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Greetings! I have a SharePoint List to manage approvals for creating documents. The documents live in a SharePoint Library and there is a hyperlink field in the List to the document. The "Item link" field in the approval flow is used for this link to the document. In the approval flow, I also want to provide a link to the SharePoint List item so that the approvers can see all of the metadata about that request. Seems like it should be pretty simple, but I've not been successful providing a hyperlink to the SharePoint List item; it either comes out as a nasty-long URL, or I get the "InvalidAttachmentName" error.

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Robu1 1,703 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi AmyWoo ,

Thank you for choosing Microsoft Community.

Approvers need two links:

Item link → the document

List item link → the SharePoint List metadata

Your issue happens because:

The list item URL is long and messy

Approval attachments cannot contain hyperlinks, so you get InvalidAttachmentName

So the link must go in Details, not Attachments.

I hope this helps resolve the issue! If you need more specific guidance, feel free to ask.

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11manish 3,333 on at

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Use Item link for the document being approved.

Put the SharePoint list item URL in the Details section (or a custom email).

If you need a richer approval experience with multiple clickable links and formatted content, consider using Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Teams instead of the

standard Approval action.

They provide much greater flexibility for displaying metadata and navigation links.

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AmyWoo 29 on at

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Thanks to both Robu1 and 11manish for responding. You were both correct. I put the link in both the Details section AND the Attachment section, something I never do so didn't even think to look there. I think I need a restart to my day.

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