I have 2 lists, candidateList and emailList.

In ListA, and object has various fields such as Candidate (lookup field) and a textBody. When viewing a ListA object I have added a button to email.

When selecting email, I want to direct the user to the emailList newItem form, with the candidateID and the text from the textBody and populate fields on the newItem form.

I believe that the best way to do this is via a query string, that when I click the email button, I pass the data to the newItem form.

Unfortunately I am not sure how to generate the query string to pass, and how to read that query string on the other form to populate.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!

(Using SharePoint Designer 2013)

I have 2 lists, candidateList and emailList.

In ListA, and object has various fields such as candidate (lookup field) and a textBody. When viewing a ListA object I have added a button to email.

When selecting email, I want to direct the user to the emailList newItem form, with the candidate and the text from the bodyText and populate fields on the newItem form.

I believe that the best way to do this is via a query string, that when I click the email button, I pass the data to the newItem form.

Unfortunately I am not sure how to generate the query string to pass, and how to read that query string on the other form to populate.

From what I understand, on my email button press I need to pass the values in the url, like '/Lists/SentMails/NewFormInsert.aspx?candidate=@Candidate=1&bodyText=@BodyText' But those values are within a <xsl:value-of select="@Candidate"/>, so I need to somehow get the xsl value first as a string before I can pass it via the url?

Stumped at this point. :(

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!

(Using SharePoint Designer 2013)