We’ve recently made some improvements to our export contacts functionality.

• You can now select which contacts you wish to export.  This includes all contacts, a contact group, a saved filter or a custom subset which you create on the fly using the segmentation filter.
• You can choose 5 different text file types to export to.
• You can select which fields appear in your export.
• We’ve added a progress bar while the system writes your file so you can see that the system is still active during large downloads.

On top of those changes you can also view your recent exports from the contacts dashboard and re-download the file.

Please see our step-by-step guide to exporting contacts for full details.

You can now create saved filters on your contacts database using our segmentation filter.

You can then use this filter when sending an e-mail campaign to quickly send to the specified contacts.

For full details, please see our help article on setting up a saved contact filter.

It is now possible to specify which version of your e-mail campaign (TEXT or HTML) you wish the View Online link to display.

The default view online link as shown below will always take the recipient through to whichever version they received (TEXT or HTML):

[viewonline]Click here to view this e-mail in your web browser[/viewonline]

To override this default behaviour, just edit the code as show below:

[viewonline:HTML]Click here for the HTML version in your web browser[/viewonline:HTML]
[viewonline:TEXT]Click here for the TEXT version in your web browser[/viewonline:TEXT]

For more details please see our help article about adding unsubscribe and view online links to your e-mail campaigns.

We’ve added a new feature into Suite26 today that allows you to import your e-mail campaign content directly from a URL.

Many of our customers have their e-mail campaigns designed by agencies which then host them online to view, whilst some customers design their campaigns in a program such as Dreamweaver and then host their on their own webspace for testing.

When you create a new campaign with Suite26 you simply need to enter the URL where your campaign is hosted when you reach stage 3 of the add wizard:

Suite26 will then go to that URL and get the HTML and CSS along with downloading the images into the File Manager.

After a few seconds you should automatically have your campaign content created and fully hosted within Suite26.   The import process will even automatically create the plain text version based on the text within your campaign.

All you need to do is check the content, make any final adjustments or changes and you are ready to send!