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MichaelTamoush
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4 years ago

Creating a new outlook email, and including a link to a file attachment field

I've found a lot of threads on creating a new outlook email, but not sure if I have seen this exact question asked (or if so, I got lost in the rabbit hole of threads). When using the "mailto:" com...
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MichaelTamoush
Qrew Captain
4 years ago
Thanks Mark I'll give it a try. Right now I can't get my email code to produce the subject or body. Can you tell what my mistake is?

var text Subject = "This is the Subject";

var text Body = "This is the body";

//var text Email = "mailto:" & "" & "mtamoush@gmail.com" & "\n" & "?subject=" & $subject & " &body=" & $Body &"";
var text Email = "mailto:"&""&"mtamoush@gmail.com"&"\n"&"?subject="&"\n"&URLEncode($Subject) &""&"&body="&URLEncode($Body)&"";


"<a href=" & $Email & ">" & "Send Email Test" & "</a>"

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MarkShnier__You
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4 years ago
You are building a URL need to travel through the vagaries of the Internet. That means that you need to use URLEncode for any characters which are not A-Z or 0-9 and that means that \n is illegal.  

var text Email = "mailto:mtamoush@gmail.com"
& "?subject=" & URLEncode($Subject)
& "&body=" &URLEncode($Body);


"<a href=" & $Email & ">" & "Send Email Test" & "</a>"



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