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Mike Williams
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Fairly frustrated by this one, from a search in the Focal Point forums I'm guessing this isn't possible, but thought I'd take a shot in the dark.

I am attempting to use a defined field to create a link in a column and elements of the link are being filled in by other columns. The link unfortunately contains an & and I can't quite seem to achieve this in Excel:

My defined field is very close to Francis' example in this thread :

  

DEFINE FILE CAR
COUNTRY_LINK/A200 = '<a href="http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&|output=search&|q=' || COUNTRY | '" target=win_google>' | COUNTRY | '</>';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY COUNTRY_LINK AS COUNTRY
END


When I make my output Excel I basically just get the full url in the column as a string instead of a hyperlink. Any suggestions are very welcomed.

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Posts: 45 | Registered: October 07, 2015Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Mike, try the code below. There seem to be no documentation for SET HTMLFORMTYPE=XLS.

-* File fp_mike_williams1.fex
DEFINE FILE CAR
COUNTRY_LINK/A200 = '<a href="http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&|output=search&|q=' || COUNTRY | '" target=win_google>' | COUNTRY | '</>';
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY COUNTRY_LINK AS COUNTRY

ON TABLE HOLD AS H001 FORMAT HTMTABLE
END
-RUN

SET HTMLFORMTYPE=XLS
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
!IBI.FIL.H001;
-HTMLFORM END


Francis


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Mike Williams
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Really appreciate the input, it's an excellent approach in order to maintain the links.

Unfortunately, it appears the security setup on my end is preventing the file from coming through properly, I'm ending up with a file with no extension that when viewed via a text editor contains the table & information from the .fex.

Francis, thanks again for taking the time in offering a method to accomplish this requirement.

Marking this [Solved] as this would normally work, but the issue is on my side.


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Francis Mariani
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Mike, is it possible that the issue is not necessarily security, but the redirection settings in site.wfs, accessible via the Client Admin Console?


Francis


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