# Best practices / Campaigns receipes

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/best-practices-campaigns-receipes/8055>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 30, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/best-practices-campaigns-receipes/8055 "2017-03-30T15:41:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yannick038](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/yannick038/32/117_2.png) [@Yannick038](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Yannick038)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/best-practices-campaigns-receipes/8055/1 "2017-03-30T15:41:04Z")

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is there any cookbook or best practices regarding standard Campaigns workflow we can design with Mautic ?  
  
The documentation part is quite poor on that (I know we can edit and add our own knowledge but I am in deed looking for experience feedbacks and improve myself rather than posting maybe false information)  
  
  
  
As I wanted to create a birthdate campaign I created a simple segment “all contacts with a birthdate” and wanted to make the test inside the Campaign builder.  
  
  
  
But on my first decision step, I found a problem :  
  
If my contact’s birthdate is in 340 days, I will not add 365 decisions step to wait until we are at the correct date.  
  
  
  
I don’t know how to create a dynamic segment like birthdate within the next 10 days to start a campaign with a first email at BD-10 days , and a second one for the birthday at BD-0 !  
  
  
  
How can you achieve that ?

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**Author:** ![Yannick038](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/yannick038/32/117_2.png) [@Yannick038](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Yannick038)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/best-practices-campaigns-receipes/8055/2 "2017-03-30T15:41:04Z")

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is there any cookbook or best practices regarding standard Campaigns workflow we can design with Mautic ?  
The documentation part is quite poor on that (I know we can edit and add our own knowledge but I am in deed looking for experience feedbacks and improve myself rather than posting maybe false information)

As I wanted to create a birthdate campaign I created a simple segment “all contacts with a birthdate” and wanted to make the test inside the Campaign builder.

But on my first decision step, I found a problem :  
If my contact’s birthdate is in 340 days, I will not add 365 decisions step to wait until we are at the correct date.

I don’t know how to create a dynamic segment like birthdate within the next 10 days to start a campaign with a first email at BD-10 days , and a second one for the birthday at BD-0 !

How can you achieve that ?