Emailing screen or text results to yourself

Feb 26, 2014

In my tutorial, you input a lot of text and at the end I would like my student to be able to email that text to themselves -- but when I add the trigger to email, it just opens up a blank email.  Any idea how to do this?

4 Replies
Jesi Buell

Thanks -- but those aren't super helpful except to say that Storyline does not have that function -- 

However, for anyone else interested, I do think I found a potential solution through this post -  http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/javascript-best-practices-and-examples

I'm going to try and add my variables to this code -- hopefully they show up -

 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');

If anyone else has tried this and succeeded, please let me know!

Also, I love that Storyline allows my students to put in text content and that I can display the results of all their work - but what is the point of having text input if there is no way to save it or utilize it?  Outside of corporate or business functions, I do believe a lot of people are using this software in libraries and classrooms where people might want to use or save the fruits of their labor (without simply printing out a list).  Just a thought -- 

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