What is it about? 👀

The new 'Now-Next-Later' Purple Roadmap Page provides a clear overview and facilitates better planning and prioritization of upcoming features on our publishing platform. Unlike traditional timeline roadmaps that impose strict deadlines, the Now-Next-Later format focuses on flexibility and responsiveness to your needs as a customer and business opportunities.

How it works

Our roadmap feature allows you to upvote, comment and track upcoming items, fostering a collaborative environment where your feedback directly influences product development. This participatory approach ensures that the final product is closely aligned with market needs and your expectations as a Purple Customer.

Your benefits 🤓

Flexibility in Product Development
The roadmap is divided into five stages - Under Conisderation, Later, Next, Now, Done - allowing our product team to focus on immediate tasks while staying adaptable to future changes. By avoiding the rigidity of fixed deadlines, we can remain agile and responsive to market trends and changes, providing you with the features most relevant to your business success today.

Enhanced Decision-Making
The new roadmap aids in making more impactful decisions by keeping an eye on your needs and enabling you to take part in the decision-making process on which features are the most impactful for you as our customers.

Key Facts 🔑

• The new roadmap page is password-protected. Send us a message to receive your password.
• Visit the Purple Roadmap Page
• 👉 We recommend bookmarking the Purple Roadmap Page to make it easy to access: https://roadmap.purplepublish.com/

What is it about? 👀

The Purple Publish Status Page monitors Purple systems, quickly identifying operational issues and ensuring ongoing communication on resolution. By subscribing, you receive system alerts, updates, resolution status and final incident reports when a system failure is detected.

Stay up to date about the system status

Subscription to System Alerts

Subscribe on the Purple Publish Status Page to receive notifications via email or SMS about system issues, including updates on resolution and final reports. The alerts keep you informed without needing to report incidents yourself.

Status Widget on Purple Support Helpdesk

If the Purple Platform has operational issues, a Status Widget will appear on the Purple Support Helpdesk, alerting you to errors and linking to the detailed Purple Publish Status Page.

Your benefits 🤓

The Purple Publish Status Page informs you with real-time updates and automated alerts, so you don’t have to monitor system statuses or report issues. Using the system alerts ensures that you focus on your work and know that any problems are being promptly addressed.

Key Facts 🔑

• Visit the Purple Publish Status Page and subscribe directly to updates
• 👉 We recommend bookmarking the Status Page to make it easy to access: https://status.purplepublish.com/
• Find a summary on the Purple Publish Status Page in the Purple Docs

What is it about? 👀

To increase the security of your access to the Purple platform, we have developed a Multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanism. By enabling this feature, you must confirm your identity using a second device (like your smartphone) when logging in to the Purple platform to prevent misuse of your credentials. In addition, if you want to make MFA mandatory for your entire team, Purple Manager provides an option to enforce Multi-factor authentication for all team members.

Multi-factor authentication in Purple

Your benefits 🤓

Multi-factor authentication significantly reduces the risk of unauthorised access, even if your password is compromised. It provides an extra layer of security to ensure that only authorised users can access and make changes to your Purple platform. This additional barrier is precious in protecting against potential breaches. Enforcing MFA across your team is a convenient way to ensure all internal users adhere to your security standards.

Key Facts 🔑

• Multi-factor authentication ties to Single Sign-On and can be set up in either Purple Hub or Purple Manager and then is applied to that user across Purple.
• The following third-party authenticators are supported to verify the user's identity: FreeOTP, Microsoft Authenticator, or Google Authenticator
• Learn in our Purple docs, how to enable Multi-factor authentication as a user
• Learn in our Purple docs, how Multi-factor authentication can be forced for a whole team

What's new? 🆕

This new bundle of templates for Purple Apps and Purple Experience offers a range of features to help your business succeed with our Purple Publishing suite. Improvements include enhanced performance, a new way to test events in your analytics tool, and revised offline behaviour for a better user experience when reading content offline.

