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PowerBI Button to send email
How do i add a powerbi button and program the action for a web url that is a mailto: so that it opens up a users email application and adds the email address.
Here is a great example of using an email address from a table to create a email link in Power BI
How to work more efficiently using a Power BI email button!
I have seen quite a few different workarounds for this. Eg using tables with email links or textboxes, but they all make you miss out on the opportunity to format your buttons different states. What worked out for me was to use an outlook web compose-link instead of mailto:
In my case the weburl looked something like this: https://outlook.office.com/mail/deeplink/[email protected]&subject=Questions%20about%20PBI%20ReportXX
Thanks for this It worked!
