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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In your profile page, you can now turn on a variation in the way the membership records are laid out (in the third column, under the search box). UPDATE June… Read More…

Cameo includes a security check to help prevent cross-site request forgery. This can occasionally show up as a “false-positive” – that is, you get a security message when there isn’t a… Read More…

As of 4 August 2017, the way Cameo vets your password has changed. Previously, like a lot of sites, there was an attempt to get you to use a strong… Read More…