Recipients: Create and manage attributes

You can show or hide, search and sort attributes. Your changes will affect 3 views:

• "Manage attributes" dialog (= current dialog)

• "Recipients" overview table

  

• Edit recipients dialog

Local browser setting: If you sort, show or hide attributes – all these settings will be saved in your current browser . As soon as you clear your browser cache or use a different browser or computer, you will go back to the default view (i.e. you will see the first 100 attributes, sorted by creation date in ascending order). Your colleagues may also have view settings that differ from yours.

Sort attributes

By default, your attributes will be sorted by creation date in ascending order. Click Sort attributes if you want to change your sorting, and sort the attributes alphabetically, for example.

Show / hide attributes

Disable the "Show all attributes" switch. You can now hide or show specific attributes by clicking on them. You can display a maximum of 100 attributes.

System columns are not visible: You cannot view any system columns in this table.

Step by step

1. Click the gear symbol in the "Recipients" navigation item.

   

2. Create a new attribute by clicking New attribute.

   

3. Enter a name.

4. Enter the data type.

   Data type	Permitted values
   Text	Text and numbers Optional: Adjust the maximum text length for the "Text" data type (maximum: 255 characters). The default value is 80 characters.
   Yes/No	Values that fit the following categories: Yes / No true / false (Boolean) and all other values that can be displayed as check boxes or radio buttons
   Date & time	Date and time
   Date	Date (without time)
   Integer	Whole numbers (e.g. "-1" or "45").
   Decimal number	(Floating) decimal numbers (e.g. "3.56" or "-0.75")

   Why the different data types?

   The right data type helps you with the following:

   • You do not accidentally enter incorrect values when editing or importing recipients.
   • You can perform certain operations (e.g. analyze monthly values).
   • You can work more easily with target group filters and case selections.
   • Structured data requires less data volume and thus Inxmail is faster and performs better.

   • You can synchronize your Inxmail data with other databases.

   Example:

   • Create attributes such as name, first name, street or city as "Text" data type.
   • Create attributes such as birthdays as "Date" data type.

5. Click Create attribute.

• You have created a new attribute.