How to have a link appear to submit a task

RE: How to have a link appear to submit a task

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:00:03 GMT

I don't disagree. For safeLinks, i'm unsure whether it's technically feasible, but it seems to me that other link types (record link, report link, etc), it should be possible. They might be hesitant, i suppose, since the usage would be unclear except in very specific "edge-y" use cases like this one.

RE: How to have a link appear to submit a task

Jacob Edelman — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:53:35 GMT

We really need a product enhancement to allow links to do saveInto....

RE: How to have a link appear to submit a task

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:34:11 GMT

Yeah - you'll need to do this in more than one click, no matter how you slice it. Once you get past that, there are a variety of possibilities. The one I'd consider first is, from the persistent task, have a submit link saying along the lines of "dismiss and view Record", which takes the user (via chaining) to a subsequent task with no submit button but with a recordlink. That task will not appear on their task list (via quick task designation) and will time out after a few minutes (it really doesn't matter how quickly).

Then again, it might just be slightly easier to have your original task have one link/button to dismiss the task, and a secondary link to the record (consider using a safeLink to open the record in a new tab, to allow the user more easily to go back to the task and also click dismiss).