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This may seem like a very basic question but I am really struggling with it. In my app I need to have a contact link that sends an email to a specific person.

I have it working using a label with the Launch feature in the OnSelect and everything 'hard coded' into the App.

I really need to be able to bring this Name/Email address in from an outside source so the Power App doesn't have to be modified if the person changes. I am not using a SharePoint Person field for this. For whatever reason, I can't seem to figure out the best way to accomplish this.

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KrishnaV 5,023 on at

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Hi @JR-BejeweledOne ,

Follow the below steps to achieve your needs:
Add a label and show the dynamic text
Add a button on top of it and group both the controls
Make the button transparent by removing the below properties
Now write send email functionality onSelect event of the button

Office365.SendEmail("Test3@xxxxxx.xxmicrosoft.com","Send email from PowerApps","Item: "&Concat(ComboBox1.SelectedItems,First_x0020_name&" "))

I hope this resolved your issue if you see any challenge let me know I am always happy to help.

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Krishna
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JR-BejeweledOne 5,836 Moderator on at

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I am not sure I understand what you are saying. I have a SharePoint list that contains a number of different data options for my app. I filter them based on a DataType column.

One of the entries is the Name and email address (Title and description column) of the person I need to show in the Send email link.

I am not getting this information from the Office 365 users connection, I already have it in my data source list.

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Hi @JR-BejeweledOne ,

Ok, I have implemented this below prototype, and let me know if that is not what you want no worries I will change up to your needs.
Follow the steps to achieve this at you:
Add a custom card on the edit form
Ensure that you set the item gallery.selected
Now add the button to the custom card and a label to show the text as "User Email"
Now onSelect event of the button add the below code

Office365Outlook.SendEmail(Email,Title & "Button Click","This is a sample email from Power Apps")

To this to work add Office365Outlook connector in you App
Now decorate the button to look like as a simple label
Let me know if this doesn't work I can show you the working model since it is too large in size I am not able to attach it here.

I hope this resolved your issue if you see any challenge let me know I am always happy to help.
Regards,
Krishna
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JR-BejeweledOne 5,836 Moderator on at

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Thank you but this isn't what I am looking for. If we ever need to change the contact person or add additional contact people we would need to edit the app which is what I am trying to avoid.

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After much reading of various articles and trying different things, I have solved my issue.

My source list has a single column that contains the email address of the contact person.

I set the OnVisible property of the screen to set a variable with the contact information from my list.

OnVisible = Set(varContact, DataSource)

Then I have a TextInput field with the items value set to:

Items = First(varContact).Title

In order to send the email using the users default mail client I am using the Launch function for the OnSelect value.

OnSelect = Launch("mailto:" & TextInputContactInfo)

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