Launch function not working in an App within Power BI

[Ahmed-Alsuhail]

Hi all,

I am working on my first app. The app has a gallery which contains a button with the following in the OnSelect field:

Launch("Mailto:"&'Modified By'.Email&"?subject=Hello&body=%0ALast modified by: "&ThisItem.'Modified By'.DisplayName&" on "&Modified&"%0AComment:%0A"& TextInput1.Text)

This works as expected in PowerApps but the button doesn't do anything when clicked within Power BI. Everything else in the app works as expected within Power BI (i.e.: filtering using Power BI, writing back to SP list). Does Launch work in an app within PBI and/or is their a better way to do the above?

Thanks in advance.

[Ahmed-Alsuhail]

Hi all,

I've done more research and there seems to be nothing around this, can an app not trigger such actions within Power BI?

Thanks

[v-siky-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ahmed-Alsuhail ,

Yes, I can also reproduce your issue. It is not supported to launch Outlook client in PowerApps Visual from PowerBI.

As an alternative workaround, please try with launch Online Outlook.

Launch("https://outlook.office.com/mail/deeplink/compose?realm=example.com&to={TestAccount@Domain.com}&subject={Subject goes here}&body={Body goes here}")

Hope this helps.

Sik

[kman42]

I just ran into this issue today and it is so frustrating. I completed the app in PowerApps and it works perfectly, but when viewing the visual in PowerBI, nothing happens when I click the button. Why does this not work? Just launch the default email client like you are supposed to when executing the mailto: url.  Please fix this.