In this article, we will review how column hyperlink may be implemented. The example described below is available live on Arnica Software demo site at the following URL: http://www.arnicasoftware.com/demo/arnica-webreport-report-with-drill-down-to-another-report/1506/index.aspx:
To implement this example, we need two reports: 1) customer list, 2) customer orders per selected customer. The parent report (customer list) has column CustomerID configured as a hyperlink, which invokes child report (customer orders) and passes the value of CustomerID. The child report applies this value as a filter by customer and displays the list of orders for the selected customer.
Below is a screenshot displaying how the column hyperlink is configured to redirect from current report to a report with order details, passing customer identifier from the selected record:
The hyperlink is configured to execute HTTP redirect to a URL specified by the property Request Target. The value of CustomerID is passed via URL using evaluatable expression:
CustomerID=<%rtrim(SourceData.CustomerID)%>
Child report reads parameter passed from the parent report and applies its value to construct a query filter:
Here is a screenshot from the filter properties page of the filter selected above:
Other hyperlink actions, which may be configured on server side, are described by the options of the Request Type field:
- Saved content - evaluate active content saved in the Request Data property and display result
- File - access file on the server, read its content and display
- HTTP redirect - perform redirect to a URL specified by Request Target property
- Web request - execute web request against any web resource on server side, get response and relay response content in user browser
- Script - execute program script or SQL query on server side, and display result
Hyperlink may be configured to open new window or perform action within the same browser window, optionally show custom confirmation message, dynamically apply unique style to hyperlink presentation in each row, including conditionally suppressing the hyperlink itself for rows that match dynamic style expression, etc.
Other examples of reports with hyperlinked column values may be explored from Arnica Software demo site: