Is it possible to clone a program but not its static list's members?

[Cecile_Maindron]

Hello,

it's often easier and faster to clone a program in use than to clone the generic template because of customized filters, tokens, etc. However if I clone a program that contains a static list, then all the list members are also cloned in my new program. I have then 2 choices : either I delete the list (but that means cleasing all filters that contain the list name) or I can empty the list. I almost always do the later.

But I'm encountering 2 issues:

- I sometime forgot to check if list contains members and to remove them so this can screw my reporting if I don't notice this fast enough

- if I have a report on "was added to list", the members that have been cloned are still counted (even if I have removed them from the list)

So my question is: how do you proceed? Are you experiencing the same issue? Do you have a work-around?

Cécile

[Dan_Stevens_]

Here's an existing idea on this:

Several months ago, one of our marketers didn't realize the leads came over with the cloned program and inadvertently included them in the email send.

[Cecile_Maindron]

thanks Dan. I have now voted for idea. So I guess there is no ideal work-around...

[Dan_Stevens_]

We now have a template library of pre-built programs that our teams must clone from (which, of course, has no leads within any of the static lists).