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Knowledge base article 128

Emailing from a database form

Suppose you have a field that contains email addresses for a list of contacts and you want a simple way to create an email from a database form.

The easiest way is to add a new field to the table of type Calculated:

1. Open the table and select Format/Table
2. Add a new field (e.g. call it emailto) and set type to Calculated
3. Click Format and then Formula
4. Enter: =hyperlink(concat("mailto:", email), email) where email is the name of your field containing the email address
5. Save and select View/Form for clickable link

An example of such a database is here: EMAILFORM.ADB