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Release Notes - July 2016
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Release Notes - July 2016
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Release Notes - July 2016

Learn about new features and fixes in the [!DNL Adobe Marketing Cloud].

Note

To receive release notes one week prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Adobe Priority Product Update. Release information in the Priority Product Update comes one week in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

Release: July 21, 2016

Experience Cloud

Adobe Mobile Services {#mobile}

Feature Description

New permission requirement for Manage App Settings

Changing configuration settings in Manage App Settings now requires Mobile App Admin access from Admin > Groups > Mobile App Admin .

See Adobe Mobile Services for product documentation. To see the release notes for previous releases, expand Previous Release Notes in the left pane.

Dynamic Tag Management {#dtm}

Feature Description
Marketing Cloud ID service tool The option to have the Marketing Cloud ID service tool in DTM load at the top of the page is now enabled by default.

Fix

When the Marketing Cloud ID Service tool is added, [!UICONTROL Automatically request Visitor ID] is now selected by default. (DTM-8189)

See What's New in Dynamic Tag Management for current and cumulative release notes, help, and documentation updates.

Marketing Cloud ID Service {#mcvid}

This release increments the version to 1.6.0. It includes the following features, bug fixes, and other changes.

Important Notices about the Marketing Cloud ID Service

Important

Review the following table for crucial ID service notices that may affect implementation, data collection, and general product functionality.

Notice Description

AppMeasurement Code Requirements

Version 1.6.0 of the Marketing Cloud ID service requires AppMeasurement for JavaScript version 1.6.3 or higher. If you want to upgrade to version 1.6.0 of the Marketing Cloud ID service, please make sure you are using AppMeasurement code verison 1.6.3 or higher.

Features

Feature Description

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

CORS allows browsers to request resources from a domain other than the current domain. The Marketing Cloud ID service supports CORS standards to enable client side, cross-origin resource requests. The ID service reverts to JSONP requests on browsers that do not support CORS. (AAM-23988)

See:

Fixes and Improvements

  • Changed the default loadTimeout value to 30,000 milliseconds (30 seconds) from 500 milliseconds. See Variables Used by the ID Service getInstance Function. (MCID-96)
  • Added a d_fieldgroup parameter to ID synchronization calls to dpm.demdex.net. This new parameter is used for internal troubleshooting and debugging purposes. (MCID-94)
  • Added a title attribute to the ID service iFrame. An iFrame title helps screen readers provide page information to users who require assistance when interacting with online content. The iFrame title attribute is set to Adobe ID Syncing iFrame. (MCID-81)
  • Added idSyncAttachIframeASAP: true as an optional flag you can set in the Visitor.getInstance function. When true, the ID service loads the ID synchronization iFrame as fast as possible. This is designed to help improve ID synchronization match rates. By default, the ID service loads the iFrame on window load. (MCID-86)

New and Revised Documentation

See also the Marketing Cloud ID Service product documentation.

Analytics

Important Notices for Analytics Administrators {#analytics_notices}

Important

Review the following table for important Analytics notices that may affect data collection, processing, APIs, product end-of-life, and so on.

Notice Date Added or Updated Description
Permission changes coming in October 2016

July 21, 2016

In October 2016, Analytics administrators will be able to manage users and product configuration (groups) in the Enterprise Dashboard . The Enterprise Dashboard is the administration interface for Adobe's Marketing, Creative, and Document Clouds.

You will be able to:

  • Create product configurations for products, tools, products, report suites (and more).
  • Create users and assign them to product configurations.
  • Delegate administrative roles to users over specific products configurations.
  • Apply permissions to specific dimensions and metrics.

Additionally, the current Admin Tools user management feature will receive important enhancements.

Note: See Administrative Product Changes for Fall 2016 for more information.

AppMeasurement 1.6.3 and Visitor API 1.6.0

August 4, 2016

Version 1.6.0 of the Marketing Cloud ID service requires AppMeasurement for JavaScript version 1.6.3 or higher. If you want to upgrade to version 1.6.0 of the Marketing Cloud ID service, please make sure you are using AppMeasurement code verison 1.6.3 or higher.

AppMeasurement for Flash - Security update

April 21, 2016

Adobe has released a security update APSB16-13 for the AppMeasurement for Flash library. This update resolves an important vulnerability in the library, applicable only when debugTracking is enabled, that could be abused to conduct DOM-based XSS attacks .

