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I'm confused.  Were you EVER able to search for campaigns?   Michael ... View more

In reply to your actual question, which isn't necessarily a rhetorical one (and this is just a guess from another user): if I am recalling the timing of things with any accuracy, I believe this latest generation editor was already well into development when the ability to change a campaign name was added to the previous-generation editor.  So, the idea and capability of renaming campaigns didn't even exist in the plans for this latest version was it was mapped out.  But why it wasn't worked in while programming was in progress?  I don't know.   Over the years I have seen other useful existing features and capabilities dropped upon upgrade, and maybe this could be one reason.   Michael ... View more

I'll vote to delete some of those! ... View more

...with use of wildcards in the search string. ... View more

I also have some experience with databases, and with some other web-based products that have half a million users; yet they allow us to modify the default views and run custom SQL all day long.  Want a sort by Sent Date?  My choice.  Want Modified or Created or Scheduled Date instead?  My pleasure.  Want Alpha order with the exclusion of anything starting with the letter "S" that also happened to have a Sent Date before June 2015?  A little tinkering to create the necessary filter, but ultimately no problem.   The limitation isn't in what a product with a back-end database can do, but in what the design and programming of THIS product can do.   Michael ... View more

Which pipeline is it in?  I know they most frequently use that one that goes out to Neptune and back.  Hopefully they're using the one that only goes to Mars.   Michael ... View more

It is only the most-voted feature suggestion in the history of the Community forums.  It makes me doubt how faithfully Constant Contact prioritizes system designs/enhancements based on Community input, as they say.   Michael ... View more

What are we voting on? Was this change put into production or not?   Michael ... View more

It's as painful as if they pulled them out with pliers, isn't it? ... View more

CostumeC, I locate it on page 6 of this thread.  Thanks.   by CostumeC on ‎04-25-2016 01:01 PM Options   I stumbled upon a way to view old emails in a simple list with pagination, like the old design had. Works with Firefox and Chrome... I imagine all browsers would work.   You already have this design and functionality. Why you don't offer it makes no sense at all.    Here's what I have to do:   1. Log in to Constant Contact 2. Go to Campaigns or View All Campaigns 3. Begin the process of Copying an email by clicking Copy 4. It asks to name the copy, just click Next 5. Don't save anything, just click the Exit button in upper left area (ignore the warning to save your work) 6. This takes you back to Home.  Now click the Back button on your browser 7. Says Document Expired. So just refresh to resubmit form 8. Now you get a clean list of all emails, with pagination at the bottom.   Why do you make this so hard, Constant Contact? You have this functionality already built, but you hide it on purpose? Make us click "View more Campaigns" a hundred times to see emails from a year ago? Makes no sense at all, doesn't seem like your new design was created by someone who actually manages and sends emails.   ... View more

Project Manager: Our new interface will be clean and sleek.  Discuss. Design Team: These page numbers are so old school, and I'll bet they're hard for mobile users to click on.  Let's do something else here, like a View More. Engineering: Huh... Yeah, we could do that. Functional Consultants: ... Design Team: Hey, where'd the functional guys go? Project Manager: Too many delays tinkering through their test scripts. We got rid of them four years ago. Design Team and Engineering: Ah, yes, we can almost remember that party!  But it sure would help to have their input on this View More thing. Project Manager: Well, how problematic for real users could such a little design change be?  Instead of all those ugly page numbers, they just have one thing to click.  Might have to do a couple of clicks, but surely that's all there is to it. Engineering: Yeah, give us the specs, we're good to go. ... View more

Any campaigns you had in your account prior to 2013 have been deleted.  As for the Jump-to-Page, I agree. ... View more

No.  But I'm lucky we usually just do a monthly newsletter.  Organizations that do weekly or daily (and I won't even think about those that do more than one a day) must find it impossible to act like professionals.  I export six months worth of Sents and Opens; import into Access after some editing; compile everything after some more editing; and run a query to identify those who were sent the prior six newsletters but who opened none of them.  Ok, I admit it, it's such a pain that I sometimes do it only once a year instead of every six months.   Michael ... View more

Those seconds of waiting really add up.  If you poll your users, I'd bet 90% don't need the default view to spend time automatically selecting the Active list.  Change the default not to run a select statement so that there's no delay in getting into the Search Contacts box, which is where I always want to start.  For the 10% who want the Active list pulled, require them to click on Active rather than having everyone else wait.  Ok, maybe it's not a 90/10 split.  But if you combine this problem with users' common complaint about losing their place in lists after going into a specific record and then backing out, I bet we might be close.  I'll put $50 on the table right now.   Michael ... View more

Yeah, that's the kind of flexibility I'm talking about!  Many users would benefit by being able to customize little settings like this.  I'd like the designers to think in terms of maximum flexibility for users when they do their programming. +1   Michael ... View more

Unfortunately they programmed almost no flexibilty into the view-and-sort-by-heading features.  It's a major system deficiency.  And the reprogamming to make it what users truly need would be quite significant, I imagine.    To do any meaningful work and reporting I export everything I can into a .csv file.  Like just tonight, I wanted to look at the Did Not Opens for the last two newsletters combined, then the last three newsletters combined, then the last four, last five, and last six.  And I wanted to exclude from the counts based on Email Status and Tags values.  Downloaded six files, did some cleanup in Excel, then most the work after importing the files into Access.  Good thing is, I enjoy doing that kind of thing!   Flexible, customizable reporting features could be improved.   Michael ... View more