How to parse field to extract email address and display mailto link

a!richTextDisplayField(
  value: a!richTextItem(
    text: extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", " ", "<"),
    link: a!safeLink(
      uri: "mailto:" & extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", "<", ">")
    )   
  )
)

> extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", " ", "<"),

By my math, that would evaluate to a text value of "Baggins " - is that the intent?

(i guess it doubles it based on the fact that there are 2 copies of the "start delimiter" i.e. a blank space)

How do I get just the 1st element of a split?

don't use split() for this.  See my and Stefan's other replies above.

a!richTextDisplayField(
  value: a!richTextItem(
    text: a!localVariables(
      local!fullString: fv!row['recordType!{a7958e69-8bde-42a9-a773-23e5104be70a}HAP Application.fields.{f3a77ebb-d7b9-4ec4-bd04-674ed104e96e}technicalPointOfContact'],
      extract(
        "--beginning--" & local!fullString,
        "g--",
        " <"
      )
    ),
    link: a!safeLink(
      uri: "mailto://" & extract(fv!row['recordType!{a7958e69-8bde-42a9-a773-23e5104be70a}HAP Application.fields.{f3a77ebb-d7b9-4ec4-bd04-674ed104e96e}technicalPointOfContact'], "<",">")
    )
  )
)

a!richTextDisplayField(
  value: a!richTextItem(
    text: a!localVariables(
      local!fullString: fv!row['recordType!{a7958e69-8bde-42a9-a773-23e5104be70a}HAP Application.fields.{f3a77ebb-d7b9-4ec4-bd04-674ed104e96e}technicalPointOfContact'],
      extract(
        "--beginning--" & local!fullString,
        "g--",
        " <"
      )
    ),
    link: a!safeLink(
      uri: "mailto://" & extract(fv!row['recordType!{a7958e69-8bde-42a9-a773-23e5104be70a}HAP Application.fields.{f3a77ebb-d7b9-4ec4-bd04-674ed104e96e}technicalPointOfContact'], "<",">")
    )
  )
)

The Requested Record Type Is Not Available Expression evaluation error [evaluation ID = 6CT8A] at function a!recordList: A grid component [label="null"] has an invalid value for "columns". A grid column [label="Technical Contact"] has encountered an error. Expression evaluation error at function a!safeLink [line 94]: mailto: is not a permitted URI under the configured security rules and cannot be cast to safeUri. (APNX-1-4198-000)

Bah! Most likely because I'm using the unpaid community edition... 

do you still get that error if you add the (required) ":" after "mailto"?

ed: i don't get the error in my CE site...

Yes, I caught that typo and fixed it, but still receive that error message. Strangley though it didn't give me the error when it was first implemented... 

a!safeLink [line 81]: mailto: is not a permitted URI under the configured security rules and cannot be cast to safeUri.

Works in my CE site (and in the shared beta site).  If you just make a new unsaved interface with this code do you still get the same error?

mailto: -- needed to be mailto:// 

All set! Thank you!

weird, it actually works for me when i try it either way.

Scott Fleming said:

needed to be mailto:// 

According to this

https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/html/how-to-create-mailto-links.html

there are no "//" in a valid mailto link.

Stefan Helzle said:

there are no "//" in a valid mailto link

maybe his environment has some setting which disables regular mailto links via some heuristic, and adding the "//" accidentally defeats it? 

that's why i was trying to see whether the generic code pasted into a blank interface would produce the same issue...