aim to provide a faster, sleeker experience for both you and your customers.
Let's take a look at a few of the ways the performance of the Infigo platform has been improved in recent months:
- Optimised access permission synchronisation
- Improved search engine handling for MegaEdit editor links
- Optimised multi-page PDF handling in MegaEdit
- Language and localisation caching
- Category navigation enhancements for large number of categories
- Shopping cart loading speed
- Lazy loading for combination images
- Improved loading of product attributes
- Streamlined widget checks
- Enabled CORS requests for resources stored on different domains
- Enhanced database indexing
- Faster iframe loading speeds
- Introduced broadcast and listen endpoints for our Iframe integrations
Enhanced Multipart Editor for Single File Uploads
Infigo have introduced an enhanced Multipart editor focused on optimizing the PDF upload experience. This update brings a new, intuitive interface specifically designed for upload-only products, ensuring effortless drag-and-drop functionality and a much friendlier user experience.
Learn more about this updated feature here.
This new format will be enabled by default on all new storefronts. For those wishing to activate it on existing storefronts, enable the following setting:
Infigo Settings > UseNewMultipartEditorUi
Checkout Requirements
We've improved the checkout experience by introducing configurable checkout requirements, which allow you to apply various rules that prevent users from proceeding with checkout under specific conditions.
Accessible through Admin > Checkout Settings > Checkout Requirements, these settings let you create rules across multiple sections like order quantity, product tags, and shipping fees.
Additionally, a new debug mode has been implemented, enabling you to review rule application directly in the browser console. This update ensures a streamlined and error-free checkout process by enforcing necessary conditions before completing a purchase.
printIQ Custom Quoting
This major update to our Connect: printIQ integration allows us to obtain fully specified, custom quotes from printIQ for use in your Infigo storefronts.
Until this point, in order to create an estimate and retrieve live pricing from PrintIQ it required you to create individual SKUs for each combination of product you wanted to offer to your customer. So if you had 5 fixed sizes, two stocks and two finishes it meant you needed to create 20 SKUs in PrintIQ.
This new functionality removes the need to create these products upfront and instead allows you to build up a detailed mapping between your Infigo product and it's printIQ equivalent using various component parts of that product.
This works by building up a base specification on an Infigo Product level, and then overriding certain parts of that specification on an Infigo Product Attribute or Infigo Product Attribute Combination level, allowing your customers to build up more complex quotes.
Our Custom Quoting feature for Connect: printIQ was introduced early in 2024, however the last quarter saw significant enhancements aimed at streamlining the process of managing product attributes, values, and combinations.
New to custom quoting in our Connect: printIQ module? You can find out about it here!
If you need some additional guidance on the custom quoting features, we have some additional tutorials on the Infigo Academy:
Add to Cart
Over the last few months we have introduced several separate enhancements to the seeminly simple ability to add items to your cart/basket, building on the core functionality of adding items from your product landing pages.
These new features consist of:
- Allowing the adding to basket of certain product types from teaser pages. Teaser pages can be found in several locations, such as when you see the tile of a certain product on your home page (featured products), within the product search or on category pages. This means your customers don't have to go to landing pages in order to add items to basket.
- Quantities of these same product types can also be selected from the teaser pages, allowing you to add multiple of the same product without having to access the product landing page. Enable this in Catalogue Settings > Show quantity selector in catalogue pages
- The behaviour of the Add to Basket button can also be controlled (both on the teaser pages and landing pages themselves). An option exists in the Catalogue settings (named "Redirect on add to cart") to allow this behaviour to be switched between:
- No Redirect | Stay on the current page when an item is added to basket
- Cart | Navigate to the basket page whenever a product is added to basket
- Checkout | Launch the checkout process whenever a product is added to basket
- Users have the ability to multi-select products to add to basket in category pages. These are enabled on a per category basis with Display Settings > Add to basket mode > Multi Select
You can find out more about these features in the following tutorials:
Connect: CERM
We were proud to introduce our latest Connect integration, this time with CERM.
"CERM offers software solutions for an integrated workflow, designed specifically for the industrial labelling and packaging sector."
We have been hard at work creating on-demand tutorial resources to show you exactly how to set up and use this functionality.
You can access the new resources here.
Please note, Connect: CERM is an additional paid module. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for more details.
The Connect: CERM integration has been in development for many months, however undergoes regular upgrades as we further improve its capabilities.
Whilst its core operation is very similar to our other MIS integrations, there are a number of features and methodologies which have been developed specifically for CERM and its extensive capabilities in the label space.
Get a quick introduction to the Connect: CERM integration here.
The Best of the Rest!
Content Management Quick Access
You can now jump straight to your Editable Content specification from the front-end of your Storefront, resulting in a much more connected experience between Infigo's front and back ends.
It's super easy to use. Just keep an eye out for this new icon when navigating your Storefront as an administrator. Take a look at this tutorial for more information.
Content Template Enhancements
Content Template Sets
We have introduced the ability to save your carefully crafted Content Template content as sets, so they can easily be re-used time and time again across your Storefront.
Save loads of time and ensure consistency across your Storefront! Take a look at this tutorial to learn more.
Automatic Categories in the Header
We've given you the ability to automatically populate a range of categories into your header.
When using the Header Content Template, simply select "Header Item - Automatic Categories" from the Add Content list.
Remember, you may need to clear your Infigo cache () to see these updates on the front end!
Unpublish Content
We've added a new "Unpublish" option at the highest level of each section template (find it using the configure icon ) . This feature ensures that templates can be quickly deactivated from use within modules, enhancing control and flexibility across your content management workflow.
New Token for Unpaid Banners
The token Module.Unpaid Order Banner can now be used directly in content templates to display unpaid order banners on whichever page it is input.
Improved Approval Links Access
Users with only the Registered and Approver roles can now access Approval links from the My Account menu, ensuring that managers responsible for sign-offs can efficiently perform their tasks without requiring store admin privileges.
Enhanced Match Conditions
Previously, conditions and exceptions in templates only worked if a specific value was exactly matched. Now, you can also check if a field has any value or no value at all, not just specific true values. This makes it easier to manage optional fields without needing separate show/hide settings for each one. These enhancements help you create cleaner and more efficient content templates.
API Product Attribute Support
Product Attributes Support
We have improved the control over product attributes available within our API. This includes actions such as:
- Adding product attributes
- Updating attribute types
- Adding or removing attribute values
Updated Product API Endpoints
We’ve launched an updated version of our product API, introducing new endpoints to offer a more detailed and flexible product management experience. The new endpoints allow you to retrieve, create, and update products with enhanced attributes, including detailed descriptions, SKU, category IDs, tags, availability dates, basket quantity settings, and comprehensive pricing details. This update ensures seamless integration and better control over product information, streamlining your operations and enhancing your storefront's capabilities. Check out our updated API documentation to explore these new features.
And Much More!
These features and enhancements are just the headline changes over the last quarter. The What's New articles and their accompanying Complete Release Note articles show much more complete lists of our enhancements each month.