Workflow - Use url when creating a link in workflow steps

This may be obvious, but if you choose text instead of url in a link that you create in SharePoint Designer you can get an invalid link since the text version also includes the title

Ex: “http://mysite.mydom.com, Link Title”

In my case a link already existed in a SharePoint ListItem as a valid URL. But when added as a link in a mail the url got the trailing comma and title. Which in turn gave the webserver an invalid parameter.

The link that should have been:

…/wi.aspx?pcguid=d6d9eacb-0d67-4b19-ad62-626ab5cc1cf0&id=916

became

…/wi.aspx?pcguid=d6d9eacb-0d67-4b19-ad62-626ab5cc1cf0&id=916,%20Click%20to%20open%20the%20WorkItem%20in%20TFS

and the TFS Web did not like ID’s with comma and text…