Note: This issue affects AppMeasurement for Flash only when debugTracking has been enabled ( debugTracking is disabled in the default configuration). If affected, we strongly advise you to disable debugTracking immediately. Here is some sample code:

public var s:AppMeasurement; s = new AppMeasurement(); s.debugTracking = false; // set to false or remove line                          // for default "disabled” behavior 
</codeblock> <p>Affected versions are <span class="term"> AppMeasurement for Flash </span> version 4.0 and earlier on all platforms. </p> <p>Note:  Due to security reasons, we will no longer be distributing an AS2 version of <i>AppMeasurement for Flash</i>. We will continue to support data collection from existing AS2-based projects. However, we highly recommend that customers upgrade their implementations to AS3 and incorporate the latest security features of <i>AppMeasurement for Flash</i>. </p> <p> <span class="term"> AppMeasurement for Flash </span> customers affected by this issue must rebuild projects with the updated library available for download from the Analytics Console <a href="https://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flex/4.0/UsingFlashBuilder/WS6f97d7caa66ef6eb1e63e3d11b6c4d0d21-7feb.html#WS6f97d7caa66ef6eb1e63e3d11b6c4d0d21-7f88" format="http" scope="external"> More… </a> (AN-121780) </p> </td>

SSL v3

April 14, 2016

As of early Feb 2016, Adobe Analytics data collection and reporting APIs no longer supports SSL v3.

SiteCatalyst 14, ExcelClient, etc. end of life in September 2016

March 17, 2016

SiteCatalyst 14, ExcelClient, and a number of other legacy components will reach end-of-life in September 2016.

This means that all access to the SiteCatalyst 14 user interface and several related features will be removed. To prepare for this event, view this list of affected components, along with required user actions and suggestions on how to move forward with alternatives.

Web Services v 1.2 API end-of-life

February 18, 2016

Version 1.2 of the Web Services API was officially deprecated on February 20, 2014. It will reach end-of-life on September 15, 2016. At that time, Adobe will remove the ability of the API servers to respond to version 1.2 API requests. Any API requests made to the https://api.omniture.com/admin/1.2 endpoint will return a 404 error. Customers have until the end-of-life date to upgrade from the version 1.2 API to the version 1.4 API to prevent an outage in their API applications.

UK Postal Code

February 18, 2016

Adobe's geo service provider is changing how we receive UK postal codes. We will be switching from providing truncated UK postal codes to full postal codes on or around March 18th.

New Features in Analytics {#features_analytics}

Feature Description

All Report Suite Access

When adding report suites to include in a group, the new option All Report Suite Access applies group permissions to all current and future report suites.

Te enable this feature, navigate to User Management > Groups > Add New User Group , then select All Report Suite Access .

Note: See Administrative Product Changes for Fall 2016 for information about important upcoming enhancements to permissions.

Analysis Workspace - Project Information panel

Added an information modal at Project > Project Information . This panel displays the following project information:

  • Project name
  • Created by
  • Last modified
  • Tags
  • Description

(Added June 2016) Simplified implementation for new customers

New customers who log in to Analytics via the Marketing Cloud can quickly implement Analytics using the Getting Started with Adobe Analytics modal, then deploy Analytics using Dynamic Tag Management.

This simplified implementation is hosted by Dynamic Tag Management and enables you to:

  • Quickly create your first report suite.
  • Run reports on basic page-level data.
  • Deploy Analytics and the Marketing Cloud ID service.

See Getting Started with Analytics Implementation for details.

[!DNL Analytics] Fixes and Improvements {#analyticsfixes}

Fixes and improvements were applied to the following products and services:

Product Fixes
Analytics Web Services (SOAP and REST APIs) - July 25, 2016

Developer Connection Content Updates (Added July 25, 2016)

Updates to Classifications.CreateExport :

  • row_filter_empty_column (new field)
  • all_rows (new field)
  • campaign_filter_start_date (updated)
  • row_filter_column_name (updated)
  • row_filter_column_value (updated)
  • element (updated)

Updates to Permissions.SaveGroup .

  • all_report_suite_access (new field)
  • rsid_list (edited)

Updates to Permissions.GetGroup .

  • all_report_suite_access (new field)
  • rsid_list (updated)

Deprecation Notice

Version 1.2 of the Web Services API was officially deprecated on February 20, 2014. It will reach end-of-life on September 15, 2016. At that time, Adobe will remove the ability of the API servers to respond to version 1.2 API requests. Any API requests made to the https://api.omniture.com/admin/1.2 endpoint will return a 404.

