Allow mailto links in Help Menu

[jtorres1]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

    

  Idea open for vote Wed. December 7, 2016 - Wed. March 1, 2017  Learn more about voting...

Prior to the Help Menu receiving an upgrade, we were able to add a mailto link so an item in the Help Menu could be linked to an email address, but that is no longer an option. For example, we previously used this function to report content errors and that link sent you directly to the appropriate email address for reporting. This is no longer available and we have had to create a page in Canvas that this can link to and it is much less efficient.

  Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-01-07)

[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta How do I access the Canvas beta environment?

For more information, please read through the Canvas Beta Release Notes (2016-12-19)

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[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-01-07)

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to jtorres for submitting this idea, as well as,  @rake_9  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of Canvas!

[jtorres1]

Thanks so much! I'm really excited to see this has been picked up and developed!

[RSMacLeod]

Hi,

If this feature has been returned, I cannot seem to find it.  I picture this as an option in the embed link command but I cannot see any such option.  I can (with a LOT of care) insert this functionality using the HTML editing mode, but this is extremely tedious.   

Thanks,

Rob

[Stef_retired]

u0035742‌, the completed feature on which you've commented is specific to Canvas admins' ability to configure the help menus for their respective institutions. If this functionality is something you'd like to see added to the Canvas Rich Content Editor without having to switch to the HTML Editor, please submit it as a new idea after reading https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-2109-how-does-the-voting-process-work-for-feature-ideas?sr=...‌ and https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-1330-how-do-i-create-a-new-feature-idea?sr=search&searchId=...‌