Purple App Template 10.5

• Support for Dossiers in the App
  With this new App Template, the Purple Dossiers content binder is now fully supported in the App Experience. This content binder type helps you to efficiently collect and present different types of content in your Purple Hub for all channels. It can contain multiple content types and combine content at different workflow stages, such as a mix of published and unpublished articles. Enable Purple Dossiers to be displayed in the App via the 'Content Component' in the Purple Experience. Learn more

• Tracking Event logging
  To better understand the events logged in your App Analytics, you can enable debug logging of raw tracking events. This feature is available exclusively on the preview version of a Purple App or Purple Website. Learn more

• Optimization of queries
  We have changed the default behaviour of most queries in the Purple Experience, resulting in improved performance, especially for large queries. Please note that custom functionality that relies on the "totalCount" value of queries may break due to this change.

Purple Experience 3.5.0

FEATURES APP & WEB

• Support of Google Analytics 4
  From now on, Google Analytics 4 is fully supported for Analytics in App and Web in the Purple Experience. Learn more

• Consent Management Integration Refactoring
  Revision of the integration of the Consent Management platforms - if you notice something that does not work as usual, please do not hesitate to contact us.

• Analytics Integration Refactoring
  The App and Web Analytics integration has been overhauled to improve efficiency and performance. We have tested all changes thoroughly, but if you notice any discrepancies please get in touch with us.

FEATURES APP

• Offline Behaviour Improvements
  There is a new mechanism to inform readers that they are not connected to the Internet and have limited access to the app content. Learn more about the Offline Behaviour in Purple Apps

• iOS Privacy Manifest
  As iOS apps are required to include a privacy manifest for each SDK that potentially tracks user data, we address this by including the required document in the Purple App itself and each SDK it contains.

• iOS Dynamic Resource Download Update
  According to Apple's guidelines for iOS, we are now informing the customer whenever they need to download or unpack additional resources to continue using the app. The app user will see a new dialogue displaying the size of the dynamic resources to be downloaded. This dialogue appears only once, after a fresh app install, on the first app start, showing the content size of the requested dynamic resources. Learn more

Key Facts 🔑

• App Template 10.5 is the new standard Purple App Template (see support matrix)
• Find the App Template 10.5 release notes here
• 10.5 will only work with a Purple Experience version > 3
• We recommend using the latest Purple Experience and Purple App Template to ensure a stable and flawless product.

What is it about? 👀

The new Special Characters feature in Purple Hub allows you to include a wide range of Special Characters in your articles, improving accuracy and flexibility for all your publishing needs when creating content.

Insert Special Characters into an article

Your benefits 🤓

Enabling Special Characters in Purple Hub enhances your experience when editing text, enabling accurate representation of foreign languages, mathematical and scientific notation, and technical content. It supports proper typographic usage, including smart quotes and hyphens, and is essential for financial symbols and legal content.

Key Facts 🔑

• Special Characters are available in the Purple Hub and can be activated whenever you are ready.
• To activate the feature, you need an Administrator role. Learn how to enable it
• Every user in Purple Hub can use the feature, when creating content. Learn how it works

What is it about? 👀

Introducing a fresh look and feel and streamlining the login process across Purple Editorial, we have completely rebuilt Purple's Single Sign-On. Now you can effortlessly access Purple Manager, Purple Hub and the Purple Content Cloud Explorer with a single login, saving you valuable time. Logging out works in the same way: if you log out of one of the three modules, you'll also be logged out of the other two.

One Sign-On across the Purple Editorial modules

Your benefits 🤓

Benefit from a seamless sign-on mechanism across Purple Editorial: By logging in once, you can now access all three Purple modules, saving you time and clicks when using the platform.

Key facts 🔑

• We completed the roll-out of the new Single Sign-On on 18 March, from now on you will see the new login for Purple Manager, Purple Hub and Purple Content Cloud Explorer.
• After the roll-out, you will be logged out of all Purple Editorial components once. Just login again, your credentials will of course remain the same.
• If you experience any problems with the new login, simply open a ticket via our Support Helpdesk.

What is it about? 👀

Let us introduce you to Custom Blocks within Purple Hub, a feature to create your own reusable content blocks and seamlessly integrate them into your Gutenberg Editor block library. Custom Blocks allow you to design a new block, set its functionality and distribute it throughout your Purple App and/or Website.

In summary, Custom Blocks work like a joker card: You are free to choose what you want to display and how you want it to look. So if you can't find what you're looking for in the Gutenberg Block Library, a Custom Block is the solution to your specific needs. You can even use these blocks to display third-party content, such as affiliate content or product information from a Product Information Management (PIM) database. In the following example, our Custom Block serves to display product information.

