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

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:53:26 GMT

yeah, i got the same result (posted earlier), so who knows i guess? it'd be interesting if there was some issue being caused by trying to use it in the record list configuration (though i don't know why it would do that).

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

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:14:59 GMT

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:06:15 GMT

[quote userid="274702" url="~/discussions/f/data/35114/how-to-parse-field-to-extract-email-address-and-display-mailto-link/136523"]there are no "//" in a valid mailto link[/quote]

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...

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

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:03:46 GMT

According to this

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

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

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:59:38 GMT

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

[quote userid="261749" url="~/discussions/f/data/35114/how-to-parse-field-to-extract-email-address-and-display-mailto-link/136521"]needed to be mailto:// [/quote]

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:58:39 GMT

mailto: -- needed to be mailto://

All set! Thank you!

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:41:26 GMT

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?

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:40:13 GMT

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

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:36:59 GMT

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...

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:10:19 GMT

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

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

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:07:29 GMT

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

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:03:12 GMT

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)

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:56:43 GMT

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'], "<",">")
    )
  )
)

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:46:39 GMT

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

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:45:16 GMT

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

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

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:42:43 GMT

Magic Mike! A great trick!

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:40:20 GMT

mid() seems like a reasonable approach - my old trick, though, when wanting a more carefully guided "extract", is to prepend a special delimiter string (something unlikely/impossible to ever appear in the actual string itself) --

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

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:37:29 GMT

> 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)

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

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:35:57 GMT

Sorry, the "Bilbo" looks so similar to "Baggins" so that I missed this ...

I changed the code a bit:

a!localVariables(
  local!email: "Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>",
  a!richTextDisplayField(
    value: a!richTextItem(
      text: mid(local!email, 1, find(" <", local!email)),
      link: a!safeLink(
        uri: "mailto:" & extract(local!email, "<", ">")
      )   
    )
  )
)

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

Scott Fleming — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:24:44 GMT

First, thank you for your help!

The mailto:link is returning correctly, but the display name is not showing the string to the left of the "<" properly.

For example:

Joseph Nault <Joseph.Nault@tn.gov> ---> link displays as "Nault Nault"..

Here's the code:

Screenshot of the result

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

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:00:36 GMT

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_extract.html

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

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:29:25 GMT

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>", "<", ">")
    )   
  )
)