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susannah
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&| doesn't work.
I've got a link to an external site, and that link has an & in it.
so,
TYPE=DATA,URL=.....
doesn't work.
Piping the & doesn't work
creating another &var with the whole url in it, piped or not, doesn't work.
Putting an entire anchor tag is a heading doesn't work, (looks at the left_anchor a and expects to skip some lines Smiler )

Syntax wizards... help!

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capples
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&| worked for me. Here's the style code I used to have column N1 data produce the hyperlink:
TYPE=DATA,
     COLUMN=N1,
     URL=http://test&|.com,
          TARGET='_blank',
$


Produces http://test&.com


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susannah
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hello capples....thanks for giving it a go...

the & are in parms, actually. so they follow the url location , etc.

I got it to work by using a redirect
and I discovered something I didn't know...
-DEFAULT &myparm = &myparm ;
as nuts as that sounds, its very helpful at the top of the fex, where you're going to use &myparm as a parm in a link.
Allows the redirect to work,
but still can't get a URL= to work.



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Waz
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If all else fails, just stick it in a define/compute field and reference that in the URL in the stylesheet


Waz...

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David Briars
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We use the WF StyleSheet URL parm to create links to external websites, though we perhaps more often create HTML anchor tags in DEFINE/COMPUTEs.

Here is an WF StyleSheet URL example, with parms to be passed, and one of the parm values is an amper with a '&':
-DEFAULTH &PARM2 = 'AT&T'
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
 TYPE=DATA,
  COLUMN=CAR,
  URL=http://httpbin.org/response-headers?( \
   PARM1='Time Warner' \
   PARM2='&PARM2' \
   PARMCAR=CAR \
  ),
$
ENDSTYLE
END

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susannah
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thanks everybody
I'm not passing a parm
I'm passing an &
(not going to wf, going to BO)
funny, Jeff Shein gave me the exact same example..
the key in his example was
-DEFAULTH &someparm = &someparm ;
[which , interstingly enuf, obviated the prompting.]
I got it to work with a redirect



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