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How to send values to Forms from Workflow as a link?

asked on September 21, 2016 Show version history

I have created a workflow process that is creating up to 3 Web Access URL's for documents within a repository. At the end of this workflow it is invoking a Forms business process and passing the URL's to 3 different variables in the Forms business process. At the first user task it has a form that has a Custom HTML field that is set to show the 3 values for the variables above.

When I run the process it is creating a token for each of the 3 Web Access URLs and applying the <a href=""></a> tags around the URL values and inserting the URL as the value for href. The workflow invokes the Forms process correctly and populates the 3 Web Access URLs correctly in the custom HTML field. The problem is that even though it shows and looks like a link, the user is not able to click on it like a link. Is there something else that needs to be done to make this happen?

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replied on September 22, 2016

I ended up inspecting the code with the F12 tools and it looks like some how I missed putting in the = for the href="".

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replied on September 21, 2016

If an anchor tag looks like a link but doesn't do anything when clicked, that usually means the value of the href attribute is invalid. Try encoding the URLs as HTML when inserting them into the Invoke Forms Business Process activity. You can do that by entering HTML into the Formatting box in the token editor.

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replied on September 22, 2016

I ended up inspecting the code with the F12 tools and it looks like some how I missed putting in the = for the href="".

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replied on December 19, 2018

Are you able to populate links directly into the html field from workflow, or do you have to go to a field, then let Javascript populate the html field?

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