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Disable drill through actions in PDF format [message #768092]

Mon, 19 December 2011 10:09

Eclipse User

Hi,

I implemented a custom IHTMLActionHandler to manage drill-through exactly with my requirements.
But i would need to enable drill through hyperlinks only when format is HTML.

For instance, i tried when format is PDF to return an empty string in IHTMLActionHandler.getURL(IAction actionDefn, Object context), but it didn't work: the render task replaced the empty string by a default baseURl and keeps displaying hyperlinks.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Re: Disable drill through actions in PDF format [message #768314 is a reply to message #768092]

Mon, 19 December 2011 17:33

Eclipse User

I do not see an easy way of doing this without changing the pdf emitter
code.

You could try putting in something like:
protected String buildDrillAction( IAction action, Object context )
{
String baseURL = null;
if ( context != null )
{
if ( context instanceof HTMLRenderContext )
{
baseURL = ( (