Keep Your Campaigns Organized with Away Status
We're excited to introduce a new feature that helps you better manage your journalist database and maintain professional communication standards: Away Status.
What is the Away Feature?
The Away feature enables tracking when journalists are temporarily unavailable. When a journalist is marked as away, they're automatically excluded from future email campaigns until their return date. This helps keep your outreach organized and ensures you only reach out to journalists who are actively working.
Key Benefits
Better Campaign Organization
Automatically exclude unavailable journalists from campaigns to avoid sending emails to contacts who are on leave, sabbatical, or otherwise unavailable. This keeps your outreach organized and maintains professional communication standards.
Clear Visual Indicators
Instantly see which journalists are away with visual indicators across all views. A subtle blur overlay and orange "Away" badge make it immediately clear when a journalist is unavailable, along with their return date and reason.
Campaign Safety
When creating campaigns, the system automatically detects and flags away journalists before sending, giving you the option to remove them and prevent accidental sends to unavailable contacts.
Visual Indicators
When a journalist is marked as away, you'll see clear visual indicators:
- Blur overlay covering the journalist's card or row
- Orange "Away" badge displaying the return date and reason for absence
These indicators appear across all views (list, grid, and table) so you can quickly identify which journalists are temporarily unavailable.
Campaign Protection
When building a campaign and moving from Step 5 (Email Review) to Step 6 (Review & Send), the system automatically:
- Detects any away journalists in your campaign
- Shows a warning modal listing all away journalists
- Offers to remove them before sending
This prevents accidental sends to unavailable contacts and helps maintain your professional communication standards.
Where It Works
The away feature is available across all journalist views:
- PR Database (list, grid, and table views)
- Collection pages (all view types)
- Campaign creation workflow
What This Means for You
The Away feature helps ensure your campaigns only reach journalists who are actively working. When you see a journalist marked as away, you can be confident they've been automatically excluded from campaign sends, keeping your outreach organized and maintaining professional communication standards.
If you have any questions about the Away feature, our support team is here to help!