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Export Variable Values via Email Message using JavaScript
Ever wish you had visibility into how users are interacting with the courses you create, such as which slides they’re viewing, what answer they selected in each question of a quiz? Well, you can hav...
I know this is an older thread - but for anyone picking it up, it is worth pointing out that the 'mailto' link within a JavaScript send email function only works if the learner has an email client installed on their device.
There are companies (like mine) that have a strict "One copy is enough" policy and don't have email clients installed on ANY devices. We read and send email from our cloud server and do not 'synch' email with any devices.
The reasons for this are:
- Data security and privacy (emails are held only in one place and not on mobile devices)
- Single source content control - we never suffer from the problem "I haven't got your email my device hasn't synched yet"
- Environmental concern - we attempt to minimise our data storage and volume of data transmission over the internet (this will become a far more serious problem as the true carbon footprint of massive data centres and internet traffic becomes fully understood).
I don't know if that was the problem David referred to above - but it could be.
