E-Learning Heroes - Advice and ideas from the Articulate Community

Ok, friends. I'll try to make this an easy question. I want to be able to click a hyperlink on a published slide that launches a student's native email. I have used this a ton. My problem is that I want to fill in some information for them.

I want a subject line to be pre-filled and I want to include a list so it would look something like this:

To: (already populated)  jdoe@gack.com

Subject: (already populated)  Warning

Body: (already populated)

Do this

Then do this

Now do this

So here is what I have figured out...I highlight the text I want as the hyperlink...right click, select email, fill in address, subject...ok ok I get that...I also figured out that if I add &body= to the end of the subject I want I can get my email text to auto populate as well, but I can't figure out how to get it to have a "return" so I can make my list...

Can anyone tell me if it is poss to create a list in the field named "subject" by adding some html or something?

I want the email to have returns like my list above...not just a long sentence. All I seem to be able to figure out is how to autopop a really long sentence with no formatting...

David, I'm not an html whiz but what happens if you add "
" to the end of the sentence

sorry, it won't display properly

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aarrgh!! try br  with

Oh wow. Thank you, Jeanette. And thank you for including David's screenr. I'm going to present this to my team as a course feedback option.

This looks great...I'll give it a try this morning. Thank you Jeanette and blair.

Dave

I am using the following code in the address bar to get some text and body in the email. This hyperlink is on the fail screen of the quizmaker.

Mailto:abc@xyz.com?Subject=Exceeded 2 attempts&body=Hey Coach, I was unable to pass the practice test after 2 attempts. Below is my method of contact along with any details I'd like to discuss.%0dThank you.

I am not able to figure out how to get capitals into the code. Can anyone help please?

Hi Sushmita, that's kind of strange - I wasn't able to reproduce the issue in Quizmaker (nor Presenter) - when I use that same hyperlink text it produces an email with mixed case as expected. You're welcome to upload your project files to our support team so they can take a closer look and help troubleshoot. In the meantime, I did see this post from Lori who experienced a similar issue, and she was able to work around it by branching learners to a Presenter slide if they fail, and inserting the hyperlink on a Presenter slide instead. Perhaps that will help?

Jeanette - brilliant solution! & David, thanks for prompting the email idea!

How can I change the mail subject from an email that is generated from the email button within the Articulate Presenter player templates. We use the Email button with a label "Contact Us" for users to submit questions etc. to us. We want the subject of the email to be prepopulated with the name of the module. Is it possible to do this within the Player Template? Thanks!

So I figured out most of it. I changed the code in the presentation.xml to ?subject=SNAP Refresher-Income Deductions]]>

The mail subject populates correctly but on the button in Articulate part of the code is displayed. Screenshot is attached. How do I get rid of the extra text on the button? 

ok I figured it out again, all I needed was a space in between the email addresses and the subject information. Hopefully this will help someone else.

?subject=SNAP Refresher-Income Deductions]]>

Thanks Carmen, for sharing your solution!

Hi all

This something I use in  trigger that launches a java script

It enables you to write an email on the fly in SL

Geert

Static email body

Launch new email message

var email="yourAddress@email.com";
var subject="subject line";
var body_start="How you want to begin your body.";
var mailto_link='mailto:'+email+'?subject='+subject+'&body='+body_start;
win=window.open(mailto_link,'emailWin');

This is a version of a dynamically made email body

Launch new dynamic email message

var player = GetPlayer();
var email=player.GetVar("email");
var subject="Your Subject";
var body_start=player.GetVar("notes");
var mailto_link='mailto:'+email+'?subject='+subject+'&body='+escape(body_start);
win=window.open(mailto_link,'emailWin');

* be aware, that the variables email & notes need to be defined in your project

** if you do not escape your body text, the all will be glued together