Mailto: functionality

Hello,
I'm trying to set up a function on my dashboard so that the user can click a button and it brings up an email with the selected report as the subject. I have 4 tabs with 4 different scrolling lists and have got the 4 lists over each other (haven't quite worked out how to link one list to 4 tabs)
Can anyone help with this please. I'm using Xcelsius 2008.
I'm also a selt taught beginner so please bear with me.
Thanks

Are you accessing the dashboard from within the web browser? if so this should work:
Add a TEXT component to the canvas and link it to a spreadsheet cell. In the cell paste
="<a href=mailto:[email protected]> Send Email </a>"
Replace "#" with mailto syntax wrapped in single quotes (can't post it here).
Then check the box for Enable HTML Formatting
If this works you can extend it by building the mailto syntax dynamically and add Subject etc.

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