Clipboard functionality in email template - html

I want to send a coupon code in the email template.
A Small button that will copy the content of a input element on the clipboard.
By email Template, i mean i want to send a email which will have a coupon code and there will be a button in the email template which will allow me to copy it to clipboard. Can this be done?
Any help will be appreciated.
Considering that javascript cannot be added inline to the email template, i couldnt think of any other solution.

Short answer is No - This feature would require Javascript.
Long answer - Yes (in a different way) - You could use unique query strings on the button URL (eg ?USER=1&COUPON_CODE=123) that way you could automatically carry the unique coupon code from the email to the landing page form field.
To do this you could assign each member in your database a unique coupon within the CSV file (or whatever you use) and set up a merge field within your ESP and use that to automatically create the strings. For example, your string would look like this when you code it href="http://www.yousite.com/?[%coupon%]" and your ESP will do the rest providing the database is set up correctly.
Hope that makes sense.

Since clipboard's content is changed with javascript, there is no way to do that in an email.
You could, however, build an URL with the coupon code as parameter.

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Reference a custom field in NS on the standard HTML transaction form/SO email form

Does anyone know how to reference a NS field in the standard HTML form?
I have a custom field on my SO that links to our external website. The field uses a formula to pull the NS SO internal ID to create the link so we can send it out to the customer. That field works perfect and I was able to get that link to display properly as an element on the standard PDF form layout that gets emailed to the customer as an attachment on the SO notification email.
Now, here is the issue, I don't know how to reference it on the "a href" html tag in the HTML code on the transaction HTML layout. I know the field name/backend ID, I just don't know how to reference it in the "a href" html tag, this is what I have so far:
Securely View, Edit, & Track the status of this order
(in the curly brackets is my field name and I removed the carrots so the exact code would show up in this text box)
Does anyone know how to get that field from the SO form to show up in the Transaction HTML Layout form?
Actually I figured it out. I needed to have the href set as <NLCUSTBODYPG_LINK_SO>.

HTML Form: Can submitted GET/POST parameters be suppressed using only HTML or CSS?

I am volunteering on a website-based project that is trying to make all pages fully operable JavaScript free before adding any JavaScript for enhancements, and I was asked to investigate whether or not a particular scenario could be handled purely through HTML/CSS.
What we have is a form that is populated to help us filter a list of tickets that are displayed on the screen after a page update through a GET action, which itself works fine, but the concern with the current implementation is that the URL cannot be made into a permanent link. The request, however, to keep the permanent link as minimal as possible, is to only send GET parameters for fields that are populated with something (so, suppressing GET parameters for fields that are blank) instead of having a different GET parameter for each form field on the page.
I have thought of several ways that could be done, most including JavaScript (example: create fields with ids but no names and a hidden field w/ name that uses JS to grab the data from the fields), but also one that would be a POST action with a redirect back to the GET with a human readable string that could be permanently used. The lead dev, however would prefer not to go through the POST/redirect method if at all possible.
That being said, I'm trying to make sure I cover all my bases and ask experts their thoughts on this before I strongly push for the POST/redirect solution: Is there a way using only HTML & CSS to directly suppress GET parameters of a form for fields that are blank without using a POST/redirect?
No, suppressing fields from being submitted in an HTML form with method of "GET" is not possible without using JavaScript, or instead submitting the form with a POST method and using a server side function to minimize the form.
What fields are submitted are defined by the HTML specification and HTML and CSS alone cannot modify this behavior and still have the browser be compliant with the standards.
No, you cannot programmatically suppress any default browser behavior without using some kind of client scripting language, like JavaScript.
As a side note, you say "JavaScript for enhancements", but JavaScript is not used for enhancements these days. And no one in the real world would except a decent front-end without the use of JavaScript. I would suggest you simply use JavaScript.
I do not think you can avoid Javascript here to pre process before submission to eliminate unchanged /empty form fields.

