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What’s New for the End User in LISTSERV® Maestro 4.0

What’s New for the End User in LISTSERV® Maestro 4.0
This section highlights the new features for the End User in LISTSERV® Maestro 4.0.
Behavioral Changes to the Toolbar
The behavior of the Dataset menu on the Toolbar has been updated to accommodate those who may need to access this menu while working with lists. Because of this, there are several changes to the Toolbar. For details, see Section 2.1.1 Behavioral Changes to the Toolbar.
New Options for Determining Recipients Based on Reaction to a Previous Job
You can now choose to define recipients based on a reaction to a previous job that had its recipients defined from a target group based on a hosted recipient list or a target group based on a dataset. For details, see Section 5.3 Determine Recipients Based on Reaction to a Previous Job.
Advanced Sender Defined Mail-Header Settings
New options for defining additonal mail-headers are now available when defining the sender of an email job. For details, see Section 8.1.4 Advanced Sender Defined Mail-Header Settings.
Action Tracking
If a user enters a target website through a tracked link in an email job, then LISTSERV Maestro can now track those actions that the user performs on that website. For details, see Section 19 Action Tracking.
Viewing the Number of Tracked Links
The Completed Job Details screen now includes the number of tracked links. For details, see Section 12.4 Completed Jobs Summary.
Using the Job Journal
An email job “journal” is now available and contains a log of each activity and who performed those activities. For details, see Section 10.3 The Open Job Journal, Section 11.4 The Ongoing Job Journal, and Section 12.8 The Completed Job Journal.
Viewing an HTML Message in the Recipient’s Browser
A new system drop-in gives your recipients the ability to view an HTML message in their browser. For details, see Section15.3.1.4 or Section 16.4 View in Browser URL.
Requesting Profile Field Updates
It is now possible to create a message that asks a subscriber to update specific profile fields. For details, see Section 15.3.1.3 Profile Field Updates URL or Section 16.3 Profile Field Updates URL.
Tracking Permissions
When the new tracking permissions profile field type has been defined for a dataset, and an HRL or HLL from that dataset is used to define recipients for an email job, then your options in the Tracking Definition wizard will change. For details, see 7.4 Types of Tracking.
Triggering the Delivery of an Email Job
Email delivery can now be initiated from outside of LISTSERV Maestro. For details on how to enable this type of delivery for an email job, see Section 8.2 Scheduling Delivery of a Job. For details on how to trigger the delivery of an email job once it is enabled, see Section 9.6 Triggering the Delivery of an Email Job.
Defining Individual Delivery Times for A/B-Split Job Variants
For an A/B-split job, it is now possible to define different delivery times for each variant, which gives you the ability to test these times as well. For details, see Section 8.2.4 Scheduling Different Delivery Times for Each A/B-Split Job Variant.
Using the New Report Data Source Wizard
Defining a data source for a report is now more streamlined and user-friendly. In addition, including the new Action Events and Forward-to-a-Friend Events is now easily done with just a few clicks. For details, see Section 13.1.2 Adding a Data Source.
Using the Updated Recipients Details Report
The Recipient Details Report has been improved and is now more user-friendly. For details, see Section 13.9 Recipients Details Reports.
In addition, the Reports tab on the Completed Jobs tab has also been streamlined. For details, see Section 12.5 Completed Job Reports.
Using the New *{{Calc}} Features
When using formulas, several new functions are now available to you. For details, see Section 18 Calculation Formulas. For details on how this feature effects multiple selection fields, see Section 15.3.1.5 Multiple Selection Fields and Section 16 Multiple Selection Fields.