Cameo displays lots of things in a summary table with more detail and controls to make changes if you expand the summary. These share a common look and feel. Many have filters and/or sorting controls in the table header. This article explains how to use these tables and filters. Read More…
How to make spreadsheet CSV reports (updated)
This article explains how to get a spreadsheet of selected data from a group of membership records as a CSV file. This is how you can do arbitrary reports and export data from Cameo. Read More…
Setting up external services for a new Cameo installation
Cameo co-operates with a number of external services for things like sending and receiving email, taking payments and offering publically-accessible forms. This article explains what is needed to set these up. Read More…
More choices for biometric and physical key log-in
Windows 10 version 1903 (currently being distributed) links logging in to Windows with logging in to web sites such as Cameo using biometric sensors or physical keys. This offers many more choices for logging in to Cameo. (There is a small change in linking your Cameo login to a key, fingerprint or whatever to support this). Read More…
Events: anatomy of a booking
Describes the information and controls provided by the event bookings list at the bottom of the Reservations and Bookings section of Events. Read More…
Next priorities for Cameo
Cameo version 7 was about forms, now largely complete, but with some aspirations for the future. Cameo 8 is about events, resource management and bookings. Read More…
Adding scanned attachments with Scanner Pro: a step-by-step guide
There’s a number of places you can store files in Cameo, and one way to add them is to scan directly using a phone scanner app. This article looks in detail about one such app, Scanner Pro for iOS, how to set it up and how to then send scans straight to Cameo. Read More…
About substitution in templates servicing forms
A flexible mechanism now allows Cameo forms to substitute multiple bits of text, images, URLs etc in any emails they may generate. (Contains some technical information). Read More…
About dates in Cameo
Pretty much everywhere you can enter a date in Cameo you can use more or less anything that makes sense, including some date arithmetic. Having said that, it’s not trying to process natural language, so there will always be some idioms that it won’t recognise. And there is always an ambiguity over US/European style dates as in 3/4/2019 – is that 4 March or 3 April?
Newly added for dates are “ago” as in “2 weeks ago” and digits spelled as words (“two” for 2 etc as in “two weeks ago”). All date fields are now treated the same. Read More…
About merging membership records
There are several circumstances when you can end up with two membership records for the same person. Sometimes this is desirable: they are in there with different roles, perhaps different… Read More…