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Copying an email address

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Andrew

27 Sep, 2014 02:21 AM

Is there an easy way to copy the plain-text email address of the person who opened a discussion? This is something I need to do several times a day, and I've found two ways to make it work, but neither is optimal:

1. Right-click on their name and "Copy Link". But this copies "mailto:" as well, which is annoying.
2. Click on the name to open their user page, and then select the email address and copy it. But the email address here is a hyperlink between brackets, and it's annoying to get the caret on the inside of the bracket and select the text without activating the link.

I don't want to email them. I'm using their email address to look up their account in our CRM database. Is there an easy way to do what I'm trying to do?

1. 1 Posted by Julien on 27 Sep, 2014 12:25 PM

   

   Hey Andrew,

   Is your CRM web based? When you search, does it have an address like: http://XXX/search?q=EMAIL for example. Ie an URL that leads to either the search or directly the profile, and contains the EMAIL in it.

   Thanks.

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2. 2 Posted by Andrew on 27 Sep, 2014 01:24 PM

   

   No, it is desktop software. It's basically a text field where I paste the email address.

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3. 3 Posted by Julien on 29 Sep, 2014 01:43 PM

   

   Hey Andrew,

   I see that you are using Safari. You can use Firefox with Greasemonkey or Chrome with Tampermonkey, and install this script. It will show the user email address next to his name at the top.

   Let me know if that could work for you.

   Cheers!

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4. 4 Posted by Andrew on 29 Sep, 2014 01:47 PM

   

   Great, thanks. I made a bookmarklet out of it so I can use it in Safari.

   Here it is in case it benefits anyone else:

   javascript:(function(){if(Tender.is_supporter){jQuery('.original-post%20.user-link').each(function(i,element){var%20email=jQuery(element).data('user-email');jQuery(element).after('%20-%20'+email);});}})();
   

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5. 5 Posted by Julien on 29 Sep, 2014 02:09 PM

   

   Great! Thanks :)

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6. Julien closed this discussion on 29 Sep, 2014 02:09 PM.