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

fantastic. i started copying and pasting like a crazy man and randomly discovered that if i only put the ? before the "cc" and then used "&" for each line of stuff it worked.

thanks so much for your help on this one. i didn't know what the ? meant, but now i do and it makes much more sense.

Its actually similar to quickbase urls, they define a path and then they always have a  ? and the rest is parameters telling it what ti do.

how do i make QB return to the record after initiating the MailTo fuction?
when i'm editing the record i click the button and i'm advised to save my record first. Outlook opens correctly, but my QB form goes to a blank page.

Can you post your current formula?

"MailTo:user1@domain.com"

&"?cc=user2@domain.com; user3@domain.com; user4@domain.com"


&"&subject=Subject - "&[field name] &" - Site #: "&URLEncode([Site #])&" - Site Name: "&URLEncode([Site Name])

&"&body=user1,"&"%0A%0A"&
"Please send package for this site to:"&"%0A%0A"
&[Address]

not tested, but try this.

var text URLONE = "MailTo:user1@domain.com"
&"?cc=user2@domain.com; user3@domain.com; user4@domain.com"
&"&subject=Subject - "&[field name] &" - Site #: "&URLEncode([Site #])&" - Site Name: "&URLEncode([Site Name])
&"&body=user1,"&"%0A%0A"&
"Please send package for this site to:"&"%0A%0A"
&[Address];

var text URLTWO =
urlroot() & "db/" & dbid() & "?a=dr&rid=" & totext([record id#]);

$URLONE & "&rdr=" & URLEncode($URLTWO)

Is it possible to embed a table of child records when creating an email like this?

No. I don�t think so.