Open Default Email Program with a generated Body from Hyperlink

[Jonathan_S]

Hello Everyone,

Im in need of having the email action open the user default email, like outlook, and auto generate the email body based on a formula, (“Big string of text automatically generated in the email Body”)

Been looking around but cant really seem to find anything, might be a challenging one but needs to get done,

Thanks!!

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Are you looking for another solution rather than action settings with External start an email ?

[Jonathan_S]

lol . Yes

But I forgot to mention the most important part…
Run this action from a hyperlink in a template…,

[Koichi_Tsuji]

I dont think it is possible.

Hyperlink is just to open up URL on browser, not to fire action in Appsheet.

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Another ref which you may find useful.

Action: Email add Attachments Feature Requests

I know what you mean and what you wish to have on this Valentine’s day! If you wish to kinds of “attach” file to email which is generated by the action, probably you can do this sort of workaround. Before you start to send the email by action, you need to store the “file” you want to attach to that email action. What is the attachment file you want to send along with email? Is it file you save on that table? or any file like PDF you only can get and being generated through Appsheet workflow? I…

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Possibly you push hyperlink within templete which brings your user to a certain page / view within appheet app using LINKTOROW expression. Then they hit usual action button to fire action to get email

[Steve · Accepted solution]

en.wikipedia.org

mailto

mailto is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for email addresses. It is used to produce hyperlinks on websites that allow users to send an email to a specific address directly from an HTML document, without having to copy it and entering it into an email client. It was originally defined in Request for Comments (RFC) 2368, published in July 1998, and refined in RFC 6068, published in October 2010. "mailto" can be used within an HTML document to generate a link for sending email: Clic...

[Jonathan_S]

Awesome
Thanks!!