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Eric_D_Miller
Level 5
Sep 16, 2026 12:03 PM UTC
Question

Searching For A Hyperlink In Note Text

I am attempting to search the system for any Updates/Notes that contain a certain hyperlink. When I run a Note report in Workfront, or do a search in Fusion, I am getting no results.

How can I achieve searching for hyperlinks posted on Notes?

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Heather_Kulbacki
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
Sep 16, 2026 12:53 PM UTC

I have a Note report that I use for searching for specific Updates. When searching for specific text within an update I use a prompt:

Note » Note Text

then CONTAINS

I just ran it for Note Text CONTAINS my.wokfront.com and it gave me 5,000+ results.

If you’re looking for a certain link, try using all or part of the text of that link.

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Eric_D_Miller
Level 5
Sep 16, 2026 1:55 PM UTC

Thank you for the reply.

 

I have used this method but get no results when searching for the entire link. I can confirm that the a Note does exist containing the hyperlink I specify, but nothing comes up when using the CONTAINS search function on a Note report.

Additionally, when I review all of the Notes on the source project, I can find the timecode for the Note I am searching for and see that the Notetext is blank:
 

The hyperlink Note I am looking for is sourced from Fusion, so could there be anything with the HTML that could be getting in the way?

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ChrisStephens
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
Sep 16, 2026 3:06 PM UTC

If you pull in the details for that specific note with Fusion, what object has the hyperlink in it?

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Eric_D_Miller
Level 5
Sep 17, 2026 12:10 PM UTC

Looks like it lives in the html.

however when I do an API call for html on a Note, I am getting a 422 error?

 

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ChrisStephens
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
Sep 18, 2026 2:06 PM UTC

That’s odd. What’s throwing me is what’s in the HTML field is definitely not HTML, and there’s nothing in the noteText field like I would expect it to be, which is how I was going to suggest. Maybe for fun try using noteText anyway?

 

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