I'm a learning designer working in Articulate Storyline. I've asked this on their community site but its been suggested to ask here. In Articulate I have the option to add in Javascript under what they call triggers, this is the query I have.

When the button is clicked, I would like specifically Outlook to open and the recipient field to be populated with a certain email address. From what I have searched so far, I understand I can open Outlook's browser version using window.open("https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/"). When added to the trigger this works. However, I can't see where the mailto command would sit with this.

Is it even possible to open the compose mail window in a browser and or is there anyway to open the desktop application instead.

Thanks for any advice or help you can give me here.

CodePudding user response：

Not knowing the specifics of Articulate Storyline, but if you can add HTML one option is to use a regular "a" tag for this. It will open in the e-mail client that is default on the users computer though, which may be Outlook or something else.

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email link</a>

You can read more here: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_address.asp

CodePudding user response：

Is it even possible to open the compose mail window in a browser and or is there anyway to open the desktop application instead.

Use the mailto protocol which opens a client's e-mail system and begins a new email message. For example:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?
    subject=MessageTitle&amp;
    body=Message Content">
    Contact Us</a>

The following example shows how to use an HTML form to create an e-mail message.

<form action="mailto:[email protected]" method="get">
<input name="subject" type="hidden" value="Message Title">

Feedback:<br/>
<textarea name=body cols="40">
Please share your thoughts here
and then choose Send Feedback.
</textarea>

<input type="submit" value="Send Feedback">
</form>

For more information on the mailto protocol, see RFC2368: The mailto URL scheme.