Dynamic string in designer workflow.

Hi,
I have creted form library A and one sharepoint list B with email id, name and company name details.
I want to develop a workflow to send an email to users who are in List B with a link.
Before sending an email to user, workflow should verify that if there is any item in "Library A" with the name(company name+User name from List B values) or not.
If there is an item in Library A, then the workflow should send existing item link to that particular user to update the item if not it should send a link to create new report in Library A and the workflow should send emails every week until the
item's status changes to "Completed".
Here my question is, how to create dynamic links in designer.Is it accomplishable using sharepoint designer? Client does want custom coding solutions.
ANy help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
AA.

Hi
Firstly few things to consider -
SharePoint workflow are assigned to single item based on create or on modified events of list items
iterating through list library is not supported by OOTB
Even if we manage to iterate through list items, it would cause issues when there are too many items in the list
For creating links you can use workflow variables in SharePoint designer, we normally use current item url from workflow context -
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/send-e-mail-in-a-workflow-HA010239042.aspx
some reference for Looping to start with -
http://sharepointgypsy.blogspot.com/2011/11/create-for-each-loop-for-workflows.html
http://brianscodingexamples.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/create-while-loop-within-workflow-in-sharepoint-designer-2010/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/a9c6ab96-3b7f-428e-be5d-c2323e95cfe4/loop-through-sharepoint-list-having-more-than-100-items-using-ootb-sharepoint-desinger-2010-workflow
Hope this helps!
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