You can now create Specific Date and Time Lifecycles. All of the existing lifecycle templates come with the option to trigger on a Specific Date and Time or Automation.
Standard Date and Time Lifecycle
Specific Date and Time Lifecycles are displayed in the Planned Send-out dashboard
Get full visibility of all your send-outs now that the Specific Date and Time Lifecycles have been added to the planned send-out dashboard.
Lifecycle segments more descriptive
We've improved the descriptiveness of lifecycle segments to make it clearer about what's included in the segment as now shown in the activity box. The segment names are generated based on the split segments that they depend on.
Segment more descriptive
Lifecycle Quick launch for Versions
Easily add a new version to a Lifecycle in production using the quick launch feature and avoid repeating all confirmation steps.
Quick Launch
Improved Filtering added to Activities
Filtering options for Activities has been enhanced to group those activities which contain control groups or which have multiple action groups (AB testing).
Improved Filtering for Control groups and AB Filtering
Highlight non-standard SMS characters
We have now given you the option to highlight non-standard SMS characters when setting up your action. This can be turned off at any point and your preference will be cached for the next time.
We have made a number of improvements to email templates.
HTML Errors See a count of how many HTML errors are in the template.
Content Blocks and Conditions If being used by the template you will see how many content blocks or conditions are in use.
HTML Errors and Content blocks
Email Templates in use Email templates now give you the option to see which Activities are using each template.
Activities being used by template
Autosave Email templates autosave when updated and the status shows when and who made the change.
Email Template Autosave
Read more about email template best practices here.
Three dot menu added to Projects, Activities, Lifecycles and Archive sections
Access the three-dot menu to choose actions such as clone, delete, disable etc by hovering over the 3 dots.
Action Menu
Broken email warning now shows when previewing from the Planning Dashboard.
When previewing an email that has broken HTML from the planned send-outs dashboard you will now see a warning validation.
Broken Email message displayed from Planning Dashboard
Visual change to the Player Timeline for Opted-Out Players
Actions for opted-out players are now shown on the player timeline if they have been included in the segment. We have added a visual change to show that the Action was not sent.
