# Portal 2 - Open specific work order from portal in ifs 9

**URL:** <https://forum.novacura.com/t/portal-2-open-specific-work-order-from-portal-in-ifs-9/877>\
**Category:** Flow Classic\
**Tags:** portal\
**Created:** [February 18, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/portal-2-open-specific-work-order-from-portal-in-ifs-9/877 "2025-02-18T10:29:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikolo01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7C9FD7/32.png) [@vikolo01](https://forum.novacura.com/u/vikolo01)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/portal-2-open-specific-work-order-from-portal-in-ifs-9/877/1 "2025-02-18T10:29:33Z")

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Hi!

I want to select a work order from a selected row in a portal table and then be able to open that work order via a link to IFS9. Has anyone done something similar?

Best regards

Viktor

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**Author:** ![Alluse](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.novacura.com/alluse/32/1013_2.png) [@Alluse](https://forum.novacura.com/u/Alluse)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/portal-2-open-specific-work-order-from-portal-in-ifs-9/877/2 "2025-02-19T06:07:07Z")

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Hi,

I can only comment on the Flow part, haven’t launched a specific WO in IFS EE via link myself. But if you are able to open a specific Work Order in IFS 9 EE via an URL, then there’s no problem. Within the datasource Flow you can generate the URLs and put them in a column in your work order table.Then change the column type to “Link”.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/novacuratalk/original/1X/924c08c3d255279a04de4c8d61bd835563a34116.png)

Maybe you have a specific requirement to open IFS to manage the Work Order. But more commonly you would manage the WO from the Portal or launch a user workflow via a button to execute the WO actions required. Which in most cases are much more efficient and streamlined for the user.

Anyhow, a quick search on creating a IFS EE URL led me to this post in the IFS community: [Capability to open IFS Applications Software via URL | IFS Community](https://community.ifs.com/getting-started-with-ifs-132/capability-to-open-ifs-applications-software-via-url-47297)

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**Author:** ![vikolo01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7C9FD7/32.png) [@vikolo01](https://forum.novacura.com/u/vikolo01)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/portal-2-open-specific-work-order-from-portal-in-ifs-9/877/3 "2025-02-19T08:20:51Z")

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Thanks for the quick answer. I’ll look into it.

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**Author:** ![vikolo01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7C9FD7/32.png) [@vikolo01](https://forum.novacura.com/u/vikolo01)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/portal-2-open-specific-work-order-from-portal-in-ifs-9/877/4 "2025-03-06T20:18:36Z")

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Hello again!

I was wondering if there is a feature to present links better. I don’t want to see the entire URL but rather a short text like “Show WO” or something similar. I checked the Help section and found this:

“Link: will display the content as a clickable link. **Check the box Pretty link to show the link not as the URL value but as either a text or a column value**.” This sounds exactly like what I want. However, I can’t see the option?

Is there another way to display it as a hyperlink instead? I’ve tried HTML but haven’t been able to get it to work.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/novacuratalk/original/1X/7f96cdf8175adcc3b10f4bba22a65bceabb3b608.png)

/ Viktor