Reports & Analytics

  • Increased the display length for segment names in the Segment panel, to avoid truncated names. (AN-123194)
  • Admin: Fixed an issue preventing activity tracking for users who log in via the Marketing Cloud using their Adobe ID. This fix replicates activity tracking for users who log in traditionally via their company name, user name, and password. (AN-124792)
  • Fixed an issue preventing shared calculated metrics from being applied to non-admin users. (AN-125412)
  • Fixed a rare issue causing reports to be sent, even if the report was not scheduled for distribution. (AN-126552)
  • Fixed a login issue occurring for users whose default product login was SearchCenter (AN-126281).
  • Fixed an issue preventing reportlets from being added to dashboards while in Layout mode, then clicking Add Content. (AN-97419)

Analysis Workspace Fixes

  • Scheduled projects now use the report suite time zone rather than the browser's time zone. (AN-126233)
  • Added the ability in Scheduled Projects to specify the width of a project's PDF. (AN-124242)
  • Fixed an error occurring when downloading PDF projects when previewing them in the Chrome browser. (AN-123674)
  • Fixed an issue preventing components from being placed and resized (in rare situations). (AN-126175)
  • Fixed a segment definition issue occurring when adding a Browser segment and then changing the Browser Type in the table. (AN-126086)
  • Fixed an issue in weekly project scheduling that caused the day of the week to not display properly in the interface. (AN-125760)
  • Fixed undo functionality for sub-panel name changes and for the Segment Comparison Panel . (AN-125518, AN-125467)
  • Improved display of visualizations that are dragged to the Segment Comparison Panel . (AN-125456)
  • Fixed a random issue preventing project dashboards from displaying after logging in. (AN-124635)
  • Fixed a sorting issue in the table for projects that use multiple metrics and segments. (AN-126162)

Activity Map

  • Reorganized and renamed the tabs in the Activity Map Settings panel as follows:
    • Others tab was renamed to General and moved to the first position.
    • Settings that apply to both Standard and Live settings tabs were moved to the General tab.
  • Improved the styling and layout of the Overlay Details panel. (AN-124048)
  • Removed unsupported overlay metrics (New Visitors and New Customers) from Activity Map. (AN-124056)
  • Activity Map Live mode now reports on all links present in the web page. (AN-116094)
  • Fixed an issue that caused calculated metrics to not display after reloading the page. (AN-125900)

Report Builder

Improved support for scheduling workbooks that were initially opened from the Excel Web interface through Office 365. (AN-118240

Data Warehouse

  • Add segment support for page views in Data Warehouse (AN-125067).
  • Fixed a segment logic issue in rules where a "0" hash value is present in the classification lookup table (AN-125340).
  • Added the ability to send empty reports instead of responding with "no data." (AN-126210)
  • New email distribution lists created after the interface's Virtual Report Suite changes will now work in Data Warehouse. (AN-123842)
  • Breakdown now supplies proper MIME types in emails it produces (AN-124243)
  • Fixed an issue preventing the display of participation metric names. (AN-117260)

AppMeasurement (Legacy and Mobile SDKs) - Updated 8/4/2016

AppMeasurement for JavaScript

8/4/2016: Version 1.6.3

Fixed an issue where AppMeasurement prematurely terminated request connections. (AN-126448)

Note: Version 1.6.0 of the Marketing Cloud ID service requires AppMeasurement for JavaScript version 1.6.3 or higher. If you want to upgrade to version 1.6.0 of the Marketing Cloud ID service, please make sure you are using AppMeasurement code verison 1.6.3 or higher.

AppMeasurement for JavaScript

Version 1.6.2

  • Inclusion of Visitor API 1.6.0 .

  • Fixed an issue causing AppMeasurement to call the wrong obfuscated method in the Visitor API. (AN-126006)
  • Fixed an issue causing the JavaScript error: "Attribute only valid on v:image". (AN-124009)

See AppMeasurement Release History the following for a release history of AppMeasurement on the following platforms:

  • JavaScript
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Flash-Flex
  • OSX
  • Windows Phone, XBOX, Silverlight, and .NET
  • BlackBerry
  • Java
  • PHP
  • Symbian

See Also: Marketing Cloud ID Service (formerly visitor ID service )

Feature Description

Sample Error Report

The Sample Error Report checks success and failure rates for processing records in your inbound data source files. Error reporting displays data in an interactive bar chart and provides summary metrics in tabular form. And, it includes an option that samples files for a fixed time interval and displays the most common errors for each error type.

Documentation will be available when the feature is released at the end of July.

