Call and Mail Links

[namratamadnani]

How to create ‘click-to-call’ and ‘click-to-mail’ links in Anvil?

[shaun]

If you want a link that opens the user’s own email/call software, you can use a Link with mailto: or tel: at the start of the URL.

Here’s a clone link for that app:

https://anvil.works/build#clone:PQZZAWPYWFHLWH5A=W5FNRSATGR27GYNZ46WVCMSF

Sending emails and making calls from your app

You can send emails using the Email Service, it’s simply anvil.email.send().

https://anvil.works/blog/email-driven-apps

Regarding click-to-call, you would have to embed a service that allows web calling. If the service has a JavaScript API, you can import it using Native Libraries:

and use a CustomHTML Form to write the JavaScript.

Here’s an example where I embedded Jitsi (a web-based video conferencing service similar to Google Hangouts) into an Anvil app:

How can I build a VoIP system in anvil?

Here’s a video conferencing app built in Anvil. It uses Jitsi. https://anvil.works/build#clone:4J2M4VZAYTHI4UUR=VAM7DYIGKPTUBBONICGS7NUX [jitsi] Everybody using the app is on the same call - Jitsi uses a ‘room name’ to identify what call to join, and this app has it hard coded. You could easily add a TextBox to input the room name so people can join a call of their choice. How it works It imports Jitsi in Native Libraries: <script src="https://meet.jit.si/external_api.js"></script> And it …