Sending email on mobile devices with a button field

You may be able to use a page redirect rule with a URL of mailto:email@example.com?subject=foo&body=bar. I'm not sure how well this works on mobile platforms but it does work with a standard browser.

When you send a system message you have to refresh the page in order to see it (see #663732: How can I make Rules show a message on the current page without a refresh?). Depending on the mobile device and browser, you may not be able to launch a mailto link using JavaScript's location.href, which is what this module uses for page redirection. I would start with a simple button with a Page redirect Rule with a URL of mailto:yourmail@foo.com. If this does not work, it may be a mobile device issue.

If there are no Rules to accomplish what you are looking for, you may have to write your own. You can find the Rules documentation at http://drupal.org/node/298476. If you want your Rule to have a more dynamic URL you can write a Rule that accepts tokens, or write a Rule that just reads the values straight from the database if you don't plan on re-using it.

If you want the user to enter the recipients email address on the form that the button appears on, you will need to have them save the node before clicking on the send button. This certainly isn't desired behaviour, and if this is what you're looking for you may have to look elsewhere. Of course, if you have any ideas about how the button field module can incorporate values on the screen with the Rules module please let me know.

That's correct. Normally Rules are run during a page load, but this module uses ajax to fire the event. The ajax request returns a URL to redirect to (if any) then sets location.href to the URL. In a normal browser, that will redirect the page or open the users mail client if the link is a mailto. The same may not be true for a mobile browser. I will take a closer look at this when I have a chance.

I have created a test page at http://www.jamesarmes.net/plugins/drupal/button_field/redirect. There is a button on this page that redirects to my email address and another that redirects to the homepage ('/'). I tested this in the following browsers on Windows Vista with Mozilla Thunderbird installed:

• Google Chrome 3
• Internet Explorer 8
• Firefox 3.6
• Opera 10
• Safari 4

I also tested using the default browser on my BlackBerry Storm and had no issues.

I am using the latest dev version of Button Field and the latest stable version of Rules (6.x-1.1). See the attached screen shots for the settings for both the evaluation and action. Also, make sure you have the event set to "User Clicks a Button".

Please let me know whether or not you are able to track this back to the button field module. I would like to close this issue as soon as possible.

CinemaSaville, did you succeed in making a button from button_field work with rules ? I have the exact same problem, except that I can delete rules.

I noticed that when clicking the button, http://localhost/~cazou/drupal-6.19/button_field/callback?id=field_subsc...
was called, most certainly, by the AJAX system.

But I don't have a ~cazou/drupal-6.19/button_field/ directory on the server, am I supposed to ?
On BassistJimmyJam's button_field test page, there is a button_field directory.

Is that what's causing the problem ?

When I'm using another trigger (comment published for instance), everything works as expected.

In fact, after checking network activity in wireshark, when the button is clicked, the AJAX request is sent and tries to GET /~detlev/drupal-6.19/button_field/callback?id=field_subscribe-8&path=%2F~detlev%2Fdrupal-6.19%2F HTTP/1.1\r\n
which answers with a 404 page not found...

Did I install the module wrong ? Is there any configuration to make ?

Well, I fixed it by modifying the js/button_field.js :

--- button_field/js/button_field.js     2010-06-06 03:56:52.000000000 +0200
+++ button_field/js/button_field.js.new 2010-12-01 05:19:12.587000053 +0100
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 Drupal.behaviors.buttonFieldBehavior = function(context) {
   $('.button_field').bind('click', function() {
     $.ajax({
-      url: Drupal.settings.basePath+'button_field/callback',
+      url: Drupal.settings.basePath,
       dataType: 'json',
       data: {
+         q: 'button_field/callback',
          id: $(this).attr('id'),                                                                                                                                                
          path: location.pathname                                                                                                                                                
       },

@cazou, do you have clean URLs enabled?

cazou's issue does not appear to be directly related to the topic of this thread, I have opened issue #1299758: Support unclean URLs in button field callback for this.