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One of the most requested features from my clients were: How can I easily send a link to a document?

Well, I think a pretty easy to use, fast and lovely way is to customize the hoverpanel / call out of the documents.

Normal document call out / hoverpanel:

 

The endresult we will get, looks like this:

And after you click on “Send link” you mailclient (in my case Outlook, german version) will open like this:

Now you can specify the send to property and the user will recieve a email like this:

In my opinion this is the perfect solution to send a link from a document.
So, how did I get this?

You can test it, if you place a Content-Editor webpart to your document library :

and place the following script into it:

<script>
SP.SOD.executeFunc("callout.js", "Callout", function () {
  var itemCtx = {};
  itemCtx.Templates = {};
  itemCtx.BaseViewID = 'Callout';
  // Define the list template type
  itemCtx.ListTemplateType = 101;
  itemCtx.Templates.Footer = function (itemCtx) {
    // context, custom action function, show the ECB menu (boolean)
    return CalloutRenderFooterTemplate(itemCtx, AddCustomAction, true);
  };
  SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides(itemCtx);
});

function AddCustomAction (renderCtx, calloutActionMenu) {      

  // Custom Action Send Mail
  var editPropUrl = renderCtx.CurrentItem.FileRef;
  editPropUrl = editPropUrl.replace(/ /g, '%20');

  var preUrl = _spPageContextInfo.siteAbsoluteUrl;

  calloutActionMenu.addAction (new CalloutAction ({
    text: "Send Link",
    tooltip: 'Send link to document',
    onClickCallback: function() 
    {  

       var strTest = buildMailTo('', 'Link to document', 'There you go: nn' + preUrl + editPropUrl + 'nn Cheers');
       window.location(strTest);

    }
  }));
}

function buildMailTo(address, subject, body, preUrl, editPropUrl) {
    var strMail = 'mailto:' + encodeURIComponent(address)
                   + '?subject=' + encodeURIComponent(subject)
                   + '&body=' + encodeURIComponent(body);
    return strMail;
}

</script>

After that everything should work. If nothing has changed check under Site settings -> Manage Site features -> Following Content & Minimal Download Strategy might be active. Try again with deactivated features.

If you want get this features in all your libraries you could append the script e.G. into your masterpage.

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