Hello. I've been in the museum/Tessitura world for 5 weeks now. Recently I did the courses for lists and extractions.
I'm wondering if you could share how you use lists, versus how you use extractions. What purposes are you using these features for? Thanks in advance.
I have a very specific feeling about lists and extractions (segmentations).
Lists are a cluster of Constituent IDs. Often they are defined by a small set of parameters eg:, having seen a show, not in a particular etc. They are often used to filter a utility, graph or report
Extractions are an ordered series of criteria designed to cluster people in a hierarchy. Extractions often start with a standard suppression (another extraction that you import). The following lists form segments that catch constituents in little pools like water flowing down stream. That's why I like to talk about it as a waterfall. If a Constituent is caught upstream then it won't appear again in a down stream pool. It's great for planning whole appeals and campaigns. It can be used for conditional blocks in emails if you want to talk to different groups in different ways.
But please, if at all possible, never make an extraction that is just a series of other lists suppressing each other. It's my pet hate. It's impossible to extract logic from and ends up being a bunch of circular illogic.
What a great analogy - the waterfall! Makes so much sense to picture it that way!