Version 10.0

 New features realized in version 10.0.7 - January 2018
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General

In the header, there is now a new tab Connect. In this tab, all licensed imports and exports are shown. If you have no licensed interface yet, this header will be empty.

1.13.7 Tab Connect
Contracts/Licenses

The utilisation analysis now only shows window types, which have been labeled Type for utilisation analysis.

5.13 Utilisation Analysis
Contracts/Licenses

The dialog Collective processing of licenses can now also add a commit to all selected licenses. The comment is added to existing comments.

5.3 Dialog Collective processing of licenses
Contracts/Licenses

If a program has multiple licenses, the button in the dialog Edit program will open the license with the latest license begin.

3.1.1 Tab General
Contracts/Licenses

Deadlines of licenses are now shown on the tab General of the dialog Edit license.

5.2.1 Tab General, Deadlines
Contracts/Licenses

You can now see the deadlines of licenses in the tab General of the dialog Edit Contract. This enables you to see the deadlines of all licenses in the contract.

5.1.1 Tab General, Deadlines
Contracts/Licenses

In the availability analysis, past availabilities are not shown anymore, only if you activate the Flag Show past availabilities, they will be shown.

1.9 Verfügbarkeitsanalyse
Contracts/Licenses

In the dialog Offer you can now add program versions.

5.9.2 Tab Programs
Contracts/Licenses

In the utilization pattern, you can now set a currency.

5.5 Utilization pattern
Contracts/LicensesIn the tab License Accounting of the dialog Edit contract, several factors have been added to the accounting methods. These new factors allow even more flexible ways of accounting VOD takes.5.1.7.1 Accounting of Contracts (S-VOD, T-VOD, Live Channels)
Contracts/LicensesWhen the rerun rule of the window is not set, the license rerun rule is automatically taken for the calculation of runs.5.2.1 Tab General
Programs/Series

Version types can now be variable. This results in variable programs in the Planner.

Version Type
MaterialIn the tab Material Controlling, new fields have been added.3.1.16 Tab Material Controlling
Workflows

In the search area, there is now a new branch Materialcontrolling under More > Workflow. Here, you can check the material controlling of a certain period of time.

1.1.1.5 Tab More, 3.1.16 Tab Material Controlling
Folders

You can now add edit rights for each folder-specific folder field.

9.2.2 Tab Fields
 New features realized in version 10.0.6 - September 2017
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General

You can now color the text of individual columns. You can also make them bold.

1.1.5 Persönliche Listeneinstellungen
General

You can now rename and merge users.

1.11.2.1 Tab User
General

When you press the button Shows a report on the active element in a dialog, the dialog ReportCtrl is no longer opened, if there are no additional options to choose. This saves you time, when generating a report. If you want to see the dialog, please press the [SHIFT] key while selecting the report.

 
General

The MyPage now shows you not only deadlines, for which you are responsible, but also deadlines, which you created.

10.2 Persönliche Startseite (Start > MyPage)
GeneralThe index search for titles has been extended and can now be activated costumer-specifically. If you are interested, please contact your contact person from CreateCtrl.1.1.4 Die Index-Suche
GeneralThe two user rights MATCON and MATCON_L have been added, so that users, which have no rights to edit programs, can view or edit the tab Material Controlling.1.11.1.2 Tab Permission Groups
GeneralThe system parameter BODLG_SEAL_AUTO has been added. This system parameter enables an automatic lock when closing a dialog with the button OK.1.5.1 System Parameters
GeneralThe system parameter LIZENZ_DATAPAGE_SUPPRESS_SAME_CONTRACT has been added. This system parameter deactivates that licenses of the same contract are shown in the details area, when you have selected a license in the results area.1.5.1 System Parameters
GeneralAn overview of all wizards has been added.1.9 Übersicht über alle Assistenten
General

You can now choose letters and numbers as symbols for attributes and value attributes.

Value attributes, Attributes
Contracts/Licenses

There is now a dialog, in which you can edit windows. This enables you to edit windows in a structured dialog.

5.2.3 Tab Windows
Contracts/Licenses

In the dialog Collective processing of licenses, you can now edit the channel affiliation of licenses.

