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Can you link to send an email in a form?


Trying to create a form for an internal job board/send resume, but I need to have candidates email myself and their current manager their resume. Is there a way to have a new outlook email window pop up for them to send automatically? I read that adding “mailto:” in a URL makes an email a valid URL but that has not worked. 

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Liz
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  • October 8, 2024

Hi @lkraai Oh this is an interesting request. The mailto option would be the best option, I’m afraid. Where are you adding in this link? 


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  • October 8, 2024

thanks for the reply. 

I was hoping that if i could hyperlink my email into the type form it might pull up a new email for them to send. like if {myemail.com} was clicked on it would pull up for them to send an email.

 


Emma Burt
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  • October 9, 2024

@lkraai  Yes you can embed your email address in a text, when you highlight the text you will see a link icon show up, click on it, them it will request for the address you want to link, them you put your email address and click enter.


Emma Burt
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  • October 9, 2024

Kindly try it out and let me know if this solves the problem.


john.desborough
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  • October 9, 2024

@lkraai - i would suggest that you get them to submit the form first and then have the mailto link on the ending page - that way you would not get them ‘jumping out to email’ and then having to come back in complete the form. 

just a thought. 

 

des


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  • November 6, 2024
Emma Burt wrote:

@lkraai  Yes you can embed your email address in a text, when you highlight the text you will see a link icon show up, click on it, them it will request for the address you want to link, them you put your email address and click enter.

Thanks Emma, I entered text onto a form and highlighted it but no link icon appeared.
Any chance you could show a screenshot please?


EndlessSky
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  • November 10, 2024

+1 upvoting this post, as an answer would help me to form my thoughts as well!  Thanks for bringing the post and thanks for the responses. 

 

Cheers, ~EndlessSky 


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