User notes that they can print and email

Hello All,

For the life of me, I can't get this to work. Stephanie's file works fine but when I recreate the java in my own file it won't work.

I also am having a problem where the variables won't update when the control loses focus. Right now I am updating the variables by tabbing through.

Any help would be appreciated.

I may have arrived to the party late - and yet, this is still very helpful. Thank you :)

I used the code Stephanie contributed and it works perfect in IE. However it opens a extra blank browser window in Chrome when the email of Outlook is launching. Is this to do with the Chrome browser setting or the code? As two browsers respond differently.

Hello all,

I'm having issues trying to get the email to be sent. I have followed Stephanie's example and tried some of the later suggestions by Matthew, but for some reason my LMS does not want to open a new window and to sent the e-mail. Can anybody help, please?  Here is the code I'm trying to use:

var player = GetPlayer();
var useremail = player.GetVar('EmailN');
var pnotes1 = player.GetVar('Notes1');
var pnotes2 = player.GetVar('Notes2');
var pnotes3 = player.GetVar('Notes3');
var pnotes4 = player.GetVar('Notes4');
var pnotes5 = player.GetVar('Notes5');
var pnotes6 = player.GetVar('Notes6');
var pnotes7 = player.GetVar('Notes7');
var subject = 'Notes from Your Dissertation Topic Tutorial';
var emailBody = 'Research:' + pnotes1 + '\n' + 'Two Important Questions:' + pnotes2 + '\n' + 'What is a research question:' + pnotes3 + '\n' + 'Why is a research question needed:' + pnotes4 + '\n' + 'How and Why:' + pnotes5 + '\n' + 'Answering Why X should be done:' + pnotes6 + '\n' + 'A good research question:' + pnotes7;
var mailto_link = 'mailto:' + useremail + '?subject=' + subject + '&body=' + encodeURIComponent(emailBody);
win = window.open(mailto_link, 'emailWin');

Thanks!

1. You probably checked this already... but is the browser blocking the popup window?
2. You might try opening the Developer Console and seeing if any errors are shown. 
3. There is a limit to how many characters you can put in a URL (~2000 depending on the browser). Is it possible you are hitting that limit?

Thanks for your ideas, James.

1 - No, there are no pop-up blockers (tried 3 different browsers on 2 different machines).

2 - Not a developper, sorry. But I've run an LMS debug report and I cann't seem to find any issues.

3 - Good point, I've not thought of that. But the problem happens even when the notes are empty or with just 'test' written in each of the 7 slides (way less than 2000 characters, including the titles, in total).

 Do you think I could have missed something in the LMS debug report?

5 years on, it's still really useful.

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Thanks Stephanie for sharing this wonderful work. This was more than 5 years ago and I still find it very useful. I wanted to implement the technique in Storyline and import to my Articulte Rise as a SL block. However, the email and print functions are not working after I embedded in my Rise project.

Can someone please tell me if this is possible in Rise or not? I have spent several hours working on the project and I need to know if it's possible to embed the technique in Rise.

Thank you.

Thanks,

I need help with this, please!

I have decided to implement my notes in Storyline 360 instead of embedding in Rise block. However, when I publish the project nothing happens on clicking the email and printer icons. When I publish with the email icon alone it works. I don't know why it is behaving this way. Please see the attached .Story file for more information. 

Thanks

Hi Stephanie, 

Were you able to test this on mobile? I tried testing this on Safari on my iPhone but I can’t get it to work… When I hit the send email button, nothing’s happening.

PS. I've embedded this Storyline to a Rise block and I'm looking at it on a mobile device. I don't know if that's an issue.