Advertiser Analytics Reports

Updated the Advertiser Analytics reports with Cross Channel Conversion , Role-Based Access Control , Conversion Groups , and the Reported Conversion Traits report.

Cross Channel Conversion

The Cross Channel Conversion option in the Advertiser Analytics reports allows you to attribute offline conversions to served online impressions or clicks.

Reported Conversion Traits

This report shows you all the traits labeled as conversion traits for a conversion group at a certain date.

Fixes, Enhancements, and Deprecations

  • Upgraded Google Bid Manager from v201601 to v201603. (AAM-24618)
  • Fixed a bug where the Profile Merge rules reporting were showing 0. (AAM-24685)
  • Fixed a bug where customers were unable to edit or delete user groups because of a unique key error in the audit table. (AAM-24864)
  • Fixed a bug where no limit was being enforced on S2S and Bulk S2S destinations. (AAM-24905)
  • Changed the style of the line dividing the legacy login and the Marketing Cloud. (AAM-24378)
  • Fixed a bug where incorrect error messages would appear after deleting users, groups or data sources. (AAM-24638)

New and Revised Documentation

New:

Revised:

Fixes, Enhancements, and Deprecations

  • Fixed an issue where replying to a tweet produced an error stating the tweet exceeded 140 characters.
  • Fixed an issue where toggle buttons enabling certain link shorteners were not functioning.
  • Fixed an issue where moderator replies were not showing in Moderation.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking the magnifying glass on a post within [!DNL Social Buzz] returned an error page.

Important

Effective September 15, 2016, Publish Anywhere will replace Publisher.

Refer to the Adobe Target Release Notes for the latest release information about the following products:

  • Target Standard and Premium
  • Target Classic
  • Recommendations Classic

Search&Promote {#section_D28F5C0158D64702896CF29E3887E42A}

Note

Links from Adobe Analytics to all Adobe point products, including Search & Promote, have been removed from navigation. Users of these tools can log in either via Marketing Cloud (where supported) or directly. To log in to Search & Promote, use this link:https://center.atomz.com/center/.

[!DNL Primetime]

See Primetime Help Home for the latest Primetime help.

[!DNL Campaign]

[!DNL Adobe Campaign] provides an intuitive, automated way to deliver one-to-one messages across online and offline marketing channels. You can now anticipate what your clients want using experiences determined by their habits and preferences.

For product documentation, see:

Adobe Campaign Standard

Adobe Campaign v6

[!DNL Experience Manager]

Adobe recommends customers with on-premise deployments to deploy the latest patches to ensure higher stability, security, and performance.

AEM Help

Description

AEM 6.2 Documentation Update

Performance tuning tips for AEM 6.x

Various tuning tips to optimize the performance of AEM 6.x.

Gems on AEM

Gems on AEM is a series of technical deep dives delivered by Adobe experts. The series complements product documentation and technical channels. It also helps developers to get in touch and explore a specific topic in detail.

AEM hot fix releases

Description

AEM 6.2 hot fixes

The following new hot fix is now available:

AEM 6.1 hot fixes

The following new hot fixes are now available:

Dispatcher 4.2.0

New features include the following:

  • Regular Expression (regex) support for filters and cache rules.

  • Support for HTTP persistent connection (also known as HTTP keep-alive) on all platforms.

Download https://www.adobeaemcloud.com/content/companies/public/adobe/dispatcher/dispatcher.html

Documentation

Suggested self-help content

The following table contains a selection of links to suggested topics. These topics can help you make the most of your implementation and use of AEM.

AEM topic

Description

Repository Maintenance Best Practices

Learn about the two ways to perform revision cleanup in AEM.

User Interface Recommendations for Customers

AEM includes the classic and touch-optimized UI. As such, the "User Interface Recommendations for Customers" topic can help you decide which UI is best for you to use. This information comes in handy during project implementation or when you update from an earlier release.

Components

Provides, among other things, a basic overview of AEM components, including components in the classic UI and the touch-optimized UI.

Solution Integrations

Integrate AEM with other Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions and with third-party services.

AEM with MongoDB

Improve your knowledge on tasks and considerations needed to successfully deploy AEM with MongoDB.

Best Practices for Queries and Indexing

Information on when to create indexes and when they are not needed. Also includes tips to avoid using queries when they are not necessary, and tips for optimizing the performance of your indexes and queries.

Multi Site Management

Use Multi Site Manager (MSM) to use the same site content in multiple locations.

Additional resources:

[!DNL Advertising Cloud]

Advertising Cloud help is available in the product at [!UICONTROL ? > Help Contents].

