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7 years ago

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How to create a button as a hyperlink for sending an email

Hi, How can i make a button a email hyperlink? I know it is possible as a table visual and checking the URL feature in the format option. Thank you.

MariaP
7 years ago
Hi RogerSteinberg
A workaround:
You can add a textbox with an asterix, turn the asterix into windings font then turn that into a hyperlink where you can use mailto:

Video here from Ruth at Curbal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxEo_hO3iIM&list=PLDz00l_jz6zzttb28XH8GHZNL6vvpBlkQ&index=89

Cheers,
Maria

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7 years ago

Hi RogerSteinberg

A workaround:

You can add a textbox with an asterix, turn the asterix into windings font then turn that into a hyperlink where you can use mailto:

Video here from Ruth at Curbal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxEo_hO3iIM&list=PLDz00l_jz6zzttb28XH8GHZNL6vvpBlkQ&index=89

Cheers,
Maria

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Post Patron

5 years ago

Thanks. It works. Only question I have is: Can we populate the "Subject line" of an email?

Clinical_Epi
Advocate III
5 years ago
Hi - I guess Power Bi has its restrictions, it would be good if there was a HTML option so we could add extra functionality using code, HTML is a good example where if MS added this into Power BI more people would take up the product.

Another pet peeve of mine right now is getting all Months to show in a Trend line (graph line visual) - plenty of options for avg or var lines, but when using a trend line our options are limited...
- Ritesh_Air
  Post Patron
  5 years ago
  I figured it out. You need to put ? and then subject. It needs to be like this:
  
  mailto:[email protected]?subject=What ever you want to put
  
  Thanks,
  Ritesh
  - Clinical_Epi
    Advocate III
    3 years ago
    Hi, thats a great solution, nice one 🙂
    
    We were going to use the HTML add-on, but this looks easier imo 🙂