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Custom Action (Customer email) - Insert custom field value into URL alias

  I am creating a custom action that sends an email to customers starting a new project, basically welcoming them and providing a link to their roadmap widget.

We have a custom field called Location Code that is unique to each project and I would like to include that in the roadmap widget URL alias.

So far I have:

{If(RoadMap=TRUE,"blah blah blah: "+'<a href='+GetWidgetHyperLink(currentobject(), "roadmap", NULL, TRUE)+ '>  {C_LocationCode}  Project Roadmap</a>',NULL)}

 

But the resulting link in the email displays as:

blah blah blah: {$C_LocationCode} Project Roadmap

 

What I would like to see is:

blah blah blah: ABCDEF-001 Project Roadmap

 

I'm hoping this is a simple HTML coding quirk but is there a way to add a custom field value to the URL alias?

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Hi Richard,

 

GetWidgetHyperLink doesn't return a URL but rather a hyperlink. Therefore, you'll need to parse it first to a URL and reconstruct the HyperLink with your label. Withyour code it should be something like:

{If(RoadMap=TRUE,'blah blah blah: <a href='"+ParseHyperLink(GetWidgetHyperLink(currentobject(), "roadmap", NULL, TRUE))">'+$C_LocationCode+' Project Roadmap</a>',NULL)}

 

Please let me know it makes sense.

 

Good luck!

Tamir

 

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Thanks Tamir. It certainly made sense, conceptually, but didn't work in practice.  A little quote and parentheses tweaking by my pro services rep got it working though.

 

Thanks for the clarification on the URL vs Hyperlink and the required use of ParseHyperLink.

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