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# Compose Email

> Trigger an email draft on the user's device.

The **Compose Email** action allows users to tap a button and trigger an email draft on their device.

![Compose Email - Image 1](/docs/_fern-img/66b07eef215a98e8bff44f5cce7dbda64edd5eddfa84b70c53dbdcf553be2d4d.webp)

The **Compose Email** action can be used as an action in the components of your app (like [Buttons](/docs/essentials/components/button), [Collections](/docs/essentials/components/collections), and much more), or it can be triggered along with other actions as part of a [Workflow](/docs/getting-started/introduction-to-workflows).

## **Setting up the Compose Email Action**

#### Layout Editor

#### Compose Email Layout Arcade

Click on the plus (+) sign in the **Components** panel and select the **Contact** or **Button** component.

In the **General** tab on the right side of the Layout Editor, navigate to the **Actions** section and select **Compose email**.

Select the icon and descriptive text to use in your app.

Choose the values to add to the draft email. Each field can be filled in with a custom static value, or with dynamic values from a column in your data. The fields you can add values to are:

* **To:** The email address or addresses you want to send the message to.
* **Subject:** The subject of the email message.
* **Body:** The body text of the email message.
* **CC:** Send a copy of the email to someone who is not the recipient listed in the **To** field. This can also include multiple email addresses as a comma-separated list.
* **BCC:** Send a copy of the email to someone who is not the recipient listed in the  **To** field. This can also include multiple email addresses as a comma-separated list. When using **BCC**, the recipients cannot view the other recipients who may be included in the **BCC** field, but they can view the email addresses that are included in the **To** and **CC** fields.

You can also leave any of these blank if you don't need that field.

You can optionally add **Conditions** for certain criteria to be met before a user can trigger this action.

If you select the contact component, Glide will automatically display options to dial a phone number, compose SMS, and compose email. To delete any of these options that you don't need, click on the action and then click on the delete icon.

#### Workflow Editor

#### Compose Email Action Editor Arcade

Select the **+ New Action** button. If you have existing actions, click on the plus (+) sign in the left panel.

Select the **data source** for your action.

Configure your first action by clicking the first action in the sequence. You can also add Conditions to your actions, if needed.

To add new actions to the flow, hover just underneath an action and click the plus button. In this way you can add the Compose Email action as just one step in a larger workflow.

Check the [Introduction to Actions](/docs/automation/actions) page for a full list of components that can be used to trigger actions.