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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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NotificationsEmail
Tables and fields
QuickBaseCoachD's avatar
QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
11 years ago
I played with it and I think that the issue is that there can only be on "?"  Typically the ? means " and here are all the parameters.
try this


"<a href=\"MailTo:"&[Emails for carrier and others separated by semi colons]

// the above text invokes the mail client, and creates the TO line

& "?cc=test@test.com"

&"&subject="
&[Carrier Subject Line] & " for Trailer " &

// the above text does the subject line, below that is the body
// the %0A is a line feed type indicator.

& "&body=" &[Carrier Body Header]