View: external URL using custom data field

Last update: February 19, 2025

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You can display a link to an internal custom URL by using a Calculated Custom Field named “Custom URL” in a Task View.

This helps you quickly link from certain objects in a view to certain areas of the application directly from your reports.

When creating a calculated custom field, you must first create the field, then create the View.

The following sections are an example of a calculated custom field for tasks. The custom field is called Custom URL. The custom view displays the field’s value as well as the URL field for tasks.

Using the same steps, you can create similar calculated custom fields and custom views for all the objects in the system that have a Custom Form.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront planAny
Adobe Workfront license

Current:

  • Request to modify a view
  • Plan to modify a report

New:

  • Contributor to modify a view
  • Standard to modify a report
Access level configurations*

Edit access to Reports, Dashboards, Calendars to modify a report

Edit access to Filters, Views, Groupings to modify a view

Object permissionsManage permissions to a report

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Create the “Custom URL” calculated custom field

For information about creating a calculated custom field, see Add calculated fields to a form.

If you have access to create a custom form, you can create a calculated custom field for tasks called “Custom URL.” This field links directly to the Overview subtab within the Task Details tab.

  1. Create a calculated custom field.

  2. In the Calculation field, enter the following code:

    CONCAT(‘‘https://<domain>.my.workfront.com",“/”,“task/”,ID,"/overview’’)

  3. Replace “<domain>” with your actual domain name, without the brackets. The /overview portion of this URL directs the link to the Overview section in the left panel of the task.

  4. After creating your Calculated Custom Field, attach the Custom Form with this field to several tasks in Adobe Workfront that you want display in your new view.

Create the view which displays the “Custom URL” and “URL” fields of the task

The task View in the example below displays the Calculated Custom Field called “Custom URL” as a direct link to the Overview subtab within the task Details tab, as well as the URL field of the task.

(assets/task-view-with-custom-url-field-quicksilver-350x70.png)

To customize this view:

  1. Go to a list of tasks.

  2. Expand the View drop-down at the top of your task list.

  3. Click Customize View.

  4. Remove all the columns inside the view, except for the first column.

  5. Click the header of the first column.

  6. Click Switch to Text Mode > Edit Text Mode.

  7. Remove the text in the Edit Text Mode box and replace it with the following code:

    column.0.descriptionkey=name
column.0.link.linkproperty.0.name=ID
column.0.link.linkproperty.0.valuefield=ID
column.0.link.linkproperty.0.valueformat= int
column.0.link.lookup=link.view
column.0.link.valuefield= objCode
column.0.link.valueformat= val
column.0.linkedname=direct
column.0.listsort=string(name)
column.0.namekey=name.abbr
column.0.querysort=name
column.0.shortview=false
column.0.stretch=100
column.0.valuefield=name
column.0.valueformat=HTML
column.0.width=150
column.1.description=Custom URL
column.1.link.isnewwindow=true
column.1.link.url=customDataLabelsAsString(Custom URL)
column.1.linkedname=direct
column.1.listsort=customDataLabelsAsString(Custom URL)
column.1.name=Custom URL
column.1.querysort=URL
column.1.shortview=false
column.1.stretch=0
column.1.valuefield=Custom URL
column.1.valueformat=customDataLabelsAsString
column.1.width=150
column.2.descriptionkey=url
column.2.linkedname=direct
column.2.listsort=string(URL)
column.2.namekey=url.abbr
column.2.querysort=URL
column.2.shortview=false
column.2.stretch=0
column.2.valuefield=URL
column.2.valueformat=HTML
column.2.width=150

    In this example the ‘column.1.’ lines display the value in the ‘Custom URL’ field as a link into the task’s Overview section; ‘column.2.’ displays the value stored in the URL Field of the task.

  8. Click Done > Save View.

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