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johney
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Hi All,

I have a report which has a hyperlink embedded in the body and I made style command 
-SET &VURL='http://www.yahoo.com';
JAVASCRIPT=show_url('&VURL'),$.

My show_url has the code like,
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
function show_url(url)
{
alert(url);
window.open(url);
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
</HTML>
-HTMLFORM END


It is opening the url correctly, if I run the FEX from reporting server.If I try to schedule the same report in report caster the output I received thru mail still have the hyper link . If I click on the link it is not opening the specified url.The reason also I found out as;
the report is not able to carry the javascript function to the mail server.

Any idea , how to solve this?

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johney
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Hi All,

I tried using the window.open directly as below,

  
-SET &VURL='http://www.yahoo.com';
JAVASCRIPT=window.open('&VURL'),$


It is now opening the link even in the mail attachment, but opening one extra window with [object] as the only content.

Any idea, how to hide this window?

Regards,
Johney.


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johney
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Hi All,

I solved the issue by using location.href as below.

OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
TARGET='_blank',
JAVASCRIPT=location.href('&VURL') ,$

Regards,
Johney.


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johney
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Hi All,

I still face some issues like , if the report caster send the report content as inline message to a outlook mail address , I am not able to open the url. If report caster send the mail as an attachment the url is opening.

So I tried another method as ,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
TARGET='_blank',
URL=&VURL,$


It is opening in both inline and attachment but, here the issue is like , if the url contain a '&' then the report will fail becasue it will expect a value here as a variable.

Suppose our VURL has a value as ,
  'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=johney&btnG=Google+Search'



and I made this as (ampersand escaped) 
'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en%26q=johney%26btnG=Google+Search'


still it is not working.

Any suggestions?


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susannah
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for focus, the pipe character works well to escape the &
eg
& nbsp;
(ignore the blank space between the & and the nbsp) should be written 
&|nbsp;

any help?



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johney
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Susannah,

I have solved the problem by escaping & = { } characters using.
-SET &VURL = STRREP(&VURL.LENGTH, &VURL, 4, '&', 1, '%26', &VURL.LENGTH, 'A&VURL.LENGTH');
-SET &VURL = STRREP(&VURL.LENGTH, &VURL, 4, '=', 1, '%3D', &VURL.LENGTH, 'A&VURL.LENGTH');
-SET &VURL = STRREP(&VURL.LENGTH, &VURL, 4, '{', 1, '%7B', &VURL.LENGTH, 'A&VURL.LENGTH');
-SET &VURL = STRREP(&VURL.LENGTH, &VURL, 4, '}', 1, '%7D', &VURL.LENGTH, 'A&VURL.LENGTH');

Thanks for your suggestion(I am yet to test that).

Regards,
Johney.


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johney
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Hi All,

Anybody has a clue for my first question(refer the first one in this chain please)?
Why a javascript function enclosed inside the FEX is not visible, when report caster send the output to an email server? I have written my show_url function inside HEAD tag and as far as I know a javascript function written in HEAD tag should be passed without any issues.

Regards,
Johney.


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Output: Excel, HTML, PDF
 
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susannah
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but Outlook is not a browser.. a mantra ...
so, when including links in pages that I email , i make sure no js is involved , ie only the first drilldown choice in a multidrill will work; drill-ups to controlled new windows wont work, so for email i just make my drill-ups into ordinary drilldowns with target=new.
Perhaps there is a way, and someone smarter will come along and show us both.



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