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

  • July 28, 2021
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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:" command in a formula field, I found ways to set the subject line, the to: field, and include a message in the body of the email.

Is there a way to include a link to a file attachment field? I realize the field would need to be set to open access.

I don't want to use a notification, because in this use case the sender really needs a lot of flexibility to edit the body of the email, add people to CC in certain scenarios, etc.

I may go the notification route, but checking my options....

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Mike Tamoush
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MarkShnierYou
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You can include a URL formula field in the body

URLRoot() & "up/" & Dbid() & "/a/r" & [Record ID#] & "/e99/v0"

Where 99 gets replaced with the fid of the file attachment field.

I believe that the email clients like gmail and Outlook at the recipient end will see the link and make it a hyperlink. 
 


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