Built-in e-mail survey??

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I'd like to distribute slideshows on a CD with the PPTViewer included
At the end, I'd like to have an e-mail survey about how useful the
slideshow was, suggestions for improvement, etc
I've figured how to insert a link that automatically pops up an outgoing
e-mail message, complete with my e-mail address as the destination an
a subject line (not entirely sure if this works outside this building)
I'd like to have some text ready to send as well (in the body of the e-mail
So that the the viewer can just put in a few X's, and send the results back t
me
Any ideas?
 
Just as you can add a subject to your email, you can prebuild your email
content as well. However, there is a limit: The entire mailto statement must
be less that 256 characters.

To set it up, create a hyperlink on a shape. Select email address. Put your
email address in the first field and your subject in the second field. After
you finish your subject, hit the space bar. Now, type "&body" (without the
quotes) and your message body. An example subject might look like this:

Please%20complete%20this%20survey%20&body=%20%22This%20is%20my%20message%20b
ody%20text%22
(each %20 is a space)

Play around with it and see if you can make it work. You may find that you
need to do one email for each question, instead of one long email.
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I'd like to distribute slideshows on a CD with the PPTViewer included.
At the end, I'd like to have an e-mail survey about how useful the
slideshow was, suggestions for improvement, etc.
I've figured how to insert a link that automatically pops up an outgoing
e-mail message, complete with my e-mail address as the destination and
a subject line (not entirely sure if this works outside this building).
I'd like to have some text ready to send as well (in the body of the e-mail)
So that the the viewer can just put in a few X's, and send the results back to
me.
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Not to be a party pooper or anything, but:

Popping up the user's email client via a mailto: link is fairly reliable
The subject line trick is less widely supported
I don't think there's a way to do the body text other than perhaps by working
with features that are specific to each email program, though.

Could you link them to a web form instead? It could collect the info and send
email along to you.

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Steve,
Which email clients don't support subject and body creation? Since they are
standard HTML, I thought all email clients would handle them correctly....

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Which email clients don't support subject and body creation? Since they are
standard HTML, I thought all email clients would handle them correctly....
Click to expand...

From W3C:

MAILTO URLs have the following syntax:

mailto:email-address

User agents may support MAILTO URL extensions that are not yet Internet
standards (e.g., appending subject information to a URL with the syntax
"?Subject=my%20subject" where any space characters are replaced by "%20"). Some
user agents also support "?Cc=email-address".

===================================

So it's questionable whether it's standard HTML; otoh, Netscape 4 and up
support it, MSIE6 does, don't know about earlier versions, so it's fairly
WIDELY supported.

That covers you from the html page to the browser to where it gets tossed off
to Windows for the email client handoff. I don't know whether all email
clients handle add'l fields or not; there's a bit more here about other
possible hazards:

http://www.isolani.co.uk/articles/mailto.html

For example, if the user uses a webmail account, I don't think a mailto link
will work at all.

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Got it. The big question that leaves then is what happens if you try to
execute a mailto link from PPT on a system that doesn't have a default email
client....I have used the body command before and never heard of problems,
but it is with people who have used fairly standard email clients. May have
to find someone using an unusual email client and see what happens when they
click the link.

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Thanks
It works in the building for 1 line
I'll look for other ways for something longer.
 
Got it. The big question that leaves then is what happens if you try to
execute a mailto link from PPT on a system that doesn't have a default email
client....
Click to expand...

Nothing. That's one of the things that makes using it risky.
Whereas if you include a link in your html to an html form, you don't have to
worry about the user not having a browser. <g>


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