In addition to the Substitutions menu, you can now insert substitutions into templates by clicking on captions in member and contact records. Read More…
Add to calendar links
A new substitution “{tickets: add to calendar …}” in combination with a new form type ‘calendar’ lets you offer add to calendar links in your emails for event bookings. These can be included with e-tickets, booking receipts or in later mailshots related to the event. Read More…
Email availability for multi-person memberships
Two new features are available to help target email effectively: (a) a miscellaneous search for multi-person (household) current memberships which can select those with email addresses for everyone, for just some of them, or no one, and (b) a conditional substitution {if: missing email} with which you can insert text in your template when any individual is missing an email address. Read More…
New ‘if’ template substitutions
There are several new template substitutions available: {if: [not] mailing list name …}, {if: status new}, {if: status current} and {if: status old} Read More…
Template editor: tinymce version 5
Tinymce is the rich text editor used by Cameo, for editing templates and some form text. Tinymce version 5 has been available for a while now; it will be phased in to Cameo over the next few weeks. The update includes a new substitution selection box. In the first instance, version 5 is experimental. You can turn version 5 on at the end of the Profile section: exercising the new version would be very helpful. At some point, I will reverse this: everyone will get version 5 but you can revert back to version 4 if you run into problems. Once confident it is all working, in a few weeks or months version 4 will be removed completely. Read More…