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Create clickable link to item in description field
Hi,
I have created a Flow that sends a task to Planner when a SP-item is created. Now I need to include a clickable link to the SP-item in the Planner description field. How do I achieve this? ...
Maggan Wåhlin
I have tried many different possible solutions and I have found a workaround that works for me at least, but I hope it will work for you too. Give it a try.
Please give me some feedback about the result as I'd like to know if this is a workaround for me only or I could share this on other forums also.
1. Click HTML View first.
2. Add <a href="[Link to item]">Click link</a> to the description
- Thank you.
- Thanks. This worked like a charm.
What I ultimately did was to add the link into the References section of the Update task details action. See image below. The link opens the DisplayForm of the SharePoint item.
Sorry for the swedish language, but I think you´ll get the hang of it 😉
- Thanks so much for this explanation, Maggan. We used your approach to be able to link to originating tasks in our Planner for assignees who receive follow up tasks. As a lot of information is found in the original (but closed and completed) tasks, this proves really helpful for those in charge of following up on all sorts of tasks.
We did, however, insert the link in the description field, seeing as Power Automate does not (yet) seem to support a way to uncheck the "Show on card" that defaults when we use References - this took up a lot of space in the Follow Up Bucket, so it quickly became messy and cluttered.
So, while we hope for extended options in Power Automate for both toggling the "show on card" and inserting html in the description field, this works a charm for our setup.
Your hints for initializing a variable was the kick we needed, though. Thank you!
Thank you! I've been searching and trying for hours on end and this worked like a charm.
Guido Matis I think that is solving a different problem. We were trying to add a clickable link to the description field of a Task that is assigned to someone in a Plan which is not the same thing as adding a link to an email message.
- In this case I'm sorry for putting this solution to a wrong article.
