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I have a custom web part that approves a task.

I want to send an email from the workflow that includes the link of the web part and task id. So that the moment I click that link the web part will be shown populated with the values in a list.

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  • Is that webpart only web part on your page? And is it a kind of form which show details about the task?
    – Asad Refai
    Commented May 7, 2015 at 12:18
  • Also does your webpart contains any custom code to retrieve data based on task id?
    – Asad Refai
    Commented May 7, 2015 at 12:22

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Approving a task or similar actions in theory means you are updating a list item. And each list item has a unique ID, and it can be easily retrieved in a SharePoint workflow.

From your question, I understand you have 3 requirements

1. Send an email from a workflow. Which is pretty simple just insert an action Send an Email from ribbon

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2. To get the link of a webpart, I am assuming your webpart must be placed on some page. And designer workflow do provide us OOB properties which helps us to make URLs

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3. Get ID of the TASK. Workflows return us the ID of the current item. And you get it as below.

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Note: In screen shots 2 and 3 the lookup pop up is opened when you click the Add or change Lookup button

So this is how you get the URL and ID of a current item in a workflow. Also we can concatenate the ID in the URL as a query string based on your requirement.

I hope this helps!!

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