It's not exactly clear to me what your requirements are, but I took a
half hour to cook up a sample for you using Maestro which
demonstrates radio buttons, checkboxes, and selection menus. Fifteen
minutes of that was coming up with a list of 20 "channels" :-)
Here is the list subscription page that was automatically generated
by Maestro:
http://maestro-demo.lsoft.com/list/subscribe.html?mContainer=119&mOwner=G2q2t382p&mListSeqNo=146
Try it out.
I used the same list of channels to produce 2 "single selection"
fields, one shown as a set of radio buttons, one shown as a pull-down
menu; and 3 "multiple selection" fields: one shown as checkboxes, one
shown as a multiple-select menu (use CTRL-click or SHIFT-click to
select multiple entries), and one again as checkboxes, but in this
case I made it a mandatory field so subscribers must select at least
one, and I told Maestro to use 2 columns of checkboxes instead of the
default.
This sample list is a "hosted recipient list" (HRL) which means it is
only stored in Maestro. However, you can also have "hosted LISTSERV
lists" (HLLs) so that you can have both LISTSERV's flexible header
keywords AND Maestro's data hosting facilities. HRLs can only be
announcement lists and can only be sent to using Maestro, but they
have a very flexible and easy to use target group creation Wizard, so
that you can send targeted mailings, for example to only people who
selected ABC and CBS, or who selected any of a subset of channels, or
other such targeting schemes. HLLs are basically DBMS-based LISTSERV
lists, so they can be sent to with any email client or with Maestro,
and they can be discussion lists or moderated lists or announcement
lists; they can have archives, digests, etc. But the data within the
HLL is maintained inside of Maestro.
This sample uses the default look. You can easily customize the pages
for a different look. I'll see if I can locate an example where I did
some customizations.
This was done using LISTSERV Maestro 2.1. It will become even more
flexible and even more tightly coupled with LISTSERV in version 3.0,
coming later this year. And that, of course, is another reason why
going with Maestro is better than rolling your own: we have a team of
developers working on this full-time to make it ever easier to use
and always up-to-date with LISTSERV. We have access to the LISTSERV
development team so that whenever a desired feature in Maestro
requires a new feature in LISTSERV, it gets done.
I hope this is helpful. If there are any other features you'd like to
see demonstrated, please let me know.
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Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]>
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