The minutes from the 2019 CAMS User Group meeting are now available here.

The PowerPoint presentations can be downloaded as a zip file here.

Webinars

Never attended a CAMS Webinar? Curious about CAMSv7.2? Why not check out our new Recorded Webinars page where we’ve uploaded a recording of our final 2018 session (What’s new in CAMS 7.2?). We’ll continue to upload recordings of all our 2019 series so keep your eyes on this page for future videos.

CAMS Webinars are online presentations where we focus on specific features of CAMS in more detail. Whilst they are not intended to substitute our more comprehensive courses, these sessions have proved popular and offer a chance to join a broader discussion about how these features can be used to make life a little easier for you or members of your team.

The first webinar in our 2019 program is available for booking now. The first topic being covered is ‘Public Fault Reporting in CAMS Web’ on the 12^th February. You can register for the session using this link. We’ll send through another reminder the week before the session is due to start.  

We will be using Skype for Business to present all our Webinar sessions this year. If you would like to test your ability to connect ahead of the session, please contact a member of the CAMS team or reply to this email. The latest guidance on joining a session will always be available on our How to join a CAMS Webinar page on CAMS Docs.

If you would like to suggest a future topic or have any feedback concerning our webinar series please let us know.

Cost: Free!

*New for 2019 Remote Courses*

We are now offering remote training courses as another way to save on travel costs. We have a copy of CAMS installed on a server we can offer access to. You can spend a few hours running through different aspects of training with a tutor to guide you and answer any questions. We’ll use screen sharing facilities to see what you are working on and demonstrate exercises for you to repeat.

Remote training is best offered on a 1 to 1 basis but we are happy to provide group training depending on needs. Please contact us if this might be of interest to you.

Costs: Varies with requirements. Speak to your CAMS consultant. We have an ongoing discount available whilst we explore this new training medium.

Workshop Courses

One of the highest training costs for some organisations can be traveling long distance. To alleviate this, we have previously conducted workshop courses across different regions of the country. If you are interested in training but cannot justify the cost for your team, please let us know. Providing we can find one or more nearby organisations to you a shared training day at a local destination can be organised and your travel costs lowered or eliminated.

Costs: Varies with numbers. Speak to your CAMS consultant.

Standard Courses

Our hosted courses here on the edge of the Brecon Beacons are designed to appeal to Rights of Way officers at any experience level. We offer several courses tailored to the different roles and responsibilities in your team.

If you are travelling some distance to reach us you may want to reserve accommodation – we have a list of reasonably priced local B&B’s on our website: https://www.esdm.co.uk/where-to-stay

Cost: £202pp for our 1-day courses, £404pp for our 2-day Admin course.

Specialist Courses

We are also happy to offer specialised training courses depending on your needs. Our focused course on Crystal Reports is designed to give you more control over your ability to create and update custom reports.

Do you use the CAMS Legal Module, CAMS Mobile or CAMS Web? If you have new staff or would be interested in learning more about your existing system please let us know. We can either provide training at our offices in Talgarth or discuss including this alongside your Annual Service Visit.  

As with all our training courses on offer, more details (including latest dates and an outline of what you might expect to cover during the course) are available from our main CAMS Training website. Don’t hesitate to speak to your dedicated CAMS Consultant if you would like any advice or information about a specialist training course.

Costs: Varies with numbers. Speak to your CAMS consultant.

The CAMS Help pages are being updated. New information is being added and existing information is being made more accessible. Whilst this work is ongoing there may be a small amount of instability due to the restructuring. Please let us know if you encounter any problems. If you have any questions and can't find the answers you need please don't hesitate to call your dedicated CAMS consultant for more information. 

Work has started on the release of CAMS V7.2 which is scheduled for the Summer of 2018. It is planned that this release will include improvements and new functionality in a number of key areas. The biggest improvement will be the ability to drag & drop photos, documents and other files directly into CAMS records to link them via LibraryLink. Other planned improvements will focus on results trees, My Tasks and Volunteer Management as well as features to assist with Data Protection requirements and exchanging data with the NSG.

Please contact your CAMS consultant for further information.

Our new series of webinars is due to start on the 27th February with a session covering the new Commons and Village Greens module for CAMS Desktop. Keep an eye on your mailbox as we'll send periodical reminders about all our sessions over the next few months. If you haven't attended a webinar before, why not give it a try? We are always happy to arrange a connection test if you aren't sure whether you will be able to connect. 

We have just published an update to the CAMS Documentation site skin, this improves various features around the site and forms part of a general update scheduled for roll out over the next few months. 

If you are having trouble logging in, please note that the link to login has now moved to the page footer at the bottom of the page. As always if you have any difficulties don't hesitate to contact a member of the CAMS team at cams@esdm.co.uk

A reminder that CAMS Desktop licences are free to purchase until May 2017.

These can be of particular interest if you are looking to:

• expand the use of CAMS within your team
• make the application available to more of your officers
• make better use of your admin staff by providing them with CAMS

If you are an existing public sector user but don’t have the capital budgets to buy more licenses then this offer should be of interest.

•         CAMS Desktop licenses ordered between now and May 2017 will be free of charge.
•         Any additional consultancy costs (for instance training & installation) remain chargeable.
•         Maintenance & Technical Support (MATS) contracts are required.

If would like to place an order or find out more then please contact your CAMS consultant, or Simon Allen at simonallen@esdm.co.uk or 01874 713076.

Agendas have now been sent out for the upcoming CAMS User Groups for England and Wales. The Scotland group is being arranged for slightly later in the year. Lots of exciting topics for discussion this year including recent improvements to the products and a chance to feed into the future of those products.  The groups for England and Wales will be held in Chesterfield and Llandrindod respectively.

If you are coming but did not receive an agenda click here or wish to join us, email Simon at simonallen@esdm.co.uk.

We look forward to seeing you.

The North Downs National Trail is the first of the trails to be captured into Google’s Street View and other Trails will follow soon. Many of the country’s promoted routes and national trails are managed using CAMS and the extension of Street View beyond the road network is one of the reasons we have integrated Street View with the latest version of CAMS.

To see the North Downs Street View use the link below and then drag the Street View icon (yellow person) onto the blue line of the trail when it appears.

https://goo.gl/maps/8wtShKBRttK2

For more information on Street View in CAMS contact Simon Allen at simonallen@esdm.co.uk.

We know many authorities want to make CAMS available to more users, but simply do not have the budgets to buy more licenses.

Our solution: For a limited period, additional CAMS Desktop Licenses are now free for the public sector.

See here for more information.