Usage of Custom Blocks

Your benefits 🤓

Custom Blocks reflect your brand's unique design preferences and allow you to define reusable components that align with your corporate identity. This ensures a consistent and cohesive presentation for recurring content elements such as authors, teasers, intros, affiliate content or product information.

Key facts 🔑

• Find here a nice inspiration for promoting your contents inline in an article with Custom Blocks
• Custom Blocks are supported from Purple App Template 10.4 and the Purple Experience from Version 3.0. Learn more
• An Admin Role in Purple Hub is needed to create Custom Blocks. Learn how to set it up

What is it about? 👀

We want to show you a convenient way to promote your content within articles: Inline Custom Blocks in Purple Hub give you the opportunity to create awareness for existing content directly in your related articles. This approach works for any content type, such as articles, videos or galleries.

Reusing your content to promote it in an article is easy

Suppose you want to write an article about Nordic food. In this article, you want to promote an image gallery 'Street food gallery 2023', that was published last week. Your goal is to highlight the gallery so that the readers who are engaging with your new article continue their path onto the related article.

1. Create your article and add the 'Custom Inline Gallery Block' to your article.
2. Choose the content you want to have displayed in the inline block from the dropdown, e.g. a gallery about Street Food.
3. Have the content you selected displayed in your inline block.

Benefits 🤓

• Engage your readers: By seamlessly promoting related content within your articles, you keep readers exploring, leading to more engagement and longer lasting visits.
• Reintroduce forgotten pieces: Highlight older or lesser-known content erffortlessly within relevant articles to save time and resources while bringing valuable material back into the spotlight.
• Easy-to-use integration: Adding Custom Blocks is simple and intuitive, making them accessible to your entire newsroom while maintaining consistency across all your content.

Key Facts 🔑

• The basis of the setup are Custom Blocks in Purple Hub
• To enable the above scenario, talk to us so that we can set it up for you. You can open a ticket to request the setup on our helpdesk
• Custom Blocks are supported from Purple App Template 10.4 and the Purple Experience from Version 3.0 learn more

What is it about? 👀

We have completely revamped the post overview in Purple Hub, giving it a fresh new look and some additional customisable filters so you can tailor it to the specific needs of your newsroom. Once enabled, the new post overview is applied to all post types in the Purple Hub, including articles, pages, issues, dossiers and all custom post types.

Configure filters and columns

Your benefits 🤓

With the introduction of the new post overview, your content management experience is enhanced with a contemporary design and a more user-friendly interface including customisable filters. It can be configured to meet the specific needs of your newsroom and even display your custom fields (ACFs). You will also experience improved performance when searching and filtering your posts.

Key facts 🔑

• The new post overview is already available in your Purple Hub to be activated by an Admin, whenever you are ready. Learn here how to enable it
• The customisation of the post overview is in detail described in this article
• Learn how to make your custom fields (ACFs) filterable in the post overview in this article

What is it about? 👀

Configure an automatic, consistent citation style in Purple Hub! Now you can choose your default citation style, ensuring your content reflects your brand's unique identity. Setting it up is simple and takes just a few clicks.

Your benefits 🤓

Ensure brand consistency with a unique quote style that perfectly matches your brand identity. Save time and effort by automatically applying your preferred citation style during editing, improving efficiency and workflow.

Key Facts 🔑

• Requirements: Setup is simple and can be done in a few clicks by an Administrator in Purple Hub. Learn more
• Define your style: Use hexadecimal Unicode numbers to represent your desired quote character. You'll see a preview of how your quoted text will look.
• Existing articles: Your existing articles won't be updated automatically. However, when you open and edit them, the quotes will be adjusted accordingly.

What is it about? 👀

In response to recent incidents affecting import throughput times for the ingest of E-paper content, we now released a new version of the Purple Importer. This update brings significant improvements, ensuring smoother daily import processes and minimizing application errors.

What has changed?

1. Optimized Processing Logic:
We have improved import job processing to reduce errors and ensure smooth daily operations. By evenly distributing processing capacity, we prevent overwhelming the queue with mass uploads. Additionally, we prioritize items scheduled for publication within the next two days, regardless of their set priority.

2. Enhanced Architecture:
To avoid slowdowns during peak loads, we have upgraded the Purple Importer to a stronger architecture, enhancing its performance and dependability. The new setup on cutting-edge infrastructure accelerates import jobs and adds flexibility, ensuring you a smooth operation even during high volumes of simultaneous imports.

