Auto populate and sending email

Hello, community. I've tried the "send email" function in Storyline, but it only appears to open a new email window that must be manually filled and sent. I would like to set up a trigger in Storyline 360 that will, behind the scenes:

automatically open a new email,
auto-populate a predetermined recipient address,
auto-populate the subject with prewritten text,
auto-populate the body with prewritten text,
and then automatically send that email.

I'm fine with using Javascript if necessary. Any ideas are appreciated.

2 Replies

Matthew Bibby
Hero

over 1 year ago12/04/19 at 10:14 pm (UTC)

This is all relatively easy to set up, until the 'and then automatically send that email' bit!

If you want the email to be sent automatically, you'll need to involve a server.

Otherwise, a link like this should do the trick:

mailto:robert@email.com?Subject=Hi%21&Body=How%20are%20you%3F%20I%20trust%20that%20you%20are%20well

But the user will have to manually hit send (and have a default email client configured).

You can generate a link like this here.

over 1 year ago12/05/19 at 2:37 pm (UTC)

Thanks Matthew. I suspected needing a server like you wrote but thought I'd ask if anyone had another solution.