Hallo Everyone,
We need to send out an email with structured fields that the recipient can fill out.
One method which seems/seemed promising was to send out a stand-alone HTML form, let the recipient fill out the fields and then click "Send". Here is the form syntax ...
<form action="mailto:myemail@mydomain.com?subject=Reply Form" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<input type="Text" name="myfield" size="20" value="an initial value">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
With Firefox and Chrome this works fine: The user opens the HTML-document, enters data (guided by picklists and validity checks for numbers), clicks on "Send" and the data is written (in a structured format) to a new email to the address given. Excellent!
But with IE none of this works: The picklists and validity checks (e.g. for numbers), which apply automatically in FireFox and Chrome, do not work in IE. And when the user clicks on "Send" no data is transferred to the Email.
This is a REAL shame because such a static (non-hosted) HTML-file would be the perfect way to collect data via email. But it simply doesn't work with IE (or with Edge). Why is this?
So ...
Should I simply drop the idea (and use Excel)? Or are there adjustments that I can make to the HTML-syntax to get IE to apply the checks and send the Email.
Or maybe IE requires this type of action to be carried out from a hosted (URL) location? Rather than working from a physical .html file.
Or should I be looking elsewhere (e.g. Outlook form-fields) to send structured "Reply-requests" (questionnaire / information-gather) to users/recipients?
Many thanks for any tips or links that you can give me.
Yours,
Alan
In Cologne