Obtain URL of InfoPath form in forms library?

If you look at the code behind the client event activity and look at the destination users section of the code you can see how the K2 wizard constructs the filename that is used to store each form in the SharePoint library. Looking at an example I put together to demonstrate breakpoints in Visual Studio 2005: http://blog.mgallen.com/?p=153 you can see how it is possible to view the code behind the wizards.

The default behaviour for the infopath form filename is something like "<Activity Name> - <Destination User> - <Serial Number>.xml"

You can capture the filename in the wizard and set a custom XML field, and then concatenate your sharepoint URL onto the front of the filename to create the URL.

If you are putting a URL inside a Mail Event body, you will probably find that if you use standard HTML e.g. <a href="http://sharepoint/formslibrary/forms/my activity - DOMAINUser - 45_11">The URL</a> the K2 wizard will wrap this in a SPAN tag making it useless as a clickable link. This presents a slight issue... but if you create the 'a href' string in code and then embed it in your email body you'll find it works correctly.

Martin

Yes for this particular one its difficult as the process is paused until the activity continues.

I wrote a .net class that I included in the project references and called a function to send mail from the part of the code where the URL is generated.

// create mail message object
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.From = "";           // put the from address here
mail.To = "";             // put to address here
mail.Subject = "";        // put subject here
mail.Body = "";           // put body of email here
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = ""; // put smtp server you will use here
// and then send the mail
SmtpMail.Send(mail);

The code above will work in the workflow code with some tweaks... you can get the smtp server from the K2 environment strings.

The email body can be a flexible as you'd like... i've seen an example of creating an email body similar to that of the default notification event.

While on that thought, could you not customise the default notification event for your purposes? This contains the URL of the infopath xml... you can get at that code too, and hack away to your hearts content ;-)

Martin

Ahh yes.... I believe that this is probably handled by the message queuing... so the code is outside of the workflow... so this probably isnt worth touching.

Hopefully someone will back this up with fact rather than my assumption.

Martin