Adding E-Mail Links

Introduction

As well as linking to the World Wide Web, your presentation can also connect via e-mail. When the user of your presentation clicks on an e-mail link, their mail program is opened with a new message with the address filled in. You can use this to easily solicit feedback or enquiries from your presentation.

For the mail link feature to work, the user's PC must have an e-mail program properly installed as the default e-mail client and must have a working Internet connection.

Creating an e-mail link

E-Mail links in CDR Presenter consist of two parts:

The mail address to link to. This is the address of the person the e-mail is to be sent to, usually your own address. The address can include a subject for the message or even some of the message itself (although this won't work on all PCs because some e-mail programs do not pick up the information).
The text or title for the link. This is the text that is displayed on the page for the user to click on. This might be the e-mail address or it could be something more helpful, such as 'E-mail us for more information...'.

To create or change a maillink, click on the space marked 'maillink' on the page layout. There is a mail link item on the 'Contact' layout in most styles and also a layout called 'Four maillinks' which might be useful.

Once the mail link dialog is displayed, enter the e-mail address for the link and then the text as it should be displayed and click 'Okay'.

Entering mail addresses

The address for the maillink can be any complete Internet e-mail address, such as sales@cdrpresenter.co.uk or john@cdrpresenter.co.uk and so on.

If you would like to suggest a subject for the e-mail message, you can include it by adding a question mark and the word 'subject=' followed by the subject you would like for the message. For example:

sales@cdrpresenter.co.uk?subject=Sales enquiry

would create an e-mail from the user to sales@cdrpresenter.co.uk with a subject of 'Sales enquiry'.

Simlarly, adding 'body=' lets you set the message body. If you set both subject and body, you must separate the two with an ampersand. For example (to be entered all on one line):

sales@cdrpresenter.co.uk?subject=Sales enquiry&body=Please e-mail your latest price list. Thanks.

Please be aware that the subject and body items are a convention only and not all e-mail programs will pick them up. If you use this technique, you may still get some messages from users where the subject and body have not been filled in automatically.