Cameo’s news builder now offers ready-made blocks in your publicity mailshots for multiple event summaries and single event listings. Single event listings include the event’s full description in your template. Multiple event summaries include a grid of event information (1, 2 or 3 across) including event venue and timing, thumbnail, short summary and booking and more information links. Read More…
Formatted full event descriptions
Event definitions in Cameo now include a formatted full description field. The “cameoeventslistings” WordPress plugin embeds this in your website, and news builder blocks include it in your emails. Read More…
Snippets, stationery, out box and problem emails have moved
Several sections in Cameo have been re-arranged. Reach “Snippets” and “Stationery” through links next to where they are used in templates. “Out Box” and “Problem Emails” combine into a new section “Sent Email” in “Communications”. The way they work is unchanged. Read More…
Organisation social media links
Administrators can save your organisation’s social media account URLs in the Organisation Details section on the Organisation Settings menu. These are then available as template substitutions and, in particular, in News Builder social media blocks. Read More…
Using News Builder
News Builder is a major addition to Cameo’s template editor. With it you can compose structured mailshots from a set of ready-made, customisable blocks. Edit the text and replace place-holder images with your own in the usual way in the template editor. Text can include substitutions, of course. You can save individual blocks as amended, and these carry your own text for re-use as well as colour etc. Read More…
News builder: a small button with big impact
News Builder is a major addition to Cameo’s template editor. With it you can compose structured mailshots from a set of ready-made, customisable blocks. Read More…
“Merge Individuals”
The new Merge Individuals button in Templates and Mailshots lets you add people to a mailshot after you have sent it to the rest of the template’s audience. The selected memberships alongside override the usual audience. 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…
Reports: a new template type for making spreadsheet CSVs
There is a new type of template for making reports and exporting membership records. Instead of producing an email or letter, this type of template produces a CSV file when merged with a suitable set of membership records as its audience. Read More…
Easier linking to personalised forms
Cameo now offers a button in the template editor’s toolbar to customise a link to a web page embedding one of Cameo’s personalised forms. Read More…