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

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

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

If the back end has a healthy relational database as I understand it must, the necessary SQL could probably be dashed out before a cup of coffee got too cold.  But I imagine the difficulty would be programming those results into the rest of the product in a way that users could have at them.  I have no idea about that kind of programming and how dicey it can get when little tweaks wreak havoc across the entire system.  For example, users have overwhelmingly requested a Campaigns search feature for years, but apparently it's too difficult or dangerous to implement.  But I think your idea would be a satisfying project to improve the reporting.  If I were asked by my boss to do it, I might even be heard to utter the words, "Hey, this could be fun."   Such an enhancement would also keep me from having to do 20 hours of my own work with a custom database to get those numbers.   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

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

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