Button to open email client and populate fields (including a report link)

Question

I am trying to make a button that will open our email client (Outlook), and fill out the recipient from a QB field, and the subject, as well as populate the body with a report link.

I found an old app from l think like 2013 called Tutorial-One Click Button for Outlook. Does anyone know if this is a good resource, or have suggestions for updated resources on how to accomplish this?

Or is there a simple native way now? (To be clear, I don't want to fire a notification, I want the client to open so the user can add to and modify the email and then send).

Update: This old Sample App still works great, however does anyone know if there is a way to bring a report link in (or an image of the report link? Something?)?

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Mike Tamoush
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BlakeHarrison · Answer

Creating a mailto link is really the only way you'll be able to do this natively. And that would only work for text. If you want to stick with native functions, you may want to explore options using the Email notifications or Pipelines. Email notifications can be used to generate an email based on a trigger and you can create really nice emails this way, though they're still coming from Quickbase. Pipelines, though, has a connector to Outlook that you may want to explore. This would be able to connect to your email and send using your email account, rather than the Quickbase email service.

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Blake Harrison
bharrison@datablender.io
DataBlender - Quickbase Solution Provider
Atlanta GA
404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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