This article explains how to get a spreadsheet of selected data from a group of membership records as a CSV file. This is how you can do arbitrary reports and export data from Cameo. Read More…
Templates last sent dates
The summary list of templates in the “templates and mailshots” section has an additional column which shows the date when emails or letters generated from each template were last sent. Templates which have never had anything sent using them show ‘never’ in bold red. 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…
Sending email to event attendees
Sending emails to people who booked for an event is easier with a new button in the Reservations, Bookings and Attendance section on the Events menu . This doesn’t add anything you couldn’t do manually before, but it brings several steps together in one place.
To send email to event attendees, you need a list which selects them and a template which has that list as its audience. The email attendees button at the end of the Reservations section makes both for you in one go. Read More…
Reminder of pending email and letters
A new “un-sent items” panel at the top of the Cameo page now highlights pending emails and letters that you produce (by Merge to Pending in the Templates section, or as a side effect of some other operation, like enrolment of new members). Read More…
Tags update
Tags in items which offer them to help categorise and filter (reminder messages, file store files, templates and lists) now have a common implementation and presentation style, making things more consistent. To accommodate this in File Store, the presentation of files has been brought into line with other sets of things, with a click on a summary line revealing detail. Read More…
Templates and Mailshots section given a refresh
The templates section looks a little different and has several new features to help you find and manage templates: * Template summaries are now shown in the same “accordion list” style used in other sections. * You can filter the list on various properties, including text searching of names and content. * Vary the order of presentation. * Templates can now be assigned tags to help group and search them. * Email attachments now have their own distinct template type. Read More…
Table builder in template editor
The original button in the template editor toolbar to insert a table has been replaced by a more comprehensive table builder. This provides much finer-grained control over size and appearance of tables than the tinymce editor default. Read More…
Events: communicating with attendees
You can use lists and templates to keep in touch with people who have attended or booked for events. Tickets, lanyard badges and attendance lists also use the same mechanism. Read More…