Office365.SendEmail() & mailto:

[Anonymous]

Hi Guys,

I want to give the employees the possibility to send an email regarding what they select on in a dropdown.

First I solved this via the mailto:-function. Very easy, but I was not able to attach files to it. So I switched to the Office365.SendEmail-function. But now I have the problem that the mail is instantly send without reviewing it.

Do you know any way on how to get the same functionality from mailto: (opening a seperate outlook window where you can choose the inbox from which it should be send, make some quick corrections,...)?

BR
Pitfrog

[iAm_ManCat · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

You can't do that currently - the mailto call is a call to your computer's currently-set mail program, whether its Outlook or Mail or some other app, the call is a system call. This is why you are unable to use attachments (as you found).

You won't be able to get the SendMail function to do that - there are other ways such as using flow to trigger an approval for the mail so that it can get reviewed before sent, however it will not open the mail client to do this.

I'd recommend suggesting this as an idea on the Ideas Forum,

Kind Regards,

Sancho

[Anonymous]

Yep,

I'll do that, because this will cause me huge acceptance problems within my team. I really want to give them a benefit with this application and often I'm restricted in automating almost the whole process.

[v-xida-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Do you want to send an email using mailto: protocol along with attachement files?

Further, do you want to review the email before sending it to your specific user?

If you want to send an email using mailto: protocol along with attachement files, I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs in PowerApps currently.

If you would like this feature to be added in PowerApps, please submit an idea to PowerApps Ideas Forum:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas

Best regards, 

[Anonymous]

@v-xida-msft 

Yes, I want the mailto:-call and the Office365.SendEmail function combined.

Mailto: doesnt allow to attach files and the Office365.SendEmail function will instantly send messages without reviewing it. Sometimes we have to adjust the subject or the recipients. In general it is ok to send it out instantly but if you give the option to switch between these two options e.g. in the argument of the function this would be very nice.

BR
Pitfrog

[v-xida-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Actually, you could consider add some Text Input boxes within your app to collect recipients and subject of the email, rather than specify them manually within your Office365.SendEmail() function.

Then you could modify your formula as below:

Office365.SendEmail(EmailTextBox.Text, SubjectTextBox.Text, BodyTextBox.Text, {...})

Best regards,

[Anonymous]

@v-xida-msft 

Thanks for the input.

That wouldn't be very userfriendly. By choosing one supplier/customer whatever it automatically gets the mail, cc, bcc and so on. I want to optimize and accelerate the process and not making it as it is right now.