formating the hyperlink in the hyperlink field

Question

Hi,

I'm sorry if the title of the question is confusing.

I have a hyperlink field in my list. When I create a new item in the list, a workflow puts a hyperlink in that field for that item. For example : http://www.google.com

Now I don't want this hyperlink to appear. Rather I would like a text like "Google" to appear, which should be clickable. Is it something doable from within the workflow.

I tried to put url followed by a comma and description, but both appear :(

Can you please help me in this.

Many thanks for your reply !

Kind Regards,

prajK

Answer 1

The field type of hyperlink field is SPFieldUrlValue. You need to set its properties Url and Description.

See this for more information:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUrlValue

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Nadeem Yousuf

Answer 2

Hi,

As I understand, you want to change the format of the hyperlink in the hyperlink field.

For this issue, can you give me the screenshot about your workflow?  

I tested the same scenario per your post in my environment, and the hyperlink field worked fine.

You can test with the steps below in your environment:

1. Open SharePoint designer 2013 and create a workflow for the list.

2.  Add an action “set workflow variable” to add the URL and description such as “http://www.google.com, google”.

3. Add action “set field in current item” to set the hyperlink field to the workflow variable you have created.

Best regards

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Sara Fan
TechNet Community Support

Answer 3

Hi Sara,

Thanks for your response. It worked for me. Awsome. :)

So is there a way if my destination field is a text field and i can still format. I mean what if my field is of type "text field" instead of type "hyperlink" ? Is there a way for that too ?

Because, i also tested this with text field, but didn't work with that. I was just curious to know. 

thanks again. 

Regards