Workaround to Workflow Notification View/Edit Link Doesn’t Work on Outlook 365 Online

Microsoft Dynamics GPThe other day I posted about a problem with the online version of Outlook in Office 365 stripping the View/Edit link from the Workflow notification emails. This was confirmed as a bug with the online version of Office 365 with a recommendation from Microsoft Dynamics GP Support to raise a call with the Office 365 team.

That’s going to be a long term solution to the problem, where the client would much rather have a fix in the short term.

Well, no fix in the short term, but I realised there was probably a very simple workaround to the problem.

I constructed a custom link on the Email Message which has the same query string as the normal drill down link, but I replaced the dgpp and server parts of the link with a link to a custom page on my website (see selected section):

Message Setup

<a href='https://www.azurecurve.co.uk/mdgp.php?Db=GP&Srv=SERVER&Cmp=IDEAL&Prod=0&Act=OPEN&Func=OpenReqInq&sReqID={%Requisition Number%}&bHistory=0'<{%Requisition Number%}</a>

The PHP webpage I created is configured to do a redirect to the dgpp drill down link used by Microsoft Dynamics GP and append the query string from the email hyperlink:

<?php
	header('Location: dgpp://DGPB/?' . $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"], true, $statusCode);
?>

When I tested this on my demo environment it worked perfectly. I then passed it across to the client and they are currently testing.

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