Take a workflow variable and copy it to the user's clipboard

Question

I'm looking for the means to have a workflow take a variable and copy it to the user's clipboard. Is this possible?
Cheers,
Mark
SharePoint 2013 Online
Learning SharePoint

Answer 1

Hi Mark,
From your description, you have used workflow to copy the URL into a column.
Then I recommend to use JSLINK to add a button to the list view and copy the URL from the column to the clipboard when clicking the button.
Here is the code for the js file and please use it in Internet Explorer(the code only works in IE):
(function () {
var overrideCtx = {};
overrideCtx.Templates = {};
overrideCtx.Templates.Fields = {
'URLColumn': { 'View' : CopyButton }//change the column to the internal name of the column which you copy the URL to.
SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides(overrideCtx);
function CopyButton(ctx){
var value =ctx.CurrentItem["URLColumn"]
var html="";
if(value!="")
{var html= "<div><span id='copytext'>"+value+"</span><button type='button' onclick='copy();'>Copy</button></div>";
return html;
function copy(ctx){
if (window.clipboardData && clipboardData.setData)
var s=document.getElementById("copytext").innerText;
clipboardData.setData("Text", s);
After writing the js file, you need to upload the file to SharePoint and then refer to it in the list view web part.
http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2012/08/03/sharepoint-2013-using-js-link-to-add-javascript-to-listviewdataview-webpart/
Best regards.
Thanks
Victoria Xia
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