Forms made from Cameo’s contact form type now spot when someone who fills in the form is already known to you (by email address). New form options let you decide what to do when this happens. Read More…
Contact categories: improved ‘welcome’ and ‘search more’
To make it easier to limit welcome messages to those contacts that require them, and to search only some kinds of contact, contact types are each now placed in one of four categories: supporter, stakeholder, customer or representative. This replaces three separate settings for contact types: ‘Representative’ tick box, ‘Exclude search’ tick box and ‘Bookings’ Read More…
“Questions” – a form type for questionnaires, surveys, polls, petitions, consultations and applications
A new form type, “questions”, joins the stable of Cameo forms. This provides general data acquisition for things like questionnaires and petitions, or anywhere you want to collect structured responses to a set of questions connected to a respondent. Accompanying the form is a new section, “questionnaire and petition responses”, in “member info”. You can see the responses to your form in various ways there, including on bar charts, pie charts and maps. The form identifies a list to collect together the responses and uses custom fields for your questions. A new custom field lets you ask them to pinpoint a location on a map. Read More…
How to use Cameo’s signup app
This article shows how to use Cameo’s signup app. Signup is for repeated collecting contact sign-ups at an event, on a phone or tablet, for use by staff or volunteers (not the general public). It’s a special kind of web page which works offline, and, once installed, should only need an internet connection to upload the saved details to Cameo after an event (when a connection is available). Read More…
Signup app available
Cameo Signup is a web app for use by staff or volunteers collecting contacts at a gathering of some kind. It’s a special kind of web page which works offline, and, once installed, should only need an internet connection to upload the saved details to Cameo after an event. A PIN number is needed to use it: a new section in the Profile menu manages these PINs. Read More…
Question: split contacts in two?
I am considering splitting contacts into two separate categories to make the distinction between people we add and people who sign up to keep in touch. If you have any comments to make on this, please do share them. Read More…