Arcade expression with email image link

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10-06-2020 04:46 AM
CMcDonald
Occasional Contributor II

I would like to create a pop up in a webmap that shows an icon that you can click on which will generate an e-mail.

With help in this document Create a mailto link with Arcade I have managed to create the arcade expression below and it also includes a subject title and a field from the Layer.

var UPRN = $feature["UPRN_1"];
var email = "someone@someplace.com";
var subject = "Welfare Map issue with UPRN " + UPRN;
var params = {subject: subject};
var url = "mailto:" + email + "?" + UrlEncode(params);
url = Replace(url, "TextFormatting.NewLine", "%0D%0A");
return url;

In the pop up you can click the URL which opens e-mail application with the correct e-mail address and subject

Instead of displaying like above I would like an image/icon similar to what has been achieved in the document link above

I inserted the code into a new expression

<b>Maintenance history:</b><br />
{expression/expr0}
<br /><br />
<b>Email History:</b> <br />
<a href="{expression/expr1}">
  <img alt="Email" height="50" src="http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/iynque/ios7-style/1024/Mail-icon.png" width="50" />
</a>

but this generates the error below when you 'Test'

Parse Error:Line 1: Unexpected token <

1) Do I need to create a separate expression?

2) What expression would work to display an image?

Thank you

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XanderBakker
Esri Esteemed Contributor

Hi C McDonald ,

I have had problems with the example I mounted for the article you mentioned. It seems that a couple of updates ago, it has become more strict with what is filtered out of the expression. I can successfully test the code in the Arcade expression editor and it will show a valid mailto link, but when I do it in the web map, it seems to filter everything out and returns an empty string. I have tested with keeping the mailto outside the expression and include it in the custom HTML, but it is stripped anyway.

If I look at the traffic and errors I see is is launching an "external handler" for the mailto link which seems to be generated correctly, but the external handler probably is stripping the result fro some reason. 

CMcDonald
Occasional Contributor II

Although not ideal I can achieve what I want ultimately in the Web Mapping Application albeit not looking very pretty 😞