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font-size:14px; color: #000000; font-weight: bold">   Tech Tip: LISTSERV Maestro</p></td> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="349" height="20"><img src="/web/20240420012038im_/https://lsoft.com/news/issue4-2013/header4.jpg" width="349" height="20" alt="" border="0" style="display:block"></td> </tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan="2"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr><td width="100%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 1px; color: #999999; border-style: dotted; border-color: #999999; border-width: 1px 0px 0px 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px"> <p class="body"><b>Q: How can I streamline my membership area to omit unused features and options?</b></p> <p class="byline">Answer by Johannes Hubert<br/>Senior Applications Programmer, L-Soft</p> <p class="body">LISTSERV Maestro offers great flexibility to configure your membership area in order to allow your recipients to self-manage their subscriptions and preferences as easily as possible. This tech tip shows you how to streamline your membership area when your dataset only includes one list.</p> <p class="head">About Datasets</p> <p class="body">If you use LISTSERV Maestro to store and maintain your recipient lists, you do this with LISTSERV Maestro's datasets. Each dataset can contain multiple recipient lists. Usually, if you have several separate recipient lists that are related to each other, you would put them into the same dataset, while you would put unrelated recipient lists into different datasets.</p> <p class="body">For example, a company that sells their products both directly and via resellers could have one dataset for their public lists and another dataset with lists that are meant for the resellers only, with the latter lists being "invitation only", while the former are open for public subscription.</p> <p align="center"><img src="/web/20240420012038im_/https://lsoft.com/news/issue4-2013/techtip-mae1.png" border="0" alt=""> <img src="/web/20240420012038im_/https://lsoft.com/news/issue4-2013/techtip-mae2.png" border="0" alt=""></p> <p class="body">Each dataset comes with a set of ready-made public access pages for its membership area, where subscribers can join and log in to view the available lists and then subscribe to or unsubscribe from these lists or manage their existing subscription profiles. These pages also allow the subscribers to navigate between the multiple lists that are available in the given dataset.</p> <p align="center"><img src="/web/20240420012038im_/https://lsoft.com/news/issue4-2013/techtip-mae3.png" border="0" alt=""></p> <p class="head">About Single List Datasets</p> <p class="body">If, however, your dataset contains only a single recipient list, then the features in the membership area that are meant to manage multiple lists are redundant and would make the membership area pages appear unnecessarily bloated.</p> <p class="body">In such a situation, it is recommended to switch the dataset to <span style="font-weight:bold;">Single List Mode</span>:</p> <p class="body">First, open the dataset in question. Then select from the menu: "<span style="font-style:italic;">Dataset</span>" → "<span style="font-style:italic;">Edit Dataset Settings...</span>", then on the "<span style="font-style:italic;">General</span>" page, click on "<span style="font-style:italic;">Show Advanced Settings</span>", then set the "<span style="font-style:italic;">Access Pages Mode</span>" option to "<span style="font-style:italic;">Single List Mode</span>".</p> <p align="center"><img src="/web/20240420012038im_/https://lsoft.com/news/issue4-2013/techtip-mae4.png" border="0" alt=""></p> <p class="body">The public access pages for a dataset that is in single list mode are more streamlined and do not bother the subscriber with options that would make sense only in a membership area of a dataset with multiple lists.</p> <p class="body">For example, the membership area of a dataset that has only one list but that is not in single list mode would look like this, with the superfluous areas for "<span style="font-style:italic;">My Lists</span>" and "<span style="font-style:italic;">My Profiles</span>":</p> <p align="center"><img src="/web/20240420012038im_/https://lsoft.com/news/issue4-2013/techtip-mae5.png" border="0" alt=""></p> <p class="body">If set into the proper single list mode, the page instead looks as shown below. In this mode, the membership area shows all profile values and subscription options readily accessible on a single page:</p> <p align="center"><img src="/web/20240420012038im_/https://lsoft.com/news/issue4-2013/techtip-mae6.png" border="0" alt=""></p> <p class="body">While a dataset is in single list mode, you cannot add a second list to this dataset. But you can easily set the "<span style="font-style:italic;">Access Pages Mode</span>" back to "<span style="font-style:italic;">Membership Area Mode</span>" if you have the need to add a second list. Similarly, single list mode cannot be selected for a dataset that already contains more than one list. 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