Hi Nick,

have you tried to use a "Rich Text" field? In the configuration of this control you can insert a "Link" and use the item properties as well.

Regards

Philipp

Philipp,

Using the rich text does allow me to insert a referenced item, but just within the body. After I click on Link to insert a link, this opens in a dialog which prevents me from calling on an item property.

Also, using O365:

You could use javascript and build your mailto by passing the value from the input field.  Then add a button to your form that calls your JS.

Thank you for the suggestions. I have found a solution without JS.

If you create  label on a form, you can insert an item reference, but not if you create a hyperlink in the label, as mentioned above.

So, these are the steps I followed to get this to work:

1. Insert Label on form
2. In the body of the label, insert the item
   reference to the person/group field(email)
3. Save the label
4. The “Text” shown on the label displays the
   syntax I need
   1. E.g. for a Person/Group field called “UserName”,
      the syntax is “{ItemProperty:csfuEmail}”
   2. This text “csfu” has nothing to do with my
      column, and I have no idea what generates it
5. Taking this syntax for my UserName field email
   address, I can then go to another label (or back to the same one), and click the
   “view html” button
6. I deleted everyone and inserted the following,
   which is a standard html code for email to:
   1. <a href="{ItemProperty:csfuEmail"
      target="_top">Send Mail</a>
7. Save this and you form should have a link called
   “Send Email”, which opens a new email to the person in the field “UserName”.

The trick here was figuring out the correct syntax to use for the named property, which appears randomish???

You can do this the same way you would in infopath or adobe:

- Add a rich text field and click the insert tab at the top, then click link.

- In the address field type  or whatever email you're wanting to link to open.

- Then type the text you would like to display.

- click OK

done

Please note: the link does not show up in the form designer. You have to preview the form to see it/test it.

also, this will not work with data real time being entered into the form. I'm wondering if there's a way to set a variable with a field value and reference it somehow but haven't figured it out.