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Difference between ${URI} and ${URI_REF}- # Difference between ${URI} and ${URI_REF}

September 6, 2018 [email ](/tags/email/)[servicenow](/tags/servicenow/)

  Enable AI AnimationAll this talk about notifications had me poking around and I learned about using `${URI_REF}` instead of `${URI}`. It’s magical.

`${URI_REF}` creates a link to the current record using the records display value. It’s essentially… the same as;

`var link = 'https://';
link += gs.getProperty('instance_name');
link += '.service-now.com/';
link += current.getLink();
var display = current.getDisplayValue()
template.print('<a href="' + url + '">' + display + '</a>');`
- `${URI}` creates a link to the current record using the text “Link”.

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