These measures were implemented promptly to rectify recent incidents and to ensure the uninterrupted operation of our import processes. With these enhancements, we remain committed to providing you with a robust and efficient import experience.

Key facts 🔑

• For the sake of transparency, we have described how the importer works in detail in this article.
• To ensure a smooth and error-free workflow when importing e-paper content, activate the Purple Importer Alert Service.

What is it about? 👀

We would like to draw your attention to the Purple Importer Alert Service. This feature enables automatic email notifications to keep you informed of any import errors, ensuring a smoother workflow for your content imports. We encourage all customers who use the Purple Importer but have not yet activated this service to do so now. Contact us and we will gladly set it up for you.

How the Purple Importer Alert Service works

Your benefits 🤓

Stay Informed: Receive immediate alerts for CSV file errors and publication date issues, allowing for prompt resolution. The setup is easy, simply reach out to our Support Helpdesk to activate the service.

Key facts 🔑

• Alerts are triggered for syntax/formatting errors in CSV files and discrepancies in publication date format.
• Tailor alerts to your publication schedule for timely notifications and efficient error resolution.
• Learn more about the Purple Importer Alert Service in this article

What's new? 🆕

This new bundle of templates for Purple Apps and Purple Experience brings you a variety of helpful features that we hope will help you make your business more successful using our Purple Publishing suite:

Purple App Template 10.4

• Better caching behaviour
  We have implemented an improved caching strategy for news apps that reduces the total amount of storage used, to avoid large databases on your users' devices, making the Experience for your users lighter and faster.

• Consent Management with Usercentrics
  With the integration of Usercentrics, you now have an alternative 3rd party consent management provider integrated into Purple that works for Purple Apps. Learn more about Usercentrics on their website.

• Tracking with Snowplow and Piwik Pro
  As alternative options to meet your tracking needs, we have implemented two new innovative and GDPR-friendly providers which work on mobile devices and your website. Find out more on the providers' websites: https://snowplow.io/ and https://piwik.pro/

Purple Experience 3.1.0

FEATURES APP & WEB

• Bundles
  We introduce a new content component supporting content binders like Purple Issues or the newly introduced Purple Dossiers feature from now in the Purple Expierence.

• Custom Blocks
  The Purple Experience allows you to display Custom Blocks created in the Purple Hub in your Purple App and website. Thanks to Custom Blocks, you can add unique features and functionalities to your site that may not be available in pre-built blocks. Learn more

• Automatic setting of Aria labels that are used for links
  To improve accessibility, images can have an aria-label attribute. For images that link to a post, this uses the post title, otherwise it fills with the value of the alt attribute. Learn more about Aria labels

• Google Ads refresh
  If you use Google Ads in your Purple Experience, you can profit from the newly implemented refresh mechanism. This behaviour allows you to display ads one after the other and set the interval between them. Learn more: Control ad loading and refresh in the Google developer docs.

FEATURES WEB

• Pay or okay subscriptions, aka 'Pur Abos'
  This model allows users to access content for free on the condition that they agree to tracking. Alternatively, they can subscribe to your offers without tracking as they consume your content. As these two options remove the ability to read your content by neither paying nor being tracked, offering this subscription can lead to a much higher opt-in to tracking and save your valuable advertising revenue. In Purple, we have implemented a provider called 'Traffective' to offer such a service in Web using their CMP and ad service. If you would like to enable this for your Purple Website, contact our Customer Success team.

• Coupon function now also available for web
  Coupons created via the Purple Manager can now be activated by your users in app and Purple powered websites, granting a seamless user experience on both channels. Learn more

• Optimisation of Lighthouse Score and Core Web Vitals
  The Lighthouse Score and the Core Web Vitals have increased, granting you SEO advantages, as this Experience release includes various factors such as the automatic setting of Aria Labels for links (improving accessibility), the optimisation of performance scores by changing the loading behaviour of JS scripts and better configuration options for images. Learn more about Core Web Vitals and the Lighthouse Score.

Key Facts 🔑

• App Template 10.4 is the new standard Purple App Template (see support matrix)
• Find the App Template 10.4 release notes here
• 10.4 will only work with a Purple Experience version > 2 
• We generally recommend using the latest Purple Experience and Purple App Template to ensure a stable and flawless product.

