Send to Data Extensions
- Click Subscribers.
- Click Data Extensions.
- Under Actions click Send. The send option only displays for sendable data extension. To determine if a data extension is sendable, check the Sendable column on the data extension grid or check the Used For Sending field on the data extension properties.
- Click Next.
- Select the email to send.
- Click Next.
- Choose Recipients Dialog Box - the lists previously selected will already be checked. Optional, you can add or remove groups and lists in this step. Select the target recipients you wish to send the email to. Can you send to lists or group, or data extensions with an associated publication list, or an Audience with an associated publication list, or a Data Filter with an associated publication list. Depending on the features enabled you may see different options. We recommend sending to a maximum of 50 lists. If you exceed that number you may have trouble viewing tracking for that send. When sending to data extensions or an audience check, De-duplicate subscribers by email address you do not want subscribers to receive multiple emails.
- Select the target recipients you wish to send the email to. Can you send to lists or group, or data extensions with an associated publication list, or an Audience with an associated publication list, or a Data Filter with an associated publication list. Depending on the features enabled you may see different options. We recommend sending to a maximum of 50 lists. If you exceed that number you may have trouble viewing tracking for that send. When sending to data extensions or an audience check, De-duplicate subscribers by email address you do not want subscribers to receive multiple emails.
- Click Next.
- Choose Excludes and Suppressions Dialog Box This box allows you to refine your recipients and is an optional step depending on your business needs. This option is only used when some subscribers are selected as recipients but you do not want to send to them. Any recipient that is listed as a target audience and listed on an exclude or suppression list will not get the email. Select the subscribers to exclude or suppression from this send. This box allows you to refine your recipients and is an optional step depending on your business needs. This option is only used when some subscribers are selected as recipients but you do not want to send to them. Any recipient that is listed as a target audience and listed on an exclude or suppression list will not get the email. Select the subscribers to exclude or suppression from this send.
- This box allows you to refine your recipients and is an optional step depending on your business needs. This option is only used when some subscribers are selected as recipients but you do not want to send to them. Any recipient that is listed as a target audience and listed on an exclude or suppression list will not get the email.
- Select the subscribers to exclude or suppression from this send.
- Click Next.
- Send Options Dialog Box Subject - Select the Insert Dynamic Content icon next to the subject line to send a dynamic subject email. Select the Insert Personalization icon to add personalization to the subject line. Preheader - Preheader is text displayed after the subject line when an email is previewed. The preheader can be modified in email properties. From Options: If to choose a specific email address from which you want to send the email message,click the top radio button next to Use the following from name and address. Select the fromname and address in the drop-down menu. If to use a send classification, click the radio button next to Select a sendclassification and select the send classification from the drop-down menu. Override sender profile with: - Determines whether theinteraction uses a different sender profile than what is specified on the sendclassification. If you select this checkbox, you must select a sender profile to use. Override delivery profile with: - Determines whether theinteraction uses a different delivery profile than what is specified on the sendclassification. If you select this checkbox, you must select a delivery profile to use. Ifthese options are not available in your account contact your account representative to haveit enabled. Send Options: Allows you to select Send as Multipart MIME. The system sendsboth the HTML and Text version of the email, including the text version you have created,and whichever version is accepted by the subscriber's email client is delivered. IfMultipart MIME is not enabled in your account contact your account representative to haveit enabled. Allows you to select Track all links found within this email. Ifyou select this checkbox, the system collects tracking on the links. Allows you to select to Suppress this send from reports. If youselect this checkbox, the email is sent to the designated list without the job appearing inreports. The job is automatically added to the Test Send Emails folder. Allows you to select Enable send logging to a data extension. IfSend Logging is not enabled in your account representative to have it enabled. Allows you to select the Tracking Destination folder. If youselect a predefined folder, the job will automatically be placed in that folder at the timeof send. Testing Options - If this feature is enabled in your account, the Email Send Wizard includes an option labeled Send All Emails to. An email is generated for each subscriber and delivered to a single test address that you specify. The key benefit of this option is that you are able to see exactly how each email looks to each subscriber. If you used personalization strings or dynamic content in the email, each email contains the data specific to the targeted subscriber. Emails that you send to a test list or via the Email Send Wizard's test option are charged to your account in the same way as any emails that you send to your subscribers. Keep in mind that the test email address receives as many email messages as there are subscribers on the list or group selected. If the lists and groups you select contain many subscribers, using this feature may not be a feasible option contact your account representative to have it enabled.
- Subject - Select the Insert Dynamic Content icon next to the subject line to send a dynamic subject email. Select the Insert Personalization icon to add personalization to the subject line.
- Preheader - Preheader is text displayed after the subject line when an email is previewed. The preheader can be modified in email properties.
