About Distribution Lists

A Distribution List is an easy way to distribute content to multiple recipients by citing a list that contains the individual recipients rather than entering each recipient separately into a schedule. You can create a series of lists that target specific recipients relevant to your organization. These lists can be used and reused with any ReportCaster schedule. Distribution Lists can be made available to all ReportCaster users (public lists) or restricted for your own use (private lists).

A ReportCaster schedule can distribute content to multiple recipients through a:

A Distribution List can be a list of:

As a ReportCaster user, you can view any public Distribution List, but are restricted to editing only the lists that you own.

To access the Distribution Lists interface from the ReportCaster Development interface, click the Distribution Lists tab. The following image shows an example of the Distribution Lists tab.

Distribution List

From the Distribution Lists, you can:

This section explains how to create and edit Distribution Lists, and how to use the burst feature with a Distribution List. This section also explains how to create an external and dynamic Distribution List.


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