What's new? 🆕

As 2023 draws to a close, we want to treat you to perhaps the most exciting new development of the year: Purple Prompts is the brand new GPT 4 integration for the Purple Hub to speed up your editorial work with the power of AI. It allows you to create drafts faster and automate downstream tasks after text creation.

Purple Prompts is seamlessly integrated into Purple Hub, located right next to your article in the sidebar and allows you to edit your articles with just a few clicks: Choose one of our well-established out-of-the-box prompts or use one of your own customised prompts, such as 'Suggest Reader Engagement Tactics' or 'Rewrite Press Release' and save valuable time when creating your stories.

That's how Purple Prompts helps you create articles

Benefits 🤓

• Efficient editorial workflows: Purple Prompts, integrated with GPT 4 in Purple Hub, speeds up writing while keeping the editorial workflow centralised in your CMS. Editors stay focused and avoid the tab-switching hassles typical of AI tools, maintaining existing formatting while using AI suggestions.

• Prompt control: Purple Hub's prompt management interface allows newsroom creators to easily add custom prompts as buttons directly into the article sidebar without coding. This ensures consistent use of prompts across the team.

• Language flexibility: Support for German and other languages extends the capabilities of the GPT 4 integration beyond English content and delivers excellent linguistic results.

Key Facts 🔑

• If you are not using Purple Prompts yet, we are happy to enable it in your Purple Hub for free. Just send us a note
• Learn more about our beneficial use case for turning inbound press releases into articles in just a few clicks
• See Purple Prompts live in Action in our Webinar Recording
• Find here the answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) around Purple Prompts

What is it about? 👀

We want to introduce you to a super future-looking use case that combines two of our latest Purple Hub features with some AI magic to reduce your press release rewriting workload: Create rewritten articles from inbound press feeds in Purple Hub with just a few clicks using our brand new GPT 4 -powered Purple Prompts feature.

We developed this use case in close collaboration with a well-known German tabloid and hope it will give you some inspiring insights into how Purple Prompts can be used in your newsroom.

Use Purple Prompts and Purple Wires to turn press releases into articles

1. Integrate a police press feed into your Purple Hub effortlessly via Purple Wires for seamless operations, eliminating context shifts.
2. Once the police feed is in, receive press releases as standalone articles within Purple Hub.
3. And here's where Purple Prompts shine: using customized prompts like 'Rewrite press release', your article is swiftly rewritten in your voice directly in your Purple Hub.
4. Just review and publish, creating press release articles in your tone with minimal effort.

Benefits 🤓

• Rewriting without effort: seamlessly import press releases into your CMS with Purple Wires, then quickly turn them into articles using personalised prompts with Purple Prompts. This streamlines content creation by reducing manual rewriting time.

• Tailored publication voice: easily customise articles to match the style and tone of your publication. With personalised prompts, you can maintain consistency and resonate with your audience while turning press releases into engaging articles.

• Increased focus on original stories: automating rewriting tasks with Purple Wires and Purple Prompts frees up time for editors. This enables a shift towards creating compelling, original content, allowing more energy to be devoted to core storytelling efforts.

Key Facts 🔑

• If you are not using Purple Prompts yet, we enable it in your Purple Hub for free. Just send us a note
• Learn more about Purple Prompts
• Learn more about inserting press releases with Purple Wires in Purple Hub

What is it about? 👀

We introduce you to Purple Wires, a feature that will simplify your process of aggregating content within the Purple Hub. Easily pull press releases from wire services such as Reuters or Bloomberg into Purple Hub! The feature fetches press releases, allows you to convert them into feed articles and edit them in the Gutenberg editor, where you can rewrite, enrich and publish them.

Your benefits 🤓

Instantly access press releases from your preferred wire services without leaving Purple Hub, streamlining your workflow and eliminating the need to switch platforms. Convert these releases into editable articles within the familiar Gutenberg Editor for an efficient editing and publishing process.

(Almost) automate press release revision with Purple Prompts

If you revise press releases using the GPT 4 integration Purple Prompts, you can even automate almost the entire press release revision process. Learn how to turn press releases into articles in just a few clicks using Purple Prompts.

