$link URL Encoding?

Discussion & Help
#1

I’ve noticed that when using $link in AppleScript, the entire URL is encoded, and not each individual component on the query string. This has the undesirable effect of encoding the “&” that separate query parameters. This is breaking links in my particular use case, saving a link to an O365 webmail message link in the note of an OmniFocus task while using “Hook to New OmniFocus.”

What I’m seeing:
https://outlook.office.com/owa/?ItemID=...%26viewmodel=ReadMessageItem%26path=%26exvsurl=1

What I’m expecting:
https://outlook.office.com/owa/?ItemID=…&viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&path=&exvsurl=1

Is this the expected behavior is there another way I should be approaching this? The hook itself works fine (without encoding), just the link written to the OmniFocus note is broken. Thanks in advance!

#2

To help anyone that stumbles across this in the future, I solved this by using $user_link instead of $link. Here’s a modified version of the OmniFocus New Item AppleScript with working links in the note section:

tell application "OmniFocus"
	activate
	tell first document
		-- remove extraneous text from URL
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"$$$"}
		
		-- Use $user_link instead of $link to avoid URL encoding
		-- set srcURL to text item 1 of "$link"
		set srcURL to text item 1 of "$user_link"
		
		-- Create a new task and note
		set myTask to make new inbox task with properties {name:"$title", note:"$title"}
		
		-- hyperlink-ify the note
		set value of attribute named "link" of style of paragraph 1 of note of myTask to srcURL
		
		set taskID to "omnifocus:///task/" & (id of myTask)
		
		-- open task
		GetURL taskID
		
		-- return URL of task for Hook to link with source item
		get taskID
	end tell
end tell

As an aside, is there a list of Hook $ variables available somewhere?