5.3 Dialog Collective processing of licenses
Contracts/Licenses

In the dialog Receipt, there is now a field Check Amount, in which you can enter an amount.

5.10.1 Tab Receipt
Contracts/Licenses

In the tab Price you can now add position numbers to the individual positions.

5.1.5 Tab Price
Programs/Series

The season divider can now automatically create generic episode titles, if the episode titles are empty.

3.3.2 Tab Episodes

Material

You can now reference seasons in the tab Materials. This can be helpful, when material only applies to one season.

3.1.7 Tab Materials
Folders

Folder field definitions can now be copied from other folders. Therefore, you only need to create complicated folder field definitions once and can use them in several folders.

9.2.2 Tab Fields
FoldersYou can now filter your folder values in the dialog Edit custom fields for folders.9.1 Administration of Folders 
 New features realized in version 10.0.5 - August 2017
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GeneralThe element voucher was renamed and is now called receipt.5.10 Dialog Receipt
GeneralA description of material controlling has been added. This feature has been implicated customer specifically in version 10.01.3.1.16 Tab Material Controlling, KatLeistung
GeneralThere is now a description of the system parameters. System parameters can only be changed by CreateCtrl and enables customer specific changes to the system.1.5.1 System Parameters
GeneralThe description of rerun rules has been enhanced and graphics have been added.Reruns
GeneralThe temporary file storage can now be set to 0, so that elements are reloaded each time and are always up to date. This will decrease the performance.1.6.4 Reiter Temporärer Dateispeicher
GeneralSome user rights have been added. For example, it is now possible to edit the tab Contract > License Accounting, without having the rights to edit other tabs of a contract.1.11.1.3 Tab User Group
General

Usually, the date of every import and export is saved separately for each import or export. This ensures that you always know, for which dates the import or export was used the last time.

Now, it is also possible to fix the dates, so that the dates do not change when you select a different import or export in the field Select Import/Export. In order to do this, please activate the check box Fix. This will fix the dates, so that you can perform several imports or exports with the same dates, without having to change the dates for each import or export.

 
Contracts/Licenses

You can now enter thepre orderdate of a window.

5.2.3 Tab Windows, Preorder
Contracts/LicensesThe VoD Price was renamed and is now called VOD Price Category. You can select price categories for VoD windows with this feature.5.2.3 Tab Windows, VoD Price Category
Contracts/Licenses

The columns of the license accounting have been enhanced. For example, the column Info was removed and split into single elements. This makes the information easier to process afterwards.

Additionally, the column Total license fee was added, which enables you to compare an imported license fee with the calculated license fee of the take.

 
Contracts/Licenses

Channel rights can now be copied.

Channel
Contracts/Licenses

You can now show content or season aggregations instead of licenses in the availability query.

1.9 Verfügbarkeitsanalyse
Contracts/Licenses

With the dialog Collective processing of windows, you can now set the flag NONE Price for all selected windows.

 
Material

In the tab Edit license > Material delivery in the area Delivery, there is a new field Material delivery type. This field can be defined in the parameters.

Material Delivery Type
Folders

A group of users can now be owners of a folder. This enables every member of the group to edit and delete the folder.

9.2.1 Tab General
 New features realized in version 10.0.4 - June 2017
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General

The search can now bealtered,so that it finds special characters by using standard characters. For example, if you search for "Oceanos", you will now find "Océanos". Exceptions are special characters like "Æ", which stand for two letters at once. These characters can still only be found with the right character or the placeholder "_".

This new search is based on a completely different method and was therefore not activated for all costumers.

 
General

You can now manage abbreviations for users. These abbreviations can be used in exports and reports.

1.11.1.1 Tab User

1.11.2.1 Tab User

GeneralThe description of secondary events in the tab Layout has been extended.7.3.2 Tab Layout
Contracts/LicensesPeriods can now be calculated with formulas. This enables you, to set a deadline 3 months before the end of a contract, without having to know, when the contract will end.Formula, Deadlines
Contracts/LicensesIn the dialog Edit contract, periods are now shown in the tab General. This enables you, to quickly create and edit deadlines.5.1.1 Tab General
Contracts/LicensesYou can now create periods with period patterns. This enables you to create multiple periods at once according to a period pattern.Deadline Pattern
Contracts/Licenses

The button Add broadcast has been added to the tab License of the header. With this button, you can add a broadcast to the currently selected window.

