Email Hyperlink

Feature request
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Not sure if this has been requested before, but here goes.

I often am using EDT to run reports for clients. Taking one data set, say timecards from across an organization, and then distributing them to multiple users via email. What I currently do now, is just put the name of the recipient in a notes box next to their output just to remind me who gets what file. It would be awesome if I could make those notes into a hyperlink that would execute a command to open up an email to that person. It would be double awesome if you could do that where the data was already attached.

Im wondering if there is a way I could automate that with my computer. “any time data is saved to this folder, attach it to an email and open the email”. then I could just add the names.

at the end of the day, its pretty minor in terms of time saving per step, but I do this A LOT so that would for sure add up.

just a thought!

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I’m not 100% clear how you do it. If you are on MAC, I would try KeyboardMaestro for such automation (https://www.keyboardmaestro.com).

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You can quite easily create an HTML file with mailto links. You can then click on the edit (pencil) button to show it and click on a link.

Note that I have written to the file as plain text to stop it HTML encoding things.

You can also write mailto links to Excel as hyperlinks.

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Not sure about integrating too deeply with email. We don’t have any plans to become a general automation tool, as there are lots of those already.

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You can 100% do it in via automation using keyboard maestro on OsX, for windows I don’t know a general automation tool but I use ETL-tools , highly recommended but an absolute overkill for above only scenario . https://www.etl-tools.com/

Windows user can chime in here .

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