InfoPath Dev

So... I have a form, i've selected text on the form and chose "insert hyperlink"

I put in the mailto link text where necessary, and then save.

The text on the form doesn't appear altered (doesn't make the link text look like a link).   Also, when i preview the form, the text doesn't act like a link.

When i reedit the text, I get the option to edit or remove the hyperlink...but the address field is now empty.

I've found no trick to get the address to "take".

 what dumb black hole have i found? 

Oh how annoying. If you try the same thing with a new blank form, do you have the same issue? I just tried this and it worked as anticipated - typed some text on a form, highlighted, used Ctrl + k to add a hyperlink, typed in mailto:myemail@address.com and it worked the way it is supposed to.

 new test list, new form, same issue... hmmm

So weird. Send me a test form that shows the issue - you can attach under the options tab.

 i'll try... but for the moment, did another little test. i can put in a http://www.somewhere.com link and get the desired result.

I just want to update this with our findings from our earlier email discussion. As you found, mailto links aren't saved in SharePoint List form templates! So - as a work around, we created an XML file with the "mailto:" URL in an element, added a data connection to the XML file, and then set the hyperlink to use the data source for it's address. That seems to have solved it.

Hilary, I just ran into this issue too. Would you mind sharing a copy of the XML you created? I found a sample online but it isn't working for me.

It's weird - I just tried this again (I am assuming I had created a simple XML file, used that for the data source) but no matter what I do, I'm not getting a clickable link in InfoPath with mailto - even if I use a Hyperlink control!

If you can find any of our original emails about what form/url i was working on... i could look at my stuff... but i don't remember where i did this.

Found it - looks like the difference is that this is hardcoded in the XML. When I was just testing, I was setting the link via rules.

Thank you, this works! For future reference here's what's in the xml:

<links> <link>mailto:name@address.com</link> </links>