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Section 3 User Preferences
Section 3 User Preferences
The Preferences menu on the Toolbar allows individual users to save and change their account’s user settings. The user can define specific preferences for the way LISTSERV Maestro’s user interface appears on the screen as well as setting defaults for the way content is input for new jobs and reports.
3.1 User Interface Preferences
The following options are available to you in order to customize the User Interface.
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Date and Number Formats – Select the date, time, and number format for the User Interface from the drop-down menus.
Figure 3-1 Date and Number Format Preferences Screen
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Display – From each drop-down menu, select the tab that will be at the front (i.e. active) when the screen is initially opened.
Figure 3-2 The Display Preferences Screen
3.2 Mail Jobs Preferences
The following options are available to you in order to customize new mail jobs.
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New Mail Job – Set the preferences for defining a new job, including the default Job ID Prefix, the default delivery notification, and the default Team Collaboration settings.
Figure 3-3 The Job Definition Preferences Screen
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Recipients – Select the default recipient type for new jobs
Figure 3-4 The Recipient Preferences Screen
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Content – Select the default content type (Plain Text or HTML), default template, default drop-in tags, as well as the default character set encoding. Elect to have HTML messages default to having alternative text or not using the options buttons, and select whether or not to use the HTML Editor.
Figure 3-5 The Content Preferences Screen
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Tracking – Select whether tracking will be on or off for new jobs.
Figure 3-6 The Tracking Preferences Screen
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Delivery Test – Enter a default test line for all outgoing delivery tests.
Figure 3-7 The Tracking Preferences Screen
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Scheduling – Select the default delivery type and the default time zone for new jobs.
Figure 3-8 The Tracking Preferences Screen
3.3 Report Preferences
The following option is available to you in order to customize new reports.
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New Report – Set a variety of default report options including Report Type, Time Period, Time Zone, Download Encoding, and Team Collaboration.
Figure 3-9 The Report Definition Preferences Screen
3.4 Dataset Preferences
The following option is available to you in order to customize datasets.
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Team Collaboration – This option is only available for data administrators. Select the rights that you want to assign to an individual member. The rights selected here will be applied as the default for all new datasets that you create. New datasets will start out with these collaboration rights already assigned. You can then change the rights for each individual dataset.
Figure 3-10 Default Dataset Team Collaboration Screen
To assign multiple rights at the same time:
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Click on the name of the member to select/unselect all of the rights for that member.
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Click on the name of a right to select/unselect this right for all members.
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Click on Team Member to select/unselect all of the rights for all members.