Comments on: Outing SharePoint Workflows – Linking to Workflows in List Views and Item Displays

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:28:53 +0000

I’m a workflow novice, but I’d figured most of this out on my own for a work project, and was able to mark issues list items as “Open” or “Resolved” using the link. However, I kept getting issues with the ID not passing properly after a list item had already been updated using the link. Discovered the error during a demo…oops.

Thank you, Greg Schaefer for helping me learn that the [ID] field cannot be used in a calculated field. I created a second workflow to populate a “dummy” field in the list, and I’m getting 100% success rate on my tests now that I am using the dummy field instead of the [ID].

I love EUSP…it has been the most useful SharePoint community I’ve found and has helped me, who has about 12 months of SP experience) look like a superstar! Keep up the GREAT work, team!

By: Greg Schaefer

Greg Schaefer — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:24:49 +0000

Hey Mark,
Really like both methods you describe to add the hyperlink to a workflow.
Quick, elegant and simple.

Another method (for pure end users with no access to SPD) would be to use Christophe at PathtoSharepoint ‘Text to HTML’ method and a calculated column. Successfully used it to generate an ‘Add to my Outlook’ hyperlink (see posts on STP – including some by Laura Rogers).
Note that your method is much more straight forward b/c you don’t need to create a ‘dummy’ ID via workflow at item creation (SP not letting you directly use the ID field in calculated columns)

Greg

PS: There are some lines of text between the code sample and the last video (starts with csharpcode, .csharpcode pre ). guessing it is jst a typo?

By: erugalatha

erugalatha — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:56:24 +0000

Any solution to this issue needs to work for Documents and InfoPath forms too. Otherwise you have an inconsistent way of start workflows depending whether the user is working with a List Item or a Document/InfoPath Form.