Wednesday, May 9, 2012

How do I link to the U-LINC "Workflows" SharePoint window from an email?

When creating a SharePoint workflow, you may want to include a link to the U-LINC "Workflows" window to ease the navigation to assigned workflow tasks from an email sent to the "Assigned To" user.  This is quite easy to do. 


This window will show all running workflows as well as their associated tasks including a history of completed tasks associated with the selected item.

You will want to gather a couple pieces of information from the "Integrations" window in the U-LINC SharePoint application.  You will want to make note of the URL to the site in which U-LINC is installed.  Also, you will want the exact name (case is important) for the target integration/list.  In this case my site URL is http://tfranz6/ulinc and the target integration/list name is "Employees".


From SharePoint Designer, or your SharePoint workflow builder of choice, simply create a "Click Here" hyperlink and for the Address of the hyperlink, put in the following:

You will want to replace the highlighted snippets with the associated information you previously gathered.  Also, the [%Current Item: ID%] was added using the "Add or Change Lookup" button and selecting the ID from the Current Item.


Hope this helps!

(Note: This approach was changed and will require U-LINC version 1.2 or later.  There is a different method for the RTM version that is still supported in 1.2.)

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