Need to email with body text pre-populated

I need my users to click on a button, then compose a new email to XYZ@abcde.com with a "body text" pre-populated in the email. Is this possible? I'm obviously looking for the quickest/simplest way without doing all the CGI stuff. This will be mounted on Saba LMS. Thank you so much for any help.


All users will be using MS Outlook.

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Looks like it worked, but your email program said that addresses "secret@caci.com" and "copy@caci.com" do not exist (because they don't :)) You should replace the whole email with yours, e.g. support@trivantis.com?subject=Hello from Lectora&body=How are you&cc=wee@caci.com or support@trivantis.com?subject=Hello from Lectora&body=How are you&cc=name.surname@caci.com, whatever your actual address is.

@Wee 59640 wrote:

In addition, does anyone know how the subject field and cc field can be pre-populated? I got the body text to work from what Trivantis suggested, but was wondering how to automatically add a subject and add an email address of the sender in the cc field. Thank you in advance.


support@trivantis.com?subject=Hello from Lectora&body=How are you&cc=copy@server.com&bcc=secret@server.com

Create a new variable, let's call it "FullEmail". Setup actions on the button:

1) FullEmail - modify var - set by variable - AICC_Student_ID

2) FullEmail - modify var - add to variable - "@caci.com"

3) Send email to "VAR(FullEmail)" (no quotes)


I'm travelling now so I'm writing this without Lectora, apologies if I missed anything.

Ah, got it. We need to get the learners email from somewhere, then add it to the email string.

LMS reports two strings to Lectora:

- student_id, which is often student's email (if it is so in your case, we're in luck) but can also be employee number or a some other string

- student_name, which can be transformed into learner's email if CACI emails are based on names. This is not a robust option because there are always emails that break the rules.


If we cannot get student's email address from LMS via SCORM, we'll need to get it somehow else. Ask learner to enter it on the first page? Or prompt for email address when he clicks the button?

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