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Deep Hyperlink in Form is not executed yet?

  • August 20, 2026
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Robin Liu
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Hi,

I wanted to know if it is still the case as mentioned in Harm’s post that while deep hyperlinks to process flows work in Grid, they do not work in Forms. I have tried it myself and it only works in form if I hold CTRL and click it, but then it also opens a new tab. (Universal GUI  2026.2.12.0.0 )

He created a TCP ticket. What is the status of this?

We are using it to replace the “open folder” functionality. By changing the browser policy we have made it possible to open links to folders in your file explorer. So, we are close to recreating the folder link exactly as before. The only thing left is that deep hyperlinks do not seem to work in Forms. So then users would have to change to using a task button.

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D
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Hi Robin,

I checked the status of ticket 10221I, and unfortunately, it has not been resolved yet. At the moment, I don’t have an estimated timeline for when it will be picked up.

Regards,
Dick van den Brink

Robin Liu
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  • August 20, 2026

​@Dick van den Brink 
Okay, thank you for checking for me!

Once this has been picked up, it could be a viable solution to replace the open folder functionality that was available in Windows

It kind of already is a working alternative, but we are one step from making it exactly the same if it were clickable in the Form. So for now we would have to use a task instead.


Our solution uses  a custom Windows protocol, vrrfolder://, which is registered on the client PC and handled by a small PowerShell script that converts the URL into a UNC path and opens it in Windows Explorer. The Thinkwise applciation only needs to generate or open the vrrfolder://... link, while browser policy can allow that protocol to launch without requiring the Thinkwise site to be placed in the Local Intranet security zone.

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