[SalesForce] How to wrap record id as a link to the record while sending email

I am writing trigger to send email to task owner after task got created.In the mail i was sending recordId as a plain text.But i was trying is there any way to make the id as a link to the related record in salesforce.

the mail should be like

  Hello {task.OwnerId},

    A new {task.Id} was allocated for you.

Thanks,
User.Name.

this was a custom html mail here i am not using any html template.So i was wondering is there any way to do it in custom way like in standard html template we use {task.Link}

Best Answer

If you want a link in a text email template, you can use https://login.salesforce.com/{task.Id} (or https://test.salesforce.com/{task.Id} in a sandbox) - if the user is already logged in, this will go straight to the Task; otherwise, it will take them to the Task via the login page. It also has the benefit of avoiding a direct reference to the instance (e.g. na15.salesforce.com), which can cause problems in the long term.

If you're generating the email text from Apex, you can use URL.getSalesforceBaseUrl().toExternalForm() + '/' + task.Id to achieve the same end.

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From what I remember standard emails (= non-Visualforce ones) will give you hard time when you want to use more than one dot to go "up".

I'm aware of only 2 workarounds you have mentioned:

a helper formula field (type = URL maybe? so it's at least a bit reusable); I've created "Case Contact's Phone" etc that way in the past
craft the URL by hand using the trick described in Detail page link under email template

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I did something similar for previewing an email before it's being sent. The idea is to set up two emails in a list, one correctly and the other one not, try and send them and retrieve the generated email body in the catch statement:

Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[] previewEmails = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[]{};
Messaging.SingleEmailMessage firstPreviewEmail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
firstPreviewEmail.setUseSignature(false);
firstPreviewEmail.setSaveAsActivity(false);
firstPreviewEmail.setTemplateId(templateId);
firstPreviewEmail.setTargetObjectId(UserInfo.getUserId());
firstPreviewEmail.setWhatId(dealId);
previewEmails.add(firstPreviewEmail);
Messaging.SingleEmailMessage secondPreviewEmail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
previewEmails.add(secondPreviewEmail);
try {
    List<Messaging.SendEmailResult> previewResult = Messaging.sendEmail(previewEmails);
}
catch (Exception e) {
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}

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