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URL in email service task break link on spaces in Dynamic fields

Forms Business Processes Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions

Updated October 23, 2020

asked on October 22, 2020 • Show version history

We have the following logic in the body of an email service task:

{/dataset/EnvironmentBaseURL}Forms/SupervisorReview?Report___={/dataset/Report___}&Approver_s_Name_={/dataset/Supervisor_s_First_Name_}%20{/dataset/Supervisor_s_Last_Name_}&Employee_s_Name_={/dataset/Injured_Employee_s_Name_First}%20{/dataset/Injured_Employee_s_Name_Last}&ID={/dataset/_instance_id}

The problem is that if there is a Title or other space (for example SGT Frank) in the first name, or last name (example Castle Sr) , the entire URL brakes. I have looked at adding a regular expression or try to url encode the entire string, but I am losing the dynamic vars.

Any thoughts or assistance is much appreciated.

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replied on October 23, 2020

So I was able to address this by going into the HTML view of the Email Body and embed the entire set of vars in an Href tag, then provide a display name like so:

<a href>{/dataset/EnvironmentBaseURL}Forms/SupervisorReview?Report___={/dataset/Report___}&Approver_s_Name_={/dataset/Supervisor_s_First_Name_}%20{/dataset/Supervisor_s_Last_Name_}&Employee_s_Name_={/dataset/Injured_Employee_s_Name_First}%20{/dataset/Injured_Employee_s_Name_Last}&ID={/dataset/_instance_id}> Continue Approval Process </a>

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replied on October 22, 2020

What I might do is build the url encoded path via JS and then save that into a single form field, and use that in the email task. Another alternative approach could be send the email via a workflow task where you can easily URL encode each parameter there. Hope this helps!

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