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Adding Dates to Draft Mailings
February 18, 2011, 05:04:53 pm
We have a number of people creating mailings and some are rather lazy in cleaning up after themselves.  Therefore, it would be very helpful to maintaining the list of draft and unscheduled mailings if the date created and date last saved could be stored with drafts and displayed on the list screen so it is easy to see whether items are stale and can be deleted.   Being able to sort items by these dates would be a bonus as well.

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Re: Adding Dates to Draft Mailings
February 19, 2011, 12:30:35 pm
Took a look at this, and it seems quite useful to display Created Date (and allow sorting) - since we have it in the DB. I've added this for 3.4 (and also hidden columns that aren't relevant for draft mailings - eg. scheduled date etc.):

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-7591
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Re: Adding Dates to Draft Mailings
February 19, 2011, 01:17:18 pm
Hi Dave - just wondered if while you were incorporating the above you could be persuaded to the idea that the default order on the 'Scheduled/Sent' screen should be reset so it sorts by scheduled date
Reasons being that most often, if some one has an issue of whether the Mail has fired or not, they need to see the 'most recent' at top, but the Scheduled but not sent end up at the bottom.

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Re: Adding Dates to Draft Mailings
February 20, 2011, 08:21:13 pm
I assume you mean sort by Scheduled Date DESCENDING (if you want the latest scheduled date on top). In any case, I didn't dig in deep enough to see how to set different default sorts - but if I figure it out, I'll add it. Otherwise, maybe Eileen can take a look / file a separate issue in the queue (Draft / Unscheduled should probably be sorted by Created Date ASCENDING, and Archived by End Date ASCENDING).
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Re: Adding Dates to Draft Mailings
February 28, 2011, 03:15:27 pm
I managed to get the different default sorts working for 3.4 alpha2:

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-7652

Decided to keep all sorts to DESCENDING for consistency. The new defaults are:

Draft / Unscheduled Mailings - sort by Create Date DESCENDING (newest on top)
Scheduled / Sent Mailings - sort by Scheduled Date DESCENDING
Archived Mailings - sort by Completed Date DESCENDING
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Re: Adding Dates to Draft Mailings
March 01, 2011, 12:26:09 am
thanks for notifying us on this dave - obviously something i can't test on demo so will wait for an alpha 2 on one of our dev sites - cheers
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