Generic Lists
Unlike user lists and mailing lists, generic lists do not have content requirements. To use generic lists, a site developer must customize your application.
Generic lists can contain anything, and they can include headers, as in the following example:
| ProductID | ProductName | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Socks | 100 |
| 2 | Shirts | 20 |
You may want to use generic lists to set product properties. You run the Commerce Server Product Sales report to identify the most popular products (in terms of sales) on your Web site. You then use the List Manager module to import the result of this report as a list of products, and use the Catalog Editor module to set a property on these products that identifies them as strong sellers. You can then use this property to create target expressions, or to increase the price of these products by five percent.
Another way you can use generic lists is to mail coupons to your frequent online users for use in your brick-and-mortar store. You can do this by running a report to analyze user purchases, exporting the results of the report as a list that includes the mailing addresses, and then using List Manager to export this list for use in a labeling application.
See Also
Managing Lists of User Records
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