Send URL link of discussion board topic in an email from Sharepoint Designer

Question

I have set up a Sharepoint 2007 Discussion Board. I want to create a workflow that sends and email to the creator of a topic within the discussion board when there is a reply on the topic. I want the email to contain a link to the discussion topic - the user can click the link see the original topic as well as the replies.

I managed to create a workflow in sharepoint designer which emails the original creator when there is a new reply BUT i cannot get a link to the topic.

I have tried using (http://servername-etc/Topic Subject) which I can correctly outputs as text, however when I try enclosing this in tags it breaks; the link contains spaces and SPD doesn't seem to like that.

Is there a better way to send a link of the current discussion topic via email?????

EDIT: to get the url in sharepoint designer, I currently use http://server/[%listName:Path%] - this doesn't seem to be the ideal approach though

Answer 1

We still use SP 2007 here and I ran into this problem where I needed to have the workflow email a link to the discussion topic in either flat or thread view. I got around this by requesting data from myself in the workflow prior to sending the notification. And I store that as a variable to then use in the notification email. Perfect workaround!

Answer 2

I was trying to do the same in SharePoint Designer 2010 and used the Field from source: "URL Path". "Encode Absolute URL" also does the trick.

Answer 3

To get a link to list items I use

To view the request, click <a href="SITE URL/Lists/LISTNAME/DispForm.aspx?ID=ID LOOKUP ">here</a>

Answer 4

Probably he can subscribe to the alerts or you can programatically subscribe him to alerts in the event handler for your discussion board.