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 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]

Perhaps there is some reason for making this feature less powerful in version 2, but at least in Windows 1.x version (1.10.6), the full email url syntax was still supported and worked without any obvious issues:

Note how in the body part even line break works. Perhaps there was some security concern, or possibly IDML compatibility based cause (as InDesign only supports the sender address and subject line)? 

[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]

49 minutes ago, Dan C said:

it appears as soon as there are multiple '@' symbols within the Hyperlink, Publisher deems this invalid

Note though that it (both versions 1 and 2) still accepts multiple email addresses separated by a semicolon (the delimiter might depend on regional settings?) so it is not just the number of addresses as parameters, but possibly a deliberate omission of cc and bcc fields (probably not very often needed, though bcc can be quite convenient sometimes).

[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]

15 hours ago, Dan C said:

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

@Dan C, I just ran another test, and if you replace the @ signs in cc and bcc with %40, all the mail fields work fine, and you can have multiple receiver addresses marked with @, so having

email@address.here.com;another@mail.com;third@testing.com?subject=This%20is%20a%20test&cc=secondary%40mail.com&bcc=hidden%40mail.com&body=This%20is%20body%20text

entered in the Email-type of Hyperlink box, gives you this:

The screenshot above is from macOS Mail (Sonoma 14.1.2), but it works the same on Windows (Outlook in latest Office 365 on Windows Pro 11 tested).

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. 

[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]

1 minute ago, Dan C said:

personally I'd expect both '@' and '%40' to be supported

Yes, it is not clear why this changed (but is still supported when entering multiple receiver addresses) -- perhaps it is related to just requiring in actual parameter part only valid url-encoded special characters, and accordingly spaces, too, needing to be encoded (version 1 allowed space characters e.g. in at least the subject parameter).

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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".
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