No More Mailto
Does this sound familiar, "The email links on Powerschool are not working for me. When I click one it tells me I need to setup Outlook Express?!"
This is why my middle school asked to have all the Mailto links disabled on the parent portal. If your school feels the same way install these custom pages and kiss the idea that everyone uses an email client goodbye.
Or if you already customize the parent portal you can incorporate just the mailto search and destroy functionality.
These pages are formatted for PS version 7.
Technical details:
- Added a jQuery script to home.html that finds every Mailto link on the page after the quicklookup stuff is rendered and takes out the href attribute.
- Removed the Mailto links entirely fromt the teachercomments.html page and added a colum that displays the teacher's email address as plain text. Also made it so the teacher's name is the same popup link as the mini icon next to them.
- Removed the Mailto link in teacherinfo.html and left the email address as plain text. This is the page that renders the teacher details popup from both home.html and teachercomments.html.
Installation:
1. Download and unzip "No_More_Mailto_v1.html"
2. Copy all three pages to powerschool folder/data/custom/web_root/guardian/ on your server. Or upload the zip file with Custom Page Management if your using it (download Pearson's guide to CPM).
Version History:
1.1 - Slighlty altered for string changes in PowerSchool version 7.1. Corrected the zip file structure to work properly when imported via CPM.
1.0 - Initial release.
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