Returning The SharePoint Start Workflow Link

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Building the “Start Workflow” link is pretty straight forward. I am pretty sure there are better ways to do it, but here is an approach when you have to build the link using a string return. How it works is pretty straightforward. Consuming a SPListItem and SPWorkflowAssociation parameter, the SPListItem exposes the ParentList and ID properties and the SPWorkflowAssociation provides the InstantiationUrl and Id properties. The only field level stuff is I was passing a finish url in the query string (_finalurl in the below). When the link is built, it is cleaned up using the inherent SPHttpUtility.UrlKeyValueEncode method.

private string _finalurl;
public static string QueryStringAppend(string url, string args)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
{
return url;
}
var num = url.LastIndexOf("?");
switch (num)
{
case -1:
return (string.Format("{0}?{1}", url, args));
}
return num == (url.Length - 1) ? url + args : string.Format("{0}&{1}", url, args);
}
protected string BuildWorkflowStartLink(SPListItem listItem, SPWorkflowAssociation workflowAssociation)
{
var builder = new StringBuilder();
builder.Append(SPHttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(string.Format("{0}/{1}", Web.Url, workflowAssociation.InstantiationUrl), true));
builder.Append("?List=");
builder.Append(listItem.ParentList.ID.ToString());
builder.Append("&ID=");
builder.Append(listItem.ID.ToString());
builder.Append("&TemplateID=");
builder.Append(workflowAssociation.Id.ToString("B"));
string url = _finalurl ?? Request.QueryString["Source"];
url = QueryStringAppend(url, string.Format("{0}={1}", FinishIdName ?? "ID", listItem.ID));
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
{
builder.Append("&Source=");
builder.Append(SPHttpUtility.UrlKeyValueEncode(url));
}
return builder.ToString();
}

One Comment

26-05-2011

Ernesto says:
How much different will this be if it is a Workflow site?

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