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April 12, 2019
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Short Text for URL in Reports

  • April 12, 2019
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Looking for a way to shorten the display of a link, especially if I could use a custom text string that still retains the active, clickable link. As one example here is a custom field in a task report that links from the listing of that task up to the custom form tab at the project level. The concern is that the link is very long and not self-descriptive to my average user. displayname=Proj Form textmode=true valueexpression=CONCAT("https://qbp.my.workfront.com","/","project/view?ID=",{projectID},"&activeTab=form-customdata") valueformat=HTML It would be great if this column displayed click here or Open Proj Form , instead of this: https://bizname.my.workfront.com/project/view?ID=lo4560t98s8of9nu90m80s9a8ndl4e41ts&activeTab=form-customdata Any ideas? PS I am really hoping to do this via a report field, and not through creation of a custom form, which not only requires applying the form to many objects, but also doesn't seem to support transition from one object type to another, such as linking to a project tab from a task report. Justin White Quality Bicycle Products
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Level 8
April 12, 2019
@Narayan Raum created a WFPro site/guide that includes a whole bunch of extremely helpful text mode information, and one of the topics looks like it may help you with what you are looking to accomplish -- "https://wf-pro.com/textmode/text-mode-views/#user-friendly-url" style="background-color: #ffffff;">Friendly URL (Any Object) Terry Hynd EBSCO Information Services
Level 10
April 15, 2019
Hi Justin, what I had to do is calculate the URL on the custom form of the object as text. Then, in the view, you can use text mode to render a clickable custom link. The page Terry mentions has some examples. Hope this helps! Terry, thanks for pointing Justin in the WFPro direction! Narayan Raum Workfront Delivery Lead - SunTrust Bank https://wf-pro.com for Text Mode & More
JustinWhAuthor
Level 3
April 15, 2019
Thank you both, I appreciate the responses! I'm still hoping to find a way to do this without having to use custom forms, but I will use this method from Narayan if I can't find another way. Justin White Quality Bicycle Products