Key facts 🔑

• This feature is already available to you in Purple Hub. Administrators can easily set up and manage wire services themselves. Read the documentation
• Import supports XML, RSS and JSON formats, with customisable import mapping schemas.
• Authentication methods can be a custom service or simple credentials for secure access.
• Configuration options allow automatic publishing, assignment to specific post types and scheduled article retrieval.

What is it about? 👀

Let us show you an efficient way to monetise your content a second time using the new Purple Dossiers feature:

Suppose you have already published content of particular interest, such as several articles about street food in your Purple Hub. This content may have partially been published in several issues and others as individual articles over the last 5 years. With the Purple Dossiers feature, you can now create a 'Special' on this topic by combining all these articles into a publication e.g. a 'Street Food Special' and promote it as a special deal to your subscribers.

This is an easy way to monetize your valuable past material and delight your users with specials on their favourite topics.

Reusing your content to promote as a Dossier is easy

Benefits 🤓

Repurposing and re-promoting previous content can be an attractive way to generate additional revenue. Thanks to the new Purple Dossier content format, using previously published content in a new context is a resource-efficient practice and done in a flash. It can also be a real treat to your users offer your audience an exclusive range of content on their favourite topics.

Key Facts 🔑

• Learn more about Purple Dossiers
• The usage of Dossiers is in detail explained in our Purple Docs.
• If you wonder what the difference between Dossiers, Issues and Collections is, we have summarized all you need to know in this overview.

What is it about? 👀

Introducing the latest update: the Dossier feature. This new content binder allows you to efficiently assemble content in your Purple Hub by compiling and presenting different types of content to your readers.

Unlike a Purple Issue, a Dossier can contain multiple content types and combine content at all workflow stages, e.g. mixing published with unpublished articles.

Usage of Dossiers

Your benefits 🤓

Dossiers are versatile, accommodating all contribution types and allowing for a diverse mix of content within a single compilation of assembled content. For example, you can compile previously published content into a new content binder tailored to specific interests.

Key facts 🔑

• Find out here how you can monetise your content a second time by using Dossiers. Learn more
• Learn more about Dossiers in the Purple Docs
• Dossiers are already available in your Purple Hub, learn how to enable the feature
• If you wonder what the difference between Dossiers, Issues and Collections is, we have summarized all you need to know in this overview.

What is it about? 👀

The Purple Growth Sidebar is your intelligent, AI-powered companion in the Gutenberg Editor within the Purple Hub. It gives you real-time insight into the article you're writing, helps you create SEO-optimised content, and saves you time when searching for entities or related content in your Purple Hub.

Check your Keyword Coverage

You can establish phrases (keywords) which are significant in the article and ensure that the text encompasses them. As you write, the Purple Growth sidebar will provide real-time feedback on the coverage of these keywords, assisting you in optimising your article. Besides, we have added a new feature that allows you to synchronise your keywords with tags.

Recognition of entities in your article

Entity Recognition identifies 'entities' (including places, organisations, people, events and more) from your article as you type. It's like an assistant that keeps track of the most important topics discussed in your text. By clicking on any entity in your Purple Growth Sidebar, you can access detailed information and even a handy link to Wikipedia (if available), allowing you to delve deeper into your research. You can also promote any entity directly to a keyword by clicking the link-button next to it.

Get recommendations for related articles

While you're working on your article, our system scans your database for relevant similar content and presents the results in the Sidebar. You can easily explore these articles to gain insight into what you or your colleagues have written on the same or similar topics. As a little bonus, you can easily copy the article URL and seamlessly insert it as a link into your current article to create an internal link.

Your benefits 🤓

We've designed the Purple Growth Sidebar to provide a series of delightful AI-powered helpers during the article creation process. We want to help you stay in the creative flow while you focus on your primary task - writing your compelling story - and the goal is to minimise the need for you to leave your article while typing, ensuring you have everything you need right at your fingertips.

The Purple Growth plugin for the Purple Hub

Part of the Purple Growth plugin in Purple Hub, the Sidebar integrates seamlessly with your Purple Hub, adding its AI-powered helpers to your Purple CMS with ease.

