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February 17, 2021
Question

mailto: no longer working in Fm 2020

  • February 17, 2021
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Related to my post on hypertext markers...

It appears that this syntax no longer works for an email link:

message URL mailto:matt@techcommtools.com

Has anyone successfully inserted an email link into Fm 2020?

 

-Matt 

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    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 17, 2021

    To what output paths? (e.g. PDF, HTML, eBook)
    What's the failure mode?
    No link created?
    Malformed?
    Looks OK but doesn't work?

     

    And I imagine that Insert » Marker [Hypertext]
    doesn't work around it (if that method ever worked).

    Community Expert
    February 17, 2021

    I can make it work when publishing to PDF and  HTML5 (message URL mailto:studio@smalbro.dk). I use "Go To Url" and insert the mailto:.

     

    Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk