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blakeeno
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I'm using a DEFINE to hide a hyperlink behind a field. And when I output this to excel, nothing shows up. Excel says there is something wrong with the content. Outputting to HTML works just fine. I've tried EXL07 and XLSX formats, and neither works. I have gone back to trying EXL2K with some success. My field and it's link does show up but it attaches %25 to the end of every link. Any ideas out there? Below is some very simple code I'm using for testing:
 
DEFINE FILE CSPRDNU_NBO_ADM_CPP_VW
YOURID/A200 = '<a href="https://csprdnu.nebraska.edu/psp/csprdnu/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/PROCESS_APPLICATIONS.ADM_APPL_MAINTNCE.GBL?EMPLID=' || EMPLID | '" >' | EMPLID | '</>';

END

TABLE FILE CSPRDNU_NBO_ADM_CPP_VW
PRINT
YOURID
WHERE INSTITUTION EQ 'NEUNO';
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 10;
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL07
END

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Alan B
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You are trying to put HTML code into an Excel spreadsheet. Use the inbuilt drill down to URL with parameters and then this should work.


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blakeeno
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Thanks for replying Alan. I don't suppose you have any good examples of how to do this do you? Or maybe some good resources? I'm new to all this if you couldn't tell. Thanks!


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Francis Mariani
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TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY COUNTRY

ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL07

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=COUNTRY, URL='https://duckduckgo.com/?' (q=COUNTRY), TARGET=_blank, $
ENDSTYLE
END


Francis


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blakeeno
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Thanks, Francis. Everything is now working.


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Amar4Webfocus
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Hi Francis,

thanks for the info, i have similar issue.

we have different hyperlinks for each row in excel and instead of showing entire URL, we want to show it in some Text like Download.

Our output default is HTML & user has a option to see the same data on Excel, but Hyperlink is not working in Excel, it works in HTML . Can you please provide solutions which will be great help for me.



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Originally posted by Francis Mariani:
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY COUNTRY

ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL07

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=COUNTRY, URL='https://duckduckgo.com/?' (q=COUNTRY), TARGET=_blank, $
ENDSTYLE
END


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FP Mod Chuck
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Amar4Webfocus

First of all welcome to Focal Point! It is a great forum for getting answers to your development questions.

Francis hasn't posted anything in a while. Can you please post your code so we can try to reproduce it. To post code it must be in between the code tag the last icon on the end of the toolbar.


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Amar4Webfocus
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TEST1/A650V=' DOWNLOAD ' ;

this is for HTML

DOWNLOAD_FILE : URL is coming from the database table.URL is storing in the download_file to the appropriate data.

can u please help me in writing the same for excel please


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FP Mod Chuck
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Amar4WebFocus

This code should do what you need. I did it from App Studio and selected the TEST1 field and created a Hyperlink with the option URL from a Field.


DEFINE FILE CAR
URL_FIELD/A650='http://www.google.com';
TEST1/A10='DOWNLOAD';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
URL_FIELD NOPRINT
TEST1
BY CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XLSX
ON TABLE SET XLSXPAGESETS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N3,
URL=(URL_FIELD),
$
ENDSTYLE
END

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