Attaching a calendar (.ics) file to emails such as booking receipts triggers many email apps to offer add to calendar automatically. These include Outlook and GMail. Read More…
Sending ad-hoc email to members
Most emails you send from Cameo are either mailshots or part of the membership life-cycle workflow (such as a renewal reminder). Sometimes, though, you want to email someone, as you would through an ordinary email app: use one-off message for these. Sometimes you find similar emails going to multiple people over time: use canned message templates for these. Read More…
News builder block for file “attachments”
The new File Links News Builder block presents links to PDF or Word files more in the manner of attachments than just a plain text link. They don’t work any differently from a plain text links: they just have a different style. Read More…
Pasting into templates from Microsoft Word
Pasting into templates from Word should no longer need you to do anything different. Read More…
Email preview: no images
You can now preview an email as it might look to the recipient when their email app does not display images. Read More…
Links to jump from one part of an email to another
You can now link from one part of an email to another. Use the {jump: …} substitution in a template to do this. Read More…
Add images to WordPress media library inside Cameo
If WordPress provides images for your emails, you can now upload images into your WordPress media library directly from Cameo. Read More…
XLSX Excel format reports
You can now get XLSX format files from report templates, as well as CSV. This also allows you to say how the column should be formatted. Read More…
Using letter and PDF templates
Letter (and PDF) templates (Fig 1), along with separately-defined stationery, offer paper-like, paginated layouts for printing or attaching personalised content. Merge membership records with a letter/PDF template to produce pages (usually in a single document) for each membership you merge with. Read More…
About image resolution
Image resolution is a measure of the density of pixels in a picture. More loosely speaking it is a measure of image quality and a trade-off between how people perceive pictures and how much resource they use. You need to know about image resolution so that your pictures look good in emails and on paper. Read More…