Creating a link to the current item in a workflow

By Kit

When creating a workflow using SharePoint Designer, oftentimes it is useful to be able to create a link to the current list item. Unfortunately, the built in columns are not so helpful.

Below are a couple of the columns that are found in the Current Item:

Workflow String Builder URL columns

Here is the result after running the workflow for an item:

Encoded Absolute URL:

http://server/sites/SiteCollection/Workflow/Lists/RandomTester/1_.000

Server Relative URL:

/sites/SiteCollection/Workflow/Lists/RandomTester/1_.000

Path:

sites/SiteCollection/Workflow/Lists/RandomTester

URL Path:

/sites/SiteCollection/Workflow/Lists/RandomTester/1_.000  

 All of these URLs are pretty much useless except for Path since they all have “1_.000” appended on the end of them. I think this has something to do with the version number… but why this is on the end makes no sense to me.

What this means then, is that you have to create a URL to the item.

You can copy a link to the DispForm.aspx page and then use the current item’s ID:

http://server/sites/SiteCollection/Workflow/Lists/RandomTester/DispForm.aspx?ID=[]%RandomTester:ID%]