Platform updates 2018

All new Maxemail versions may include background performance and security improvements. The following notes detail the visible changes to the Maxemail interface and API.

December 17, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • Line Height in Email Builder
    You can now adjust the line height in your Email Builder emails to space the text to match your ideal designs. See Email Builder adding text

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Comparison Reports
    Now see Clicks Per Open at a Comparison Report level, not just in individual Email Campaigns.
    Column selection is now remembered across your customer space, meaning your colleagues will have the same view as you, making sharing of data around the customer space more convenient.
  • New UI
    Rolling out new UI designs for Comparison Reports in both Split Tests and Recurring Emails.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • Send log sort order corrected.

November 19, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • Background Images in Email Builder
    Set background images on structural components in your Email Builder campaigns. And for those email clients which still don't support them you can set a fallback colour instead. See Background images

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Improved User Activity Reporting
    Added Creator & Approver details to a Comparison Reports to enable team leaders to report on who was responsible for creating and sending each campaign. See Comparison report

  • Improved Recipient Activity Log
    Added Transactional and SMS messages to the recipients full activity view. See Recipient data

  • Recent Activity Widget in New Style Dashboard (beta)
    Now view name of User who made each change plus ability to filter list to only most recent items for the current User.
    (New Style Dashboard is still in beta and only activated for a small percentage of accounts. Contact the Xtremepush Support Team if you wish to have the dashboard enabled for your account).

  • Removed support for IE11 to enable use of more modern browser technology. See supported browsers...

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • In some cases Formhandler script conflict with pages already loading jQuery.

October 22, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • New Style Dashboard (beta)
    Updated dashboard on login with items requiring attention, recently edited items and account activity overview. To request early access please speak to your your account manager or contact the Xtremepush Support team.

  • Rounded Buttons in Email Builder
    Set border radius on buttons in your Email Builder designs. See Rounded corners

  • Rounded Image Corners in Email Builder
    Set border radius on images in your Email Builder designs. See Rounded corners

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Update Saved Blocks
    You can now update a saved block in the Email Builder rather than have to delete and replace it. See Saved blocks

  • Form Redirect to Full Page
    If you are using a Maxemail form within an iframe on your website you can now have the form submission force the entire page to redirect to a new URL, rather than just showing the submission confirmation within the existing iframe. See Form properties

  • Email Credits Remaining - Wording Change
    Changed Unlimited to read Contracted for clarification reasons.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • Form pre-population fails for values containing double-quote

  • Failed inbox testing items text reads 'fail' but still shows pass icon

  • Not possible to select trigger emails in Comparison Reports

  • Cannot open token dialogs in Controlled editor

September 24, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • Email Builder Saved Blocks
    Create reusable sections within your emails and save them for reuse in different campaigns. See Saved blocks

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Updated Template Creation Interface
    Continued improvement of Maxemail UI.

August 28, 2018

:high-brightness: Improved

  • New Comparison Report Interface
    More wizard driven style to set up Comparison Reports in Maxemail. Easier access to Scheduling options to receive regular reports by email.

  • Combine AOL and Yahoo as Oath
    To reflect the merge of AOL and Yahoo into the new brand, the Email Provider criteria and example Segments have been updated to display as Oath.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • Special characters in a Recipient's email address are correctly encoded when linking to a Form.

  • Error when uploading a ZIP file with very high compression.

July 30, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • Hubspot Integration (beta)
    Connect your Hubspot account and use your Customer Database in your Maxemail marketing campaigns. See Hubspot

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Preset Date Ranges
    Let Maxemail set dynamic date ranges based on simple selections such as Yesterday, Last Week, Last Month. See Data exports

July 02, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • Email Breakdown Reporting By Device
    You can now view engagement with your email campaigns on a device level (desktop, tablet, phone). See Device breakdown

  • Scheduled Data Exports
    Send Data Export Reports directly to your secure FTP on a scheduled basis. See Data exports

  • Recipient Delete Webhook Event
    Webhook event to inform external platform when recipient deleted. See Webhooks (Dev guide)

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Search
    The main customer space search has been moved and improved. See Search

  • Snippet Editor
    The snippet editor has been updated to match the new style interface as used in the Email sections.

