Using categories as segment filter

[PixelGarden]

Segments is a great way to decide exactly which users to send mails to, but one functionality I am missing is to be able to add segments based on categories.

Adding the category field as possible segment filter would be really helpful.

[putyourlightson]

Thanks for the suggestion. What operators do you see being most important, for example, "is", "contains", etc. since a category field can contain zero or more categories.

[PixelGarden]

Thanks for getting back to me.

I would like to be able to use it similar to the relatedTo condition in a query.

So let's say we have some category fields attached to the user object in Craft. Then I add the same category fields to Contacts in Campaign.

After importing & syncing users the category fields are successfully copied/populated from the Craft users -> Campaign contacts.

Then, when setting up the segments I would choose a category to filter on and select a category (or multiple) value as filter.

I created a mock-up to visualise it. If I would choose Subscription as segment filter and select a value (in this case "Launch promo", it would select only the contacts which have a "Launch promo subscription".

Does that make sense?

[putyourlightson]

That doesn't quite answer the question, but makes sense in general, thanks for clarifying.

[bencroker]

Just an FYI that this is possible to achieve using conditions in Campaign 2.