How does Conditional "in Contact's List" work?

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I’m trying to include a block of text in an email using the Conditional:

If Contact’s List Contains [text]

Does that just mean : if ANY of the titles (descriptions) of the lists they are in contain [text] then this is true?

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Just tested, that is apparently NOT how it works.
It tested with my own Contact. It did not pick up “Course”

Here is a screenshot to explain a bit more:

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Hi Clay (@bungalowsoftware),

It appears to be the conditions set. I would try “Contact’s list” equals “Speech-Language Home Treatment Course.”

Just tried that with a test version on my account and it worked.

Let me know if it does not work for you though,

Perry

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Hmmm… are you sure that’s the text you used?

Speech-Language Home Treatment Course.

You included the period?

I tested with the actual name of the list (above but without period) with “MrAnalogy@gmail.com” and it didn’t work (didn’t merge)

Contact’s List appears to only include ONE list, not ALL lists.
I included the %LISTNAME% field in the email so I could confirm that the above list was in there.
But it only merged ONE list name.

Can you add a second List for the Contact you’re testing and see if YOU see both Lists displayed with %LISTNAME% ?
If you confirm the above, then I’ll post as a Bug with support. (Not sure what the benefit of only showing ONE list

Here are the lists for that contact (MrAnalogy@gmail.com)

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And here you can see the Lists that the %LISTNAME% contains:

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Hi Clay (@bungalowsoftware),

A couple things could be going on here:

  1. Depending on how you are testing this may or may not work, eg: using a random test email not in the account won’t work. The email used to test has to be a contact in the account for the conditional data to work.

  2. For the list you have to use “IS”. Contains works for other fields, but I believe lists it won’t. You can just add multiple conditions instead of using contains.

  3. %LISTNAME% will use the list being sent, and if it’s multiple lists, it will use the oldest available list (in order of creation)

Perry

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  1. The test Contact I used is in my List.
  2. I did use “IS”
  3. That makes sense. Not a useful field though :frowning:

Did you try this with a Contact that is in TWO lists, and using an AND: “list equals LIST12” AND list equals “List2” ?

Thanks@

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Hi Clay (@bungalowsoftware),

I did try that with a Contact that is in TWO lists, and using an AND: “list equals LIST12” AND list equals “List2” and it worked for me.

Not sure what the problem is, but I think it might be best for you to contact support at this point so they can figure out what exactly is going on.

Once you figure it out with them I would be interested to hear what the issue was.

Perry

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I’m having the same issue… trying to add a text-block only for people that are not on a specific list.
For that purpose I made sure that my test email IS on that list and set the condition to “Contact’s List Does Not Equal (Is Not) LISTNAME”, but the email still displays the block. :confused:

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Depending on how you’re testing this could or might not work, eg: the usage of a random check e-mail not in the account gained’t work with free email generator tools like https://temp-mail.org/en/. The electronic mail used to check has to be a contact inside the account for the conditional facts to paintings.