1.13.5 Tab License
Contracts/LicensesThe rerun rules have been extended by a rule, which only allows reruns until the end of the broadcasting day.Reruns
Contracts/Licenses

In the dialog Edit license > Windows, columns have been added to the VoD Takes. Now you can see, that a take was made e.g. in Germany, SDand EST.

5.2.3 Tab Windows
Contracts/LicensesThe Playout format has been added to the Utilization pattern. This can be useful for VoD.5.5 Utilization pattern
Programs/Series

In the dialog Edit program, tab Parental rating, a copy button has been added. This button enables you to copy entries and save time.

3.1.8 Tab Parental Rating
Programs/Series

In the dialog Edit program > Assets a new button has been added, with which you can quickly create an ingest order, without having to search for the asset again.

3.1.6 Tab Assets

Ingest-, Outgest, Transcode- und Package-Aufträge

Persons/Companies

The filtering flags for companies have been extended. There is now a flag called Contract partner. This flag has to be activated for all companies, which canbe contract partners, otherwise, they can not be selected as contract partners anymore.

4.3.1 Tab General
Material

In the dialog Edit Asset > Ad cuts, ad cut positions are now color-coded. An overlapping of two positions is colored blue, a gap between two positions is colored red.

6.3.5 Tab Ad Cuts
FoldersThe dialog Edit folder can now be opened per double-click on thefolder, if the folder is selected and loaded completely.9.2 Dialog Edit folder
 New features realized in version 10.0.3 - March 2017
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General

It is now possible, to collapse the header to save space. This can be done with the button or per double click on a menu item in the header.

 
General

The tab App Settings has been added to the dialog Edit user.

1.11.2 User Specific User Administration, 1.11.2.7 Tab App Settings
General

The description of the search and filter operators has been enhanced. For example, it was added, that you can filter for "< today" and "> now" in date and time fields.

1.1.3 Filter Operators
General

The parameter Reruns has been extended by the column Archive . With thiscolumn you can archive rerun rules. If a rerun rule is archived, it can still be used by old data, but it can not be selected in a new license and will not be in the drop down list anymore.

Reruns, Archive
General

You can now define colors for value attributes, which are usedinthe Programmer to color event flags. Furthermore, adrop downlist for the icons has been added, so that finding an icon is easier now.

Value attributes, Attributes
Contracts/Licenses

In the dialog Edit contract, tab General, the button Calculate contract end and begin by license runtimes has been added. It takes the earliest begin and the latest end of all licenses of the contract.

5.1.1 Tab General
Contracts/Licenses

The availability query and the tab License > Availability now also work for series.

Verfügbarkeitsanalyse, 1.10.3 Tab License
Contracts/Licenses

The ContentExplorer can now manage vouchers and bookings.

5.10 Dialog Receipt, 2018-09-06_12-55-15_5.2.6 Reiter Buchungen
Contracts/LicensesWindows and licenses can now be created without a channel. Because of this, you can now create licenses and windows without knowing, which channel it will be used for.5.2.3 Tab Windows
Contracts/Licenses

The tab Edit contract > License accounting has been extended by several columns and a copy button.

5.1.7 Tab License Accounting
Contracts/Licenses

The tree License > License in the search area has been extended by the window type. This makes it easier to search for certain window types.

1.1.1.4 Tab License
Contracts/Licenses

Offers do now have a button, with which you can directly create programs.

5.9.2 Tab Programs
Contracts/LicensesYou can now generate sale windows from purchase windows. This feature is relevant forlicensedistributors.1.10.3 Tab License
Contracts/Licenses

In the matrix of rights, a right with a defined status is now shown with a black triangle.

5.2.2 Tab Rights
Programs/Series

The Episode Change Wizard can now automatically create episodes. It can copy the episode information ofa alreadycreated episode.

3.3.2 Tab Episodes
Programs/Series

You can now edit the parental rating of several program versions at once with the new dialog Multi-edit parental rating.

3.7 Multi-Edit Parental Rating
Programs/Series

In the dialog Edit program, tab Parental Rating, the fields Rating length, Rating length cinema and Assets have been added. In the field Assets, all assets of the selected program version are shown, so that you can see, if the program version has an asset.

