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    Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

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    Robbie Burns on 19 Apr 2018 15:48:39

    Currently, hyperlinks in Card Browser must begin with http:// or https://, Mailto: links are not supported.

    Using a Card Browser custom visual to display a list of employees with information such as their email address with a clickable link would be very useful.

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    Majed Nabod on 21 Mar 2023 09:14:07

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    It would be very helpful if we could add mailto links to image actions. Right now it doesn't work as desired and needs a bunch of workarounds (which don't look good).

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    Alexandros Melemenidis on 23 Feb 2023 11:55:23

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    I would like to use a mailto: URL action for an image visual, which is a mail envelope icon. So would be great if this could also be added. There were some discussions along the lines in the community, but it seems no one has turned this into an idea yet. Can you take care of that or should I open this as new idea that would then be merged with this?

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    Nathalie Williams on 21 Sep 2022 14:49:45

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    this would be very useful thanks

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    on 18 Apr 2022 21:09:54

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    Would like to write mailto: emailaddresses in the web url action for a button. It should open a outlook mail which the email aliases populated. Would be great if we can even populate the mail body template.

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    on 18 Apr 2022 21:09:46

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    mailto links are allowed in tables and matrices but not in action buttons. We can't do a simple scenario like make a button to email a support mailbox. This feature would allow mailto links (and really think about accepting any kind of URL or URI) to be used in any Action setting

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    on 18 Apr 2022 21:09:46

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    add New data category: Mail
    that will allow to add a link with mailto: , Subject, Body that will open outlook with the relevant data already filled

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    on 18 Apr 2022 21:09:46

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    Currently, links like mailtos are supported in tables and matrices, but not action buttons.
    Could a button with an envelope icon be added as well as the ability for action buttons to use mailtos and other types of links?
    It would be much more visually intuitive and appealing. Thank you.

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    Ned Jaszi on 04 Apr 2022 18:10:18

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    Yes please!

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    Shubham Kumar on 13 Oct 2020 19:15:43

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    It's a very important feature that can help customers use the customizations that Tables and Text Boxes don't allow

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    Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:11

    RE: Allow Mailto: links in Card Browser visual

    This would be a very useful functionality. Hopefully, Power BI team builds this visual to support Mailto link.

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