Every year, many of us come up with New Year's resolutions. Even if you don't, you have to admit, it's always exciting to make plans for the future.

That's exactly where we find Comosoft as we continue to turn customer ideas into new features. This includes how to seamlessly incorporate existing print workflows into your web, email, mobile, social and all other upcoming sales channels - all from LAGO.

As we begin the New Year, helping our customers manage these challenges continues to be deeply engrained in our feature development planning process. We are excited about developing new sales channel features because we know it helps our customers create significant sales opportunities. Like these new and emerging channels, we are also very excited to be apart of this ever-changing industry.

In addition to this newsletter, we will be keeping you posted on the specific status of new developments, version release schedules, tradeshow schedules, customer conference information, new staff additions and the occasional staff profile.

We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to serve you and look forward to visiting your sites throughout the year.

Please note our 2011 release schedule:
APRIL RELEASE:
Release Day: April 11

JUNE RELEASE:
Release Day: June 27

SEPTEMBER RELEASE:
Release Day: September 26

DECEMBER RELEASE:
Release Day: December 19

We wish all of you a successful and prosperous new year.

the Comosoft-Team

Assignment of user groups to LAGO Web modules
With the increasing number of modules available in LAGO web a method of reducing the number of modules that a user can see is needed. This is now achieved by assigning the individual modules to user groups thus making the module available to all users within that user group.
Available from LAGO 4.1.2 onwards.

Bold font display in the LAGO Explorer text editor
Text which is formatted within the InDesign or QuarkXPress page with a bold font will now be displayed bold within the texteditor of LAGO Explorer. This change only relates to bold fonts, other custom font faces will not be displayed.
Available from LAGO 3.12.5 onwards.

Color management within documents
The managment of colors between documents has been optimised when copying components from one document to another. It is now possible, via the central configuration, to specify what should happen if the component contains a color definition that does not exist in the target document.
Available from LAGO 3.12.5 onwards

No of images per page is configurable
When printing images together with the image data from the image light table, it is now possible to specify how many images are to be printed on each page, this function can be used to improve the readability of the image data text when outputting all data fields
Available from 3.12.5 onwards.

Did you know that LAGO can do your complete in-store advertising? With the new WebApps in LAGO4 you're able to share your data easily and directly in your stores, saving time and money.

The necessary data is already stored in your ERP system and inserted into LAGO via automatic import. You can create multiple templates using InDesign and QuarkXPress as usual and insert placeholders for data such as article details, texts, product images and logos. Share your templates via the browser based application LAGO POS so that your employees can select a product and a template to generate a complete in-store advertisment dynamically. LAGO will do the rest and fill the template automatically with texts and images. The finished layout can be printed directly from the web. The 100% up to date product data based on your ERP guarantees a flawless workflow. LAGO POS will be available in 2nd quarter of 2011. Click on the image above to watch a tour about in-store advertising.

Tutorial: Sorting of articles within tables per drag&drop
With a little bit of preparation you're able to sort your articles within tables easily per drag&drop. All you need is a table matrix with criterion "article ordering" and the sorting "article ordering ascending" ... see our step by step on how it works in our tutorial video.

Since we started our facebook and twitter pages the pageviews have increased permanently. We appreciate that popularity and want to honor it as announced with an iPod shuffle on every release. No sooner said than done! Apples little music wonder goes out to our lucky winner Ann Hartenfeld at BassPro. Congratulations! Everybody else still has the chance to win with our upcoming releases. So good luck to you - the next prize draw will be in april with our next release. If you're not signed up yet but interested in winning an iPod shuffle click here to visit our facebook page or here to browse our twitter channel.