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MirandaMo's avatar
MirandaMo
Qrew Member
5 years ago

Send and populate email through a button

Hi, 

I am new to the community and would love to implement a button in my DEAL table where it sends out an email (i want it to prompt my outlook window) to the email linked to a different table, CONTACTS and auto-record the content that is being sent into a different table, say EMAIL.
I have created a button already like below:
"mailto:"&""&[email]&"\n"&"?subject="&"\n"&[Subject]&""&"&body="&[Body]&""
where [email] is where i want to grab the mail
and [subject] and [body] are my predefined fields in the same table

but I don't know how to
1) grab the email address that is being stored in a different table
2) save the content that was sent out attached by an ID that is the same ID as deal
3) Would it be possible to track the sender's and receivers email conversation beyond just the initial "send"?

2 Replies

  • KirkTrachy1's avatar
    KirkTrachy1
    Qrew Assistant Captain
    Hi Miranda:

    I'm not sure of you table lay out.  Is it CONTACTS < DEALS < EMAILS?

    If so, the email would probably originate in the CONTACTS table and be passed down into the DEALS table and then passed down again into the EMAILS table.  This would be done by editing the relationship and creating lookup fields to pass the email from one table to the next until you get the email into the table where you can use it.

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    • JoeAcunzo__Soft's avatar
      JoeAcunzo__Soft
      Qrew Trainee
      Hi Miranda - If you hit limitations of mailto, check out SendToOutlook.  It can handle setting of a formatted body (i.e. HTML), adding attachments, and much more.  SendToOutlook can also take Quick Base info and create calendar and contact info in Outlook too.  Have a look here: http://www.SoftTechExperts.com/sendtooutlook.html.  Contact me directly for more info.

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      SoftTechExperts
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