- From Options: If to choose a specific email address from which you want to send the email message,click the top radio button next to Use the following from name and address. Select the fromname and address in the drop-down menu. If to use a send classification, click the radio button next to Select a sendclassification and select the send classification from the drop-down menu. Override sender profile with: - Determines whether theinteraction uses a different sender profile than what is specified on the sendclassification. If you select this checkbox, you must select a sender profile to use. Override delivery profile with: - Determines whether theinteraction uses a different delivery profile than what is specified on the sendclassification. If you select this checkbox, you must select a delivery profile to use. Ifthese options are not available in your account contact your account representative to haveit enabled.
- If to choose a specific email address from which you want to send the email message,click the top radio button next to Use the following from name and address. Select the fromname and address in the drop-down menu.
- If to use a send classification, click the radio button next to Select a sendclassification and select the send classification from the drop-down menu.
- Override sender profile with: - Determines whether theinteraction uses a different sender profile than what is specified on the sendclassification. If you select this checkbox, you must select a sender profile to use.
- Override delivery profile with: - Determines whether theinteraction uses a different delivery profile than what is specified on the sendclassification. If you select this checkbox, you must select a delivery profile to use. Ifthese options are not available in your account contact your account representative to haveit enabled.
- Send Options: Allows you to select Send as Multipart MIME. The system sendsboth the HTML and Text version of the email, including the text version you have created,and whichever version is accepted by the subscriber's email client is delivered. IfMultipart MIME is not enabled in your account contact your account representative to haveit enabled. Allows you to select Track all links found within this email. Ifyou select this checkbox, the system collects tracking on the links. Allows you to select to Suppress this send from reports. If youselect this checkbox, the email is sent to the designated list without the job appearing inreports. The job is automatically added to the Test Send Emails folder. Allows you to select Enable send logging to a data extension. IfSend Logging is not enabled in your account representative to have it enabled. Allows you to select the Tracking Destination folder. If youselect a predefined folder, the job will automatically be placed in that folder at the timeof send.
- Allows you to select Send as Multipart MIME. The system sendsboth the HTML and Text version of the email, including the text version you have created,and whichever version is accepted by the subscriber's email client is delivered. IfMultipart MIME is not enabled in your account contact your account representative to haveit enabled.
- Allows you to select Track all links found within this email. Ifyou select this checkbox, the system collects tracking on the links.
- Allows you to select to Suppress this send from reports. If youselect this checkbox, the email is sent to the designated list without the job appearing inreports. The job is automatically added to the Test Send Emails folder.
- Allows you to select Enable send logging to a data extension. IfSend Logging is not enabled in your account representative to have it enabled.
- Allows you to select the Tracking Destination folder. If youselect a predefined folder, the job will automatically be placed in that folder at the timeof send.
- Testing Options - If this feature is enabled in your account, the Email Send Wizard includes an option labeled Send All Emails to. An email is generated for each subscriber and delivered to a single test address that you specify. The key benefit of this option is that you are able to see exactly how each email looks to each subscriber. If you used personalization strings or dynamic content in the email, each email contains the data specific to the targeted subscriber. Emails that you send to a test list or via the Email Send Wizard's test option are charged to your account in the same way as any emails that you send to your subscribers. Keep in mind that the test email address receives as many email messages as there are subscribers on the list or group selected. If the lists and groups you select contain many subscribers, using this feature may not be a feasible option contact your account representative to have it enabled.
- Click Next.
- Schedule Send Dialog Box Send Email - This box allows you to select whether to send your email Immediately or Later. If you choose Later, you can select the date and time of the send. Send Throttling - Send Throttling allows you to select a range of hours during which you want to send your email. A Start and End time required. You can also specify how many emails you want to send per hour during that time. Contact your account representative to have it enabled.The system sends emails during the hours you specify every day(starting the day you send the email) until all the emails are sent. When using SendThrottling, you should not schedule the email in the upper half of the dialog box. Sendthrottling overrides scheduling, but scheduling the email can corrupt the send throttleprocess. It's imperative that you either schedule the email to send in the future or selectthe Send Throttle checkbox. The system begins processing the email send job at thestart time you specify. The send is not spread evenly between the start and end times. Thesystem continues sending during the specified time range until the send is complete or the endtime you specified is reached, whichever comes first. If the end time is reached before thesend is complete, the system will continue the send the next day at the same start time. Thisprocess continues until the send is complete. You can use Send Throttling for thefollowing reasons: To control inbound traffic to a website, meaning, the interest generated by email may result in server crashes due to too many people visiting. To limit the number of emails sent to a particular domain each hour.
- Send Email - This box allows you to select whether to send your email Immediately or Later. If you choose Later, you can select the date and time of the send.
- Send Throttling - Send Throttling allows you to select a range of hours during which you want to send your email. A Start and End time required. You can also specify how many emails you want to send per hour during that time. Contact your account representative to have it enabled.
- To control inbound traffic to a website, meaning, the interest generated by email may result in server crashes due to too many people visiting.
- To limit the number of emails sent to a particular domain each hour.
- Click Next.
- Confirm Send Dialog Box This box allows you to review the summary of your email's information before sending. If there are validation errors, you see the Validations errors dialog box.
- After verifying all the information is correct, select the This information iscorrect check box and click Send.