Key facts 🔑

• The Purple Growth Sidebar, like all our AI applications, is licensed separately - talk to us to enable it in your Purple Hub.
• Our team can set up the Purple Growth Sidebar feature for you quickly and easily.
• Learn more about the Purple Growth features in the documentation

What's new? 🆕

In the Purple Growth Sidebar of the Purple Hub, you can conveniently synchronise your keywords with the tags in your article. Your keywords will be added automatically as tags in the article settings. When this feature is activated, the keyword list becomes the primary source for managing tags, while the tag list in the article settings is in read-only mode.

Your benefits 🤓

Managing keywords and tags in one go is a great time-saver while organising your article; It ensures that all your keywords are organised as tags, without manually verifying their coverage between both functions, the keyword list and the tag list.

Key facts 🔑

• The Purple Growth Sidebar, like all our AI applications, is licensed separately - talk to us to enable it in your Purple Hub.
• Our team can set up the Purple Growth Sidebar and the 'Synchronisation of keywords and tags' feature for you quickly and easily.
• Learn more about the Purple Growth sidebar in this article

What's new? 🆕

We are pleased to announce the first official public App/Experience Template release for the new Purple platform: The Bundle Release featuring the Purple App Template 10.3 and the Purple Experience 2.2.1. Within this bundle, you will find several valuable new features, capabilities and two adaptations to meet the latest requirements for both Apple and Google operating systems.

General changes

• The combination of Purple App Template (from 10) and Purple Experience (from 2) is the first to allow you to play out the Purple Experience on the web as a server-side rendered web application. This approach has the advantage of high performance and SEO optimisation. In addition, your users will benefit from a better user experience as they will see the same look and feel in the app and on the web. We have already demonstrated this improvement by integrating it into more than 20 successfully launched customer projects.
• Curated collections: When using Purple Hub, you can curate lists of articles to display on your homepage or any other overview page. The Purple App Template 10 and Experience 2 is the first to support this new logic to display your curated lists in the app and on the web. Since collections are dynamic lists, this new feature gives you a whole new way to keep your overview pages up to date without touching them one by one.

App Template 10.3

Time-based issue deletion
We have added an option to automatically delete issues from the user's device based on the time elapsed since they were last read. Besides limiting the number of issues, you now have the additional option to set a specific period for deletion. Learn more about this feature

Compliant with Google's latest consent requirements
Google's new Consent Management Platform requirements for ad serving specifies that the Consent Management dialogue in App and Web must appear before the App Transparency Framework dialogue. App Template 10.3 includes an adaption to comply with this new requirement from Google. Read more in the blog post

Ready for iOS 17
App Template 10.3 includes an adjustment that allows you to make your apps available on the Apple App Store with iOS 17, which will get released around September. Only App Templates without the newly deprecated 'Newsstand Kit' will work when downloaded to an Apple device updated to iOS 17. By updating the template, you ensure that your live applications are updated to reflect this change and still work on your user's devices.

Consent Management with Consent Manager
With the integration of Consent Manager, you now have an alternative 3rd party provider for Consent Management integrated into Purple that works for both app and web. Learn more about Consent Manager on the provider's website.

Integration of the Clever Push SDK
We now support a push messaging provider that works for mobile apps and the web, providing an alternative to Firebase. Learn more about CleverPush at the vendor's website.

Purple Experience 2.2.1

Generic widget integration
A new container in the Purple Experience allows you to integrate any 3rd party widget into the Purple Experience to make it visible for both the app and the web. For example, you could use it for comments, podcasts or advertising.

Support for the Weekli widget
Weekli is a German brochure management provider. Integrating it allows you to outsource your brochure management to a specialised service and display it to your users in your Purple App or Web frontend. Learn more about Weekli

Configure dynamic paths
You can configure the paths in the Purple Experience for both Purple App and Purple Web to your liking, with the flexibility to create a customised URL and align it with your brand identity. Learn how to configure it in this Docu article

Support for Google Tag Manager
By integrating Google Tag Manager for Analytics into your Purple App or Web Experience, you can easily add and update tags without modifying the underlying code, making configuration faster and more efficient. Learn more about Google Tag Manager at the vendor's website.

Key Facts 🔑

• App Template 10.3 is the new standard Purple App Template. Find the Release Notes here.
• Submitting your apps with it will be mandatory before September to comply with the latest requirements from Apple and Google. It's already available for you to update your app in Purple Manager.
• 10.3 will only work with a Purple Experience version > 2. We strongly recommend using the latest Purple Experience 2.2.1 to ensure a stable and flawless product.