SharePoint: Workflows - Emailing hyperlink of list item.

I have a custom SharePoint (2013) list to manage tasks assigned to personnel and keep track of their statuses. I've created a workflow using SP Designer to send out an email to whom the task is assigned on the date for which it's due.
The workflow is working properly and email alerts are being sent, except for one thing. Inside the email body is a hyperlink to the associated record which the recipient clicks on to view (only view, not edit) the task details.
I got the record's hyperlink by accessing it's display form and copying the URL from the browser, pasting it into the email body. The URL's format looks something like this:
http://zeroshiki/sites/SP2010-Main-Site/Lists/Announcements/DispForm.aspx?ID=2&ContentTypeId=0x0104000933421F36DFF740B428FEC15871B493
Then I modified the URL by formulating a lookup to include the ID of the Current Item. In other words, the ID specified in the URL isn't fixed; it's based on the associated list item.
I've confirmed that when the recipient recieves an email, the ID in the URL matches the record's ID on the site. However, when they click on the link and are redirected to the record's display page, there's no data displayed. The fields are visible but the
values are not. Then I noticed that the URL in the browser does not match the one in the email; it's missing an ID value.
So when the URL in the email is ...DispForm.aspx?ID=2&ContentTypeId... it changes to ...DispForm.aspx?ID=&ContentTypeID...
Why does this happen? This method may seem strange to use, but I've tried looking up the "Encoded Absolute URL" and I get an error stating that the return type of the lookup is invalid. That's why I manually copied the URL format and formulated
the record ID.
Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a more straight-forward approach to retrieving the record's URL?

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to send email with hyperlink.
In order to solve the problem more efficiently I need to clarify some information.
Did the hyperlink is the current item URL?
How did you set the hyperlink?
Per my knowledge, the "Encoded Absolute URL" result is https://sitename/Lists/listname/Id_.000
To get the current item URL, I recommend to we can use [%Workflow Context:Current Item URL%] with SharePoint Workflow 2010 platform,
Here is a similar thread for you to take a look at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7dd2d0cb-97ff-4d9f-9c43-57109bb6bb3d/send-email-of-created-item-to-all-the-staff?forum=sharepointcust
Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards,
Linda Li
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