showpercents
Aurea List Manager has the ability to send particular messages to a certain percentage of members on your list. This feature is useful if you would like several advertisements rotated in your list, or if you would like a particular advertisement sent to only part of your list. The percentage chosen to receive each message is random—those delivered to first have the same chances of receiving a particular message as those delivered last.
The text block rotated may be plain text, HTML or blank.
For each text block, you select the percentage of recipients who should receive it.
The sum of all the percentages cannot exceed one hundred. In other words, if you have one text block displaying 60% of the time, and another text bock also displays 60% of the time, you receive an error message—you have 20% not receiving both messages. If you want to do so, insert two percentage conditions, each with 60% text block, 40% blank text.
The "showpercents" syntax for a percentage of recipients is one of the following:
If there is a space in the text:
%%showpercents {60 [subst {text block 1}] 40 [subst {text block2}]} uniquename%%
If there are no spaces, you can use the above code or the following:
%%showpercents {60 text block 1 40 text block2} uniquename%%
60 and 40 are the percentage of recipients who should receive each message. Text block 1 and text block
2 is the text that should be rotated. Uniquename must be a name unique on this server to label this showpercents
tag.
The "showpercents" syntax for a percentage of mailings is:
%%before ;showpercents {60 text block 1 40 text block2} uniquename%%
The syntax is the same for a percentage of recipients, but the before command is added so
that it is applied to the entire mailing. For more information about the before command, see Script
Execution Points.