Section 30 LISTSERV Maestro Lite

LISTSERV Maestro supports a special “lite-mode”. In this context, "lite" means that certain features are restricted (not available). The restricted features can be grouped into two categories:

•	User-feature: Features that apply to the actual LUI users, i.e. such a restriction means that the LUI user has less options/features than in the full version. For example "No drop-ins" or "No personal tracking" are restrictions that fall into this category.

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Admin-feature: Features that apply to the actual LISTSERV Maestro installation and the LISTSERV Maestro administration, i.e. such a restriction means that the LISTSERV Maestro admin has less options/features than in the full version. For example "No external system database" or "No dedicated bounce server" are restrictions that fall into this category.

The lite-mode itself can be activated in two different ways:

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LISTSERV Maestro in lite-mode: This means that the whole LISTSERV Maestro installation is running in lite-mode. In this case, both the user-feature and admin-feature restrictions apply, and they apply for all users, as well as the admin. To activate this mode, add the following entry to the hub.ini file:

LiteMode=true

Note: Configuring LISTSERV Maestro to run in lite-mode as described above is a pre-condition for lite-LAKs to be accepted during LUI login. If LISTSERV Maestro is in lite-mode, then for a LUI login either a full-LAK or a lite-LAK will be accepted. However, in full-mode, only a full-LAK will be accepted. If only a lite-LAK is found while running in full-mode, then the user will be logged in with evaluation mode just as if no LAK was present at all.

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Specific users in lite-mode: This means that LISTSERV Maestro is running in full-mode, but that for certain users the lite-restrictions do still apply. In this case, only the user-feature restrictions apply, and only to specific users (not necessarily all users). The admin-feature restrictions do not apply. To activate this mode, do not add the "LiteMode=true" setting in the hub.ini (so that Maestro by itself is running in full-mode), but instead add the following entry to the hub.ini file:

LiteModeConfigurableForScopes=true

With this setting, a new configuration section becomes available in the Administration Hub (under the Maestro User Interface settings), which is normally hidden. It is called Lite-Mode Restrictions (on group or user level) or Default Lite-Mode Restrictions (on application default level).

In this section, you can define if the account (or group) to which the setting applies will have the lite-mode restrictions enforced or not. If you enforce the restrictions on default application level, then this applies to all groups and accounts that do not specify a different setting on the individual level.

All accounts for which the lite-mode restrictions are enforced in this manner will have all the user-feature restrictions enforced. All other accounts/groups will be able to use the full feature set and the admin-feature restrictions will also not be enforced.

Note: As described above, LISTSERV Maestro must run in full-mode when using user specific lite-mode enforcement. This means, that even for users where lite-mode enforcement is switched on, a full-LAK must be available during LUI login, because in full-mode, only full-LAKs are accepted.

30.1 Current Lite-Mode Restrictions

The following sub-sections list the feature restrictions that are currently enforced by lite-mode, in their respective “user-feature” or “admin-feature” categories.

30.1.1 User-Feature Restrictions

User feature restrictions are restrictions that apply to users who log in at LUI. These restrictions apply both to normal LUI users, as well as to the admin if he logs in at LUI, unless noted otherwise.

30.1.1.1 Mail Jobs

Mail job restrictions:

Feature	Standard	Lite
Standard mail jobs	X	X
A/B-split jobs	X
Job categories (only available in 4.0)	X
Job-list filters	X	X
Forward-To-A-Friend	X
Auto-repeat jobs	X
Team collaboration settings on jobs	X
X-headers in sender definition	X
DKIM support	X
Plain text content	X	X
HTML content with plain text alternative	X	X
HTML content with AOL-format alternative	X
Conditional content parts for HTML content with alternative	X
Job-archivation by user	X
Job-archivation by admin	X	X
Auto-job-archivation settings by user	X
Auto-job-archivation settings by admin	X	X
Multi-job-actions for user	X
Multi-job-actions for admin	X	X
Authorization-due-by date	X
Target Group Recipients	X	X
LISTSERV List Recipients	X	X
Recipients Based on Reaction to the Job	X
CSV recipients	X
"Select from database" recipients	X
"Let LISTSERV select from database or LDAP directory" recipients	X
Job journal	X
Manual trigger for jobs with delivery schedule “Send when triggered”	X	X
External trigger for jobs with delivery schedule “Send when triggered”	X
Support for “View-in-Browser” URL	X

30.1.1.2 Tracking

Tracking restrictions:

Feature	Standard	Lite
Personal tracking	X
Anonymous tracking	X
Unique tracking	X	X
Blink tracking	X	X
“Open-up” tracking	X	X
“Track all links”	X	X
“Track no links”	X	X
Individual link tracking	X
Link aliases when tracking	X
Action tracking	X
Permission based tracking	X

30.1.1.3 Reporting

Reporting restrictions:

Feature	Standard	Lite
Job comparison reports	X
Job statistics reports	X
Recipients statistics reports	X
Tracking reports (report administration by admin not restricted)	X
Quick reports	X	X
Reports on the dashboard	X

30.1.1.4 Recipient Warehouse

Recipient Warehouse restrictions:

Feature	Standard	Lite
Number of datasets	No limit	1
Number of hosted lists in dataset	No limit	No limit
Linked LISTSERV lists in dataset	X	X
Categories in datasets	X
Team collaboration settings on datasets	X
Target groups based on dataset	X	X
Target groups based on hosted list	X	X
Target groups based on standard LISTSERV list	X	X
CSV recipients target groups	X
"Select from database" recipients target groups	X
"Let LISTSERV select from database or LDAP directory" recipients target groups	X
Conditions and parameters in HRL and LISTSERV list target groups	X
Derived profile fields in datasets or hosted lists	X
Direct import into dataset or hosted list from a CSV file	X	X
Direct import into dataset or hosted list from an external database	X
Predefined member importers or recipient importers	X
External download of dataset members or hosted list recipients	X
Lookup tables	X	X
Lookup table subsets	X
Lookup table secondary values	X

30.1.1.5 Utility

Utility feature restrictions:

Feature	Standard	Lite
Freely created user defined content templates	X
Template creation as copies of system templates (with less system templates to choose from) or by template upload (only templates downloaded from a lite-account or specially prepared templates can be uploaded)		X
Fully editable user defined content templates	X
Templates can only be edited in minor ways: Name, subject, certain attributes. (Template administration by admin not restricted)		X
System-Drop-ins	X	X
User-Defined Drop-ins (drop-in administration by admin not restricted)	X
Sender profiles (profile administration by admin not restricted)	X
Multiple dashboards	X

30.1.2 Admin-Feature Restrictions

Admin feature restrictions are restrictions that apply to the administration and the installation of LISTSERV Maestro as a whole.

Feature	Standard	Lite
Number of User Scopes (Scope: a single user or group, with any number of group members)	No limit	1
User Identities	X
Option to revoke “create job” right from users	X
Option to define alternative “designated job owner” for users	X
Single server install (LUI, HUB, TRK all on one server)	X	X
Distributed install (LUI, HUB, TRK not all on one server)	X
External system database	X
Dedicated bounce server	X
Daily/monthly mail limits	X
System metrics reports and daily system metrics notification emails	X