June 04, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • Microsoft Dynamics Integration (beta).
    Connect your Microsoft Dynamics account to allow you to manage your marketing campaigns in Maxemail as well as updating the subscription status of your Dynamics Contacts when a matching email address globally unsubscribes from a Maxemail email. See Microsoft Dynamics

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Form Builder
    Now set the width of forms created within Maxemail and centre them on the page. See Form properties

May 06, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • CAPTCHA on Subscriber Bar Form
    Protect your subscriber bar forms from bot attacks with CAPTCHA added by default.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • New Data Export Setup tab not scrollable.

  • Open not tracked for Transactional emails where a click happened but client has images turned off.
    (Also backfilled all erroneous stats).

April 08, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • HTML Profile Field Types
    More intuitive way to instruct Maxemail not to encode your HTML content when stored in profile fields. See Field types

  • Dedicated Transactional Send API
    New developer API to allow sending of component email parts which then allows Maxemail to handle building the completed email. See Transactional API (Dev guide)

  • Record and Show Recipient Import Info
    Maxemail now shows date/time and source of import for Maxemail as well as the first and last seen date/time in each individual list. Helpful to keep track of where your Recipient data is coming from and when it last arrived.

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Remove support for un-encrypted Links
    Un-encrypted links (pre-June 2015) now show message to contact sender rather than forwarding recipients on to the page.

  • Removed incorrectly available lunsub option from triggered emails.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • Email activity report shows 1 too few intervals within time period.

  • ROI option still showing on accounts without the feature enabled.

March 11, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • Form Handler CAPTCHA setup and process handling
    Prevent unwanted submissions to your forms using the latest Invisible reCapture from Google. See CAPTCHA validation

  • Activity Chart to SMS
    See recipient engagement over time for all SMS sends.

  • Initial configuration for Auto Delete Recipient
    With GDPR being enforced soon Maxemail continues to add helper features to stay on top of your data management.
    Our team will be in contact soon to explain the setup and use of this feature.

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Recipient Search
    You can now search for all records, regardless of list assignment.

  • New Data Export UI.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • Split Test reporting does not show opens/clicks until re-opened.

  • Split test send immediately validation stops approval even if emails are already complete.

  • Changing Split Test status not logged in Activity Log.

  • Copying a base email results in a standard email that thinks it's recurring.

  • Navigation tree nodes can be renamed/deleted while busy.

February 11, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • SMS Click Tracking
    Track interaction with links in SMS messages. See SMS track links

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Added individual link tracking option to Email Text Editor.

  • Use current time instead of midnight as default time when scheduling a message.

  • Added deprecation message for IE11 users.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • Remove redundant code in Builder HTML.

  • Unexpected results when filtering by "=" on decimal type profile fields.

  • Unable to login when Google Chrome auto-fills an old password.

January 14, 2018

:rocket: Added

  • New Split Test Interface
    More wizard driven style to set up Split Tests in Maxemail. Improve your setup speed and accuracy. See Split tests

  • Date Range select on Data Export
    Now you can download only the data you need, reducing the time needed to manipulate the data outside of Maxemail.

:high-brightness: Improved

  • Unsubscribe Quick Export on emails now contains unsubscribe type.

  • Downgraded un-calculated list total from 'error' to 'warning'.

  • Reduce frequency at which Email Check tests links in emails to reduce load on client websites.

:white-check-mark: Fixed

  • Preview Text showing Zero-Width-Non-Joiners.

  • Email Setup Social copy URL button incorrectly masked when email not editable.

  • Email Editor toolbar dropdown rendering issues in some versions of Safari.

:no-entry-sign: Removed

  • Breakdown report 'download CSV' icon for users without the Exporter role.