{"id":6627,"date":"2013-10-01T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T18:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/?page_id=6627"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:06:18","slug":"address-distribution-list","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/knowledge-base\/address-distribution-list","title":{"rendered":"Address Distribution List Template"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Click here<\/a> to access the legacy version of this documentation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Address Distribution List Template is a special retrieval template, used exclusively in conjunction with the Messaging and Scheduled Task utility<\/a> to send emails messages to a table driven list of email recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applications created with this template are not expected to be ran in the browser by the end-user, but rather to be consumed within m-Power’s Messaging and Scheduled Task utility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Creating a new Address Distribution List retrieval<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Template <\/strong>Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Below lists out all the template features offered by the Address Distribution List retrieval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/strong>Tables\/Fields<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here you will see\/modify the table(s) you have selected for your application, as well as have the ability to create or modify joins to other tables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about the Tables\/Fields section, please see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Field Settings<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Here you will find the settings for all the fields in the application. You can find out more in detail about these options here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/strong>Dimensions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here you can select the field that your application will sort by at runtime; you can have multiple Dimension fields. You can re-order the Dimension fields to fit your application\u2019s needs. For practical purposes, it does not matter what you opt to use as a dimension field(s) within this application, as long as your application contains at least one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Dimensions, please see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Filters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Filters can be created over any database fields or calculations. They allow you to restrict the records that will be returned from the database at runtime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Filters, please see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Calculations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Calculations are a very powerful feature of m-Power; with calculations, developers can create logical fields that will apply to the current application only. For example, in the Address Distribution List template, you may want to create a conditional calculation to create your email group field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tip: Multiple email addresses fields can be concatenated together via a calculation, so long as they are separated by a comma. Ex: user1@email.com,user2@email.com<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Calculations, please see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>External Objects<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This feature allows developers to connect m-Power application with their current business logic, or to extend m-Power capabilities by allowing developers to write their own Java, RPG, or SQL programs, and integrating these programs into the applications. m-Power utilizes “locations” to connect the external objects, these locations vary depending on what the external object does and when it should be executed. The following locations are supported in this template:<\/p>\n\n\n\n