It should be possible to remove a hidden smart group from recipients of a mailing that has been copied
If you create a mailing by copying another mailing that was sent to search results, it is impossible to remove the hidden smart group from the recipients of your new mailing. This can be frustrating, because your intent in copying a mailing may not have been to send it to the same contacts, rather to re-use the content. With Mosaico, you can't easily duplicate the content, so this is a pain.
Ideally, hidden smart groups would be mandatory for the original mailing and could be removed for copies. However, that isn't possible because mandatory groups are simply included groups that are hidden.
Options I see:
- Don't include hidden groups when copying a mailing. Would solve this issue, but then some users are going to expect identical recipients when they copy a mailing because they are copying the mailing in order to resend to the same recipients, changing the content.
- Add a Copy without recipients option. This seems like it would add UI complexity for something pretty specific.
- Allow hidden smart groups to be removed from mailings in general, with a confirmation. This feels like the best option to me. Maybe I've started a mailing from search results and later decide I don't want to send it to those search results. Clearly we want to prevent users from removing a hidden group by accident, but as an intentional decision the user confirms, I think this makes sense. Would have to look at how to handle the unsubscribe group in this case.