Hyperlink properties

[Hstrutz]

In Publisher when adding hyperlinks (for example email) to a document's object/text: how to also add/include a Subject line?

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, Hstrutz said:

how to also add/include a Subject line?

You can try email@address.here.com?subject email@address.here.com?subject=the.subject which should work if there are no spaces in "the.subject". For spaces, you could try %20 which might work.

Edited January 11, 2024 by walt.farrell
Fixed the syntax.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

You can try email@address.here.com?subject which should work if there are no spaces in "subject".

Could you upload a PDF where it works for you? While the hyperlink opens a new email window I don't get a subject text filled (V1, mac, Outlook).

[Dan C]

The mailto link needs a slightly different format( "email address"?subject="subject", using %20 for 'space' characters in the subject), as shown below:

email@address.here.com?subject=This%20is%20a%20test

 

Which when clicking on the link in the exported PDF, provides the following in Outlook for me:

I hope this clears things up

[thomaso]

37 minutes ago, Dan C said:

?subject="subject"

Perfekt, thank you!

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Dan C]

I'm not personally aware of any changes between supported Email Hyperlink properties between V1 and V2, however testing the same email hyperlink shown in your above screenshots fails to be accepted in 2.3 - it appears as soon as there are multiple '@' symbols within the Hyperlink, Publisher deems this invalid.

I'm getting this logged with the team now, as it may be an oversight of the panel, rather than a decisive removal

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Hstrutz]

Thanks, I will try that complicated coding, which in Indesign (sorry to mention this application again) is an included user friendly option. Also "Alt" is available in the URL part of hyperlinking.

[Hstrutz]

Dan C and walt and tomaso and others, thanks, I tested "email@address.here.com?subject=This%20is%20a%20test" and it worked, a temporary workaround until the developers will make this more user friendly 

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Dan C]

6 hours ago, lacerto said:

So the only difference to version 1 seems to be that in version 2 the additional parameters &cc and &bcc require the @ sign to be url coded as %40. 

Many thanks for letting me know!

I'll be sure to update the developers with this information now, as I'm not 100% certain of the expected behaviour when entering an Email Hyperlink in V2 - personally I'd expect both '@' and '%40' to be supported

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Email Hyperlinks with multiple email addresses (CC & BCC) fail to validate / export" (REF: AF-1736) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2317".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
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