Edit Classic Automation Emails
After you start a classic automation, you can continue to edit its emails. Learn how to edit the triggers, schedules, and content of classic automation emails.
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After you start your classic automation, you'll be able to make changes to the workflow and the emails it contains. When editing the overall automation, you can pause or resume all of your emails, change your workflow settings, reorder the sequence of content, and add new emails.
In this article, you'll learn how to find and edit an active classic automation workflow.
Here are some things to know before you begin this process.
After a classic automation is active, you can no longer make changes to the workflow type or list. However, you can pause emails in an automation, individually or all at once, to make other changes.
To pause all emails in a classic automation, follow these steps.
Click All campaigns.
Click the drop-down menu for the classic automation you want to work with and choose Edit.
Now that your overall classic automation is paused, you can make changes to any of its emails. Remember that paused automations continue to build a queue, and will send to the queue when restarted.
To resume all emails in a classic automation, follow these steps.
Click All campaigns.
Click the drop-down menu for the classic automation you want to work with and choose Edit.
After your classic automation is active, you can’t change the audience. However, depending on the kind of automation you're working with, you can make a copy of an automation and send it to a new audience.
If you're working with a one-click automation, like the one-click welcome email, replication is not an option. You'll need to create a new automation to send to the new audience. Then, you can archive the original automation if you don't want to send it anymore.
To change the audience in a classic automation, follow these steps.
Now that you have selected a different audience, you can make additional changes to the automation before you start sending. You may want to resume or archive the original automation.
In your classic automation settings, you can rename your automation, change your From name or From email address, choose different tracking options, and more.
To edit most types of classic automations in Mailchimp, follow these steps.
Click All campaigns.
Click the drop-down menu for the classic automation you want to work with, and choose Edit.
Click Edit Settings.
Edit your Workflow name, From name, or From email address as needed. You can also change the tracking options and other settings.
If you want to reorder the information you send, you can swap the content between two draft or paused emails in your classic automation. The triggers, scheduling, segmentation settings, queues, post-send actions, and reporting will remain in the same position.
To reorder email content in a classic automation, follow these steps.
Click All campaigns.
Click the drop-down menu for the classic automation you want to work with and choose Edit.
After you start a classic automation, you can continue to add new emails.
After a subscriber completes an activity-based automation, we continue to hold them at the end of the automation queue. Although a subscriber can only move through an automation once, they'll receive any new emails you add to the end of the workflow. If you don't want queued subscribers to receive the new email, use segmentation to filter them out.
To add an email to an active classic automation, follow these steps.
Click All campaigns.
Click the drop-down menu for the classic automation you want to work with, and choose Edit.
Click Add Another Email.
Continue through the Email Designer to create your automated email.
Repeat this process to include up to 100 emails in your automation.
When you archive a classic automation, you permanently end the automation and keep its report data. This is a great option when an automation has run its course and you want to maintain the campaign report, or save the workflow to replicate later.
After you archive a classic automation, you cannot restart it. If you want to resume your automation later, pause it instead.
To archive a classic automation, follow these steps.
Click All campaigns.
Click the drop-down menu for the classic automation you want to work with, and choose Archive.
You can find your archived classic automations in the Archived folder on the Campaigns page. We’ll create the folder the first time you archive an automation.
When you delete a classic automation, you also delete its report data. Automation reports give insights into how automations perform, and can help you understand how to improve subscriber engagement. To save this information, archive your automation instead, or export your report before you delete anything from your account.
To delete a classic automation, follow these steps.
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