Adding hidden data to HTML MailTo URL

I'm trying to send an email with hyperlinks with "mailto", to email me back. I'm trying to automate the replies as they come in using mailitems in VBA, for example:
Dim Item As MailItem
Set oItems = Outlook.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items
For Each Item In oItems
etc. And searching for key words/IDs to indicate which link the sender has clicked, however the chance of the sender changing the subject or body of the email would be a spanner in that plan.
Is there a way that I can embed some hidden data (like an ID and yes/no response, for example) in the HTML of the mailto in order to properly identify the emailer, even if they change all the visible email data, and then what is the best way of accessing that data using code similiar to the above?
Is there a better way of doing this? Am I approaching this the wrong way? or am I totally barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks for your help!
You won't be able to pass an hidden data with a mailto, everything could be changed by the sender.
A better way of doing it is to make a little form in HTML & PHP (for example), with in your emails a link to this form passing the ID in the url, then retrieve this ID in your form, then saving this ID when the form is submitted.
You could also make links in your emails pointing to a redirection page saving the ID passed in parameter in the url then redirecting to the mailto: final 'link'. It would allow you to know who clicked on which link in your emails.

Customize Ektron HTML Form Email Layout

I would like to know if there's a way to customize the email HTML body contents when submitting an Ektron HTML form.
For example, a form is submitted and the form data is emailed to john#doe.gov. Upon opening the email, there is a table containing the data from the submitted form. I want to know if there's a way to modify the HTML table which was generated for that email.
My goal is to experiment with some CSS to force word-wrapping in the table so lengthy textarea-input data will be wrapped appropriately.
I've never tried customizing it, so I don't know if there are any "gotchas", but these files look promising:
/Workarea/controls/forms/DefaultFormEmailBody.xslt
/Workarea/controls/forms/template_FormDataDisplay.xslt
/Workarea/controls/forms/template_FormFieldValue.xslt
The table is generated in "template_FormDataDisplay.xslt", and the individual table rows are generated in "template_FormFieldValue.xslt".
The usual "I want to modify something in the workarea" warning applies: Make backups of any file you change, and know that installing an upgrade to Ektron will overwrite any of your changes.
Are you using php? Because you can edit the way that email looks once you open it. This is an awesome tutorial:
http://tangledindesign.com/how-to-create-a-contact-form-using-html5-css3-and-php/

URLENCODE Variable in Salesforce Vertical Response Email

This is a rather simple question, but I cannot find documentation about it from Salesforce.
I am setting up an HTML Newsletter from Salesforce Vertical Response, and I need to put a link in the body of the email that goes to another site which takes the user's email address as a query string. I am doing this so that when the user clicks the link from the HTML email, they will automatically be signed up for a different blog mailing list.
The link will look like this www.mywebsite.com/blog/subscribe?email=your_email#email.com.
I can easily accomplish this by using the {EMAIL_ADDRESS} variable, such that the link looks like this:
Subsribe
This workds, but when the user gets the email and clicks the link, the '#' symbol gets stripped from the URL. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get around this. I saw some documentation on the URLENCODE() function for SalesForce, but when I try to use it in the HTML email editor in SalesForce, like URLENCODE({EMAIL_ADDRESS})it doesn't execute it, and instead interprets it literally as text. Can anyone help me? is it even possible to use functions from within the SalesForce HTML email editor?
Thanks
I havent used VerticalResponse, but if it leans on salesforce communication templates then you can always create an email template as Visualforce page. Then you can apply Encode functions to merge fields.
I'm glad you were able to find a workaround. If you ever go back to dealing with the URL, it's a good idea to disable our click-tracking when working with merge fields. This can be accomplished by adding nr_ before the http. Example: Subsribe - If you ever try that and it doesn't work, or if you have any other questions, please let us know via one of our Support channels:
support#verticalresponse.com
866-683-7842 x1
We also have live chat available: http://help.verticalresponse.com/
Regards,
Keith Gluck
VerticalResponse Customer Support