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KarenHenke's avatar
KarenHenke
Qrew Cadet
12 years ago

How do I create a button to initiate an email from Outlook?

I would like to create a button to add to a form that would initiate a standard email from Outlook to another QB user. The email should send a copy of, or a link to, the record being displayed in the...
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MarkShnier's avatar
MarkShnier
Qrew Cadet
12 years ago
no problem

Create a Formula email field [Program manager email] with the formula UsertoEmail([program manager]) and include that in the Mailto like

"MailTo:" & URLEncode([Program manager email])

I'm not sure if you need to URLEncode it, but it shouldn't hurt just in case the @ in email addresses is an illegal character.

As for the last part you should be able to simply have a line like

&"%0A%0A" & "Please contact me about this record "
& URLEncode (URLRoot() & "db/" & dbid() & "?a=dr&rid=" & [record ID#])