Recent documentation updates

Item Description Date Published

Administrative Product Changes for Fall 2016

Important announcement about permission changes coming in Fall 2016.

July 21, 2016

Adobe Experience Manager 6.2

Adobe Experience Manager 6.2 is an upgrade release to the code base of Adobe Experience Manager 6.1. It provides new and enhanced functionality, key customer fixes, high priority customer enhancements and general bug fixes oriented toward product stabilization. It also includes Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 feature pack, hot fix, and service pack releases.

May 19, 2016

Getting Started with Analytics

A getting started guide for new Analytics administrators.

May 15, 2016

Marketing Cloud Integrations

A round-up of available integration topics.

May 15, 2016

Activity Map

Activity Map product documentation.

April 14, 2016

Marketing Cloud Audiences in Analytics

With the Marketing Cloud Audiences for Analytics integration in place, you can incorporate Marketing Cloud audience data such as demographic information (e.g. gender or income level), psychographic information (e.g. interests and hobbies), CRM data, and ad impression data into any Analytics workflow.

April 14, 2016

Analytics Product Comparison

Added a product comparison table for Analytics products.

February 18, 2016

Marketing Cloud Assets

In Marketing Cloud Assets, you can store, share, and synchronize your digital assets from one central location. Marketing Cloud Assets leverages some of the features available in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

February 11, 2016

Analysis Workspace features

Added documentation for new features in Analysis Workspace.

January 21, 2016

(Updated) Users and Groups

Analytics Administrators: If you are an administrator in the Marketing Cloud, see Users and Groups for updated information about mapping Analytics groups to broader Adobe groups, and adding or bulk-adding users via the Enterprise Dashboard .

September 17, 2015

Analysis Workspace

Updated Analysis Workspace product documentation with feature descriptions, tasks for creating projects, videos, and use cases.

September 17, 2015

Timestamps Optional

Added product documentation and best practices for Timestamps Optional. This feature lets you integrate both timestamped and non-timestamped data in a report suite. All new report suites will be Timestamps Optional by default.

September 17, 2015

Data Workbench 6.5 Update

See Data Workbench 6.5 release notes for instructions to upgrade and a list of new features and bug fixes, including a new Associations table and chord diagram and updates to visualizations, user interface, algorithms, and export features.

September 17, 2015

Select Report Suites and Variables

Updated the Classification Rule Builder so that you add report suites and variables to a rule set when editing an existing rule set (after creating the rule set). Previously, you specified the variable and report suite while creating the rule set. This change prevents reported issues occurring with classification variables.

August 20, 2015

Profile Link

Profile Link works with cross-device data sources to identify and collect traits for authenticated site visitors. It includes the Profile Merge Rules feature, which lets you segment and target users accurately across multiple devices.

August 20, 2015

New Calculated Metric Builder and Calculated Metric Manager

Calculated Metrics now allow for segmented metrics, more advanced math and the ability to organize and share metrics.

June 18, 2015

Analysis Workspace (public beta)

Build data tables and drag-and-drop metrics, dimensions, segments, and multiple visualizations to a project panel.

June 18, 2015

Data Workbench 6.4

Data Workbench 6.4 release includes several new features described here .

June 18, 2015

Adobe Managed Certificate Program

Added Adobe Managed Certificate Program to the revamped First-Party Cookies product documentation.

The managed certificate program lets you implement a new first-party SSL certificate for first-party cookies at no additional cost.

May 22, 2015

Mobile

Revamped the Adobe Mobile product documentation.

May 22, 2015

Enabling Your Solutions for Core Services

A high-level round-up what you need to do to modernize your solution implementations for core services.

March 19, 2015

Customer Attributes

If you capture enterprise customer data in a customer relationship management (CRM) database, you can upload that data into the Marketing Cloud.

March 19, 2015

Analytics Spring Release

See the New Features section in Analytics for a round-up of new documentation for the Spring 2015 Analytics release.

March 19, 2015

Analytics Classification Rules - overwrite existing values

In Admin Tools > Classification Rule Builder > &lt;rule set name&gt; , two new options enable you to select an overwrite mode:

  • Rules overwrite any existing values: (Default setting) Always overwrite existing classification keys, including classifications uploaded via the importer (SAINT).
  • Rules overwrite only unset values: Only fill in blank (unset) cells. Existing classifications will not be changed.

Previously, if a key was already classified in any column or cell, the rule would not run on that key, and the row in the table was skipped.

February 19, 2015