Exporting Emails for a group from Luminate

Daphne Black

Can someone let me know the best way to export a list of email address from Luminate for a particular interest group. Seems like that would be a simple thing. Please help.

Tanna Lewis

We don't use interests yet as well as we should, but I know that one way to get a list of the constituents and their email addresses is to just use Data Management > Mail Merge. First choose the outputs you want, then you can choose to restrict it by your interest-related groups on the second step of the mail merge options.


If you don't see the right group there, it is possible the interest isn't configured to rebuild a group - you can fix that by setting up a Task to segment your interest respondees into a rebuilding group. You configure that here: Data Management > Tasks > Task List tab > Create a New Task > select "Interest Segmentation."


It is a bit clunky - maybe someone out there who uses interests more knows of a quicker way or maybe a Report Writer option? But this should get the job done in the meantime!

Brian Mucha

I'd probably go with the mail merge too.


One thing to note is that when someone opts out of an interest, they are added to the opt-out group - but they are not removed from the opt-in group. There are older threads about some problems that this causes people.


So you would have to pull the addresses for the interest opt-in group, and then you would need to remove those that appear in the interest opt-out group.