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MartinY
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Hi community,

I have a portal that can be used either from an internal company access or from mobile devices.
On this portal I have several reports and KPI. All works great up to now.

The problem is that with one of the report which is a simple tabular report (max 10 rows with a code/description (BY fields) and values (SUM fields)) the code column (which is an alphanumeric field) is sometime converted to a clickable field (hyperlink) by Safari when I use a mobile device. This doesn't occurs with other browser such as Chrome.

Not all rows have their code converted to a clickable hyperlink by Safari, only some and it's random.

Note that this "data conversion to hyperlink" may occurs anywhere on the report from the moment that Safari finds a pattern that may refer to an hyperlink.
Normally a series of numbers. And it's not always the whole displayed string. It's sometime just part of the displayed string.
As per example a description which display : "ABC123 Company" will have the 123 as a hyperlink.

I have search the web but I've found nothing regarding this and how to stop Safari to react that way.

Thanks for any help

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BabakNYC
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What version of Safari?


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Tony A
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Google search on "meta format-detection" for clues what it might be.

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MartinY
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@Doug
From the devices that I'm testing with it's iOS 13.3

@Tony
I'll have a look at this


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Hallway
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quote:
meta format-detection


I found this on a Stack-Overflow post


Hallway

 
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MartinY
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@Hallway

I also have found it but my problem is that everything that I found is requesting to add a meta HTML tag

The report is a "regular" WebFOCUS tabular report not included in a HTMLFORM but just drag into a BIP as an element.

Run the following from Safari and it should display "CD" column as an hyperlink

DEFINE FILE GGSALES
CD /A10 = '4507891234';
END
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM DOLLARS
    BUDDOLLARS
BY HIGHEST 10 DOLLARS NOPRINT
BY PCD
BY CD

ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET LINES 999999
ON TABLE SET BYPANEL ON
ON TABLE SET HTMLEMBEDIMG ON
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     PAGESIZE='Letter',
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     LEFTMARGIN=0.0,
     RIGHTMARGIN=0.0,
     TOPMARGIN=0.0,
     BOTTOMMARGIN=0.0,
     PAGECOLOR=RGB(235 235 235),
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     BORDER=OFF,
     SIZE=10,
$
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN


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Hallway
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I don't have a crApple phone to try it on. That said, can't you just add an HTMLFORM block to it?
  
DEFINE FILE GGSALES
CD/A10 = '4507891234';
END
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM DOLLARS/D12
    BUDDOLLARS/D12
BY HIGHEST 10 DOLLARS NOPRINT
BY PCD
BY CD
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT HTMTABLE
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET LINES 999999
ON TABLE SET BYPANEL ON
ON TABLE SET HTMLEMBEDIMG ON
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     PAGESIZE='Letter',
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     LEFTMARGIN=0.0,
     RIGHTMARGIN=0.0,
     TOPMARGIN=0.0,
     BOTTOMMARGIN=0.0,
     PAGECOLOR=RGB(235 235 235),
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     BORDER=OFF,
     SIZE=10,
$
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN NOEVAL
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
    <meta name="format-detection" content="date=no">
    <meta name="format-detection" content="address=no">
    <meta name="format-detection" content="email=no">
    <title>Report</title>
</head>
<body>
    !IBI.FIL.HOLD;
</body>
</html>
-HTMLFORM END


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MartinY
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Thanks Hallway

I knew that it was going to be the solution but I was hopping not to go there.

In the same time, I have open a case and I will post the answer here if another option is available.


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MartinY
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Little update : a NFR has been open regarding this issue


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