&| 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 )

Syntax wizards... help!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Emily McAllister>,

&| 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

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.

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

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 

This message has been edited. Last edited by: David Briars,

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