Redirecting to the Home Page when clicking on close button of the Item in a list

Question

Hi all,
I have a SPD Workflow configured in a site to show a link to the current item view form from the autogenerated mail, so that when a user clicks on the link , it gets redirected to the list item as a Viewform.aspx. on closing t hat the user will be redirected
to the list and shown the allitems.aspc view of the list. But the user now wants to redirect to the Home page of the site. I have created and deployed the SPD WF using Designer 2010 and deployed to the production. But Now I am fearing that to achieve
this requirement do I need to change the entire approach of SPD Workflow? If anyone has pointers please share with me.
Thanks,
K.V.N.PAVAN

Answer 1

No, I said to set the Source parameter of the URL to the home page.  You have to do this in order for the browser to know where to send the user upon closing or updating the item.  This is how all redirects work in SharePoint.  If you go browse
around and click on an item, you will see a Source parameter in the address bar.  The URL that comes after "&Source=" is the URL your browser will be sent to after you click "close."  This is how SharePoint remembers the context of where you
were.  If you don't provide a Source parameter, then it defaults to the list where the item lives.  That's what you're currently doing, so you need to add a Source parameter to the URL you provide in the workflow email.
http://sitename/list/DispForm.aspx?ID=[Current item: ID]&Source=http://sitename
Something like that.
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