topic Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup in ArcGIS Online Questions

Attach photo to email in custom email popup

ScottEvans6 — Thu, 09 May 2019 18:52:15 GMT

To All,

I have created a custom email popup within a web map. It uses the 'mailto:' protocol to achieve this, similar to what is in this link: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/mapping/send-email-from-web-map-pop-ups/ . I have also been able to use some arcade functions as well to grab things such as local time, lat and long, and other information to populate the email. What I want to do is attach the photos in the popup, into the email that is generated. I know Arcade has an attachment function, but is used to get attachments counts and properties (size, etc.). Has anyone accomplished this feat yet?

Thanks,

Scott

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

XanderBakker — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:35:33 GMT

I don't think this is possible in a single mailto url. The Attachments function will get you a collection of Attachments that will provide access to the name and ID of the attachment, but how will you attach the file to the email?

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

ScottEvans6 — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:40:04 GMT

Xander,

I was hoping there was some way through arcade to maybe get the BLOB information from the attachment, and place it in the email with an alias, or as an attachment to the email.

Scott

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

XanderBakker — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:47:36 GMT

I haven't seen this type of functionality before, but it would be nice.

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

ScottEvans6 — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:52:11 GMT

Ok, I figured I would put it out there. Thanks for the quick response!

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

XanderBakker — Thu, 09 May 2019 20:00:25 GMT

There would be another challange... I just saw this post on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5233556/using-mailto-to-send-email-with-an-attachment which mentions that the mailto could (should) link to a URL. If you would be able to construct the link to the attachment (I assume using the ID propperty of the attachment) it will likely need a token to access the URL and tokens expire.

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

ScottEvans6 — Thu, 09 May 2019 20:09:14 GMT

Yeah, I saw that too. I have done this using desktop, with a feature service on our ArcServer environemnt, and a python script. But to do it using pure AGOL seems to not be there yet.

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

XanderBakker — Thu, 09 May 2019 20:10:24 GMT

To provide some additional info, there is a nice video posted by Jennifer Bell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzfxBskoon8

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

XanderBakker — Thu, 09 May 2019 21:15:27 GMT

Hi Scott Evans ,

This is what I have found out:

It will not be possible to include an attachment from a simple href mailto link
You can however, include a link to the attachment so that the receiver con open the attachment
The attachments (hosted feature service) should be publically shared
I tried including a script in the pop-up window that creates the mailto link and use a button with a new window to open the link, but the script is stripped from the pop-up window and will not work

This is what is returned:

... with a simple mailto link like this:

<a href="mailto:someone@somewhere.com?subject=my report&amp;body=see attachment: {expression/expr0}&amp;attachment={expression/expr0}">Send email</a>‍

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

ScottEvans6 — Fri, 10 May 2019 12:06:30 GMT

Ok. The issue is that the feature services are mostly non-public. This creates the other issue of the tokens... I am thinking at this point it might not be possible, unless I bring the application into a development environment and go from there.

Re: Attach photo to email in custom email popup

XanderBakker — Fri, 10 May 2019 15:06:50 GMT

My idea exactly