3.1.8 Tab Parental Rating
Folders

You can now create free lists with folders. In order to do this, you can drag content into folders asusual, then add new columns to the folder (in the dialog Edit folder > Fields) and then fill these columns with the option Edit folder fields.

9.2.2 Tab Fields, 9.1 Administration of Folders
Query GeneratorIn the results of the query generator, you can now copy single fields instead of whole lines. 
 New features realized in version 10.0.2 - February 2017
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GeneralThe description of the details area has been extended.1.10 Details Area
Persons/Companies

You can now tag a company as Rating authority for parental rating. As a result, you can only select companies with this flag in the tab Parental Rating, column Rating authority and the selection list is shorter and therefore better to handle.

FSK Prüfstelle, 3.1.8 Tab Parental Rating, 4.3.1 Tab General
Persons/Companies

You can not tag a company as a favorite with the flag Favorite. As a result, you can only select companies with this flag in Edit asset > General > Owner and in the tab Material controlling, column Client.

Supplier for Material, Eigentümer, 6.3.1 Tab General
 New features realized in version 10.0.0 - September 2016

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GeneralThe CreateCtrl Suite now fully supports right-to-left languages. 
General

The tabs Package and Platform have been added to Admin > Edit parameter. These tabs enable specific VoD and linear processes. Packages can be copied with the button .

1.5 Edit Parameters, Platform, Package
General

For reasons of clarity, the field New content automatically with new reference number has been removed from the tab Admin > Options > Default.

1.6 Options and Program Options
General

In the tab Texts you can now alter the font and font size of texts.

3.1.5. Tab Texts
General

You can now activate the option Exact search (no trailing "%") in a general search. This option will enable, that only the exact search term is found. Notice: This makes only sense, if you enter the exact search term. Example 1: A search for REF-001 will only bring the result REF-001 and not REF-0013. Example 2: A search for Honey will only find the movie Honey and not Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

1.6 Options and Program Options

Search

General

You can now delete previous search terms by pressing the key DEL when hovering a previous search term.

 
General

In the search dialog you can now search for license offers.

Search
GeneralThe field numbercan notbe locked in alldialogs,so that you can not edit it manually. If this is activated, numbers can be generated automatically.Reference Number
GeneralYou can now apply periods or deadlines for different elements. You can define period types under Admin > Edit parameter > Period type.

Deadlines

10.2 Persönliche Startseite (Start > MyPage)

1.12 Content-Buttons

Contracts/Licenses

The license copy wizard is now able to copy attributes.

5.7 Copy Wizard License Information
Contracts/Licenses

It is now possible to select the version type in the dialog Edit license > Material delivery.

5.2.5 Tab Material Delivery
Contracts/Licenses

If fields in the matrix of rights have active entries in the rights category 1 or 2, the fields are now marked with a green triangle.

5.2.2 Tab Rights
Contracts/LicensesIf the license time of a license is unlimited, it is now possible to show a fictional future date. This enables a useful sort by license end. This feature has to be activated customer specifically.5.2.1 Tab General
Contracts/Licenses

The rules for reruns have been extended to make timeshifts possible. Timeshifts can now be displayed as follows:

TSxx[kkk]mmm

  • xx = empty or WH (= rerun)
  • [kkk] = abbreviation of the timeshift channel
  • mmm = number of minutes

Example: TS[S1]40, TSWH[DC]60

Channel abbreviatensare now in square brackets,so that no channel abbreviations have to be changed. If the xx specification is empty, only runs are linked with timeshift events, reruns remain unlinked. The specification of the channel is optional. There may be several rules for timeshifting active at the same time (e.g. for different channels). A timeshift event has a timeshift flag,in all other license fields it displays the specifications of the original event. There may only be one timeshift event per event on the main channel.

Additionally, thecross channelrule has been extended:

X[kkk]aaWxhhh

  • aa = number of permitted reruns
  • [kkk] = abbreviation of thecross channel
  • Wxhhh = the known rules for reruns

Example: XWR30 (as before), X[DC]WG120, X[S1]2WR60, X2WR180

Again, the channel abbreviation is in square brackets. The channel abbreviation and aa are optional. Several X rules may be active (e.g. for different channels).

Reruns
Contracts/LicensesTimeshifts are now shown in the details area, tab More > Planning. 

Contracts/Licenses

Now, several windows in the tab Windows of the dialog Edit contract can be selected simultaneously. These windows can be edited simultaneously with the new collective processing button.

Begin, end and attributes of all selected windows can be edited or copied in the new dialog Collective processing of windows.

If the new window is not within the license time, a warning appears when you try to save the dialog. The user has to decide, whether he wants to adjust the license time according to the window or abort the procedure.

5.1.4 Tab Windows

Contracts/Licenses

The channel affiliation of a license now can be filled automatically by a new button based on matching rights of license and channel. The matrix of rights has to be filled in both channel and license for this.

5.2.1 Tab General
Contracts/Licenses

In Admin > Edit parameter > Contract type you can now select default contracting parties. Those parties can be activated in the dialog Edit contract in the tab Partner with the button Assigns the defaults from the contract type parameter to contracting party 1 and contracting party 2. This only works, if default contracting parties have been selected in the parameters dialog.

5.1.2 Tab Partner

Contract type

Default Contracting Party

Contracts/LicensesThe tab Revenue key of the dialog Edit contract is now deactivated per default. It can be activated customer specifically.5.1 Dialog Edit contract
Contracts/Licenses

A new type of run has been added, called Timeshift. This kind of run does not count up runs or reruns.

Reruns

Contracts/Licenses

The dialog Collective processing of licenses has been extended by the options Set flag Tentative and New target content.

5.3 Dialog Collective processing of licenses
Contracts/Licenses

In the tab Material delivery of the dialog Edit license, an area named Deliveries has been added. In thisarea you can add ordered and received deliveries. It is possible to multi-edit these entries.

5.2.5 Tab Material Delivery
Contracts/Licenses

A new tab has been added to the details area. It can be found under Asset > Delivery. It contains all data, that can be managed in Edit license > Material delivery.

 
Contracts/Licenses

You can now see the subscribers per package in the search area tab License > Contract under Package subscriber (if these numbers have been imported).

1.1.1.4 Tab License
Contracts/Licenses

In the details area License > Contract you can now sort by the selection in the column Nr. A click on this column will put the selected entries above the entries, which are not selected.

 
Contracts/Licenses

In the dialog Edit contract, tab Licenses you can now copy several licenses at once. In order to do this, select multiple licenses and click the button .

5.1.3 Tab Licenses
Contracts/LicensesIn the area of rights and type of rights you can now sort single rights beforegroupof rights. 

Folder

There is now a new tree for group folders, which can be maintained by several users. It is now possible that other users than thecreaterof a folder can haveownerrights and therefore deleting rights.

9.1 Administration of Folders

Programs/Series

The terms „Series reference“ and „Child“ have been renamed in „Main series“ and „Sub series“. Now the terms are more precise and express, that if seasons are applied as series, a link to the main series can be created by this fields.

3.3.1 Tab General
Programs/SeriesThe tab Season of the dialog Edit series now contains the field Production episode. This field contains the episode number of the tab Episode. Additionally, you can add the episode number of the season in the field Episode of the tab Season.Production Episode, 3.3.3 Tab Season
Programs/SeriesWhen copying a program, all program versions are copied as well. 
Programs/Series

Series types are now shown in the tree Series in the search area. This means, that you can now specifically search for series types.

1.1.1.2 Tab Content
Programs/Series

In the dialog Copy asset you can now select the asset type.

3.1.6.1 Creating an asset for a program version/trailer version
Programs/SeriesIn the dialog Edit programs, tab Materials, the column Attributes has been added. This enables you to see the attributes of the materials in this tab.3.1.7 Tab Materials
Material

In the tab Documents  you can now download one or more documents by pressing the button .

3.1.4. Tab Documents
Material

The button Opens the licenses to the current article has been added to the dialog Edit article. This makes it easier to open the licenseof an article.

6.7.1 Tab General
MaterialIn the dialog Edit asset, tab Ad cuts under Edit positions, the field Comment has been added, so that you can comment every single ad cut.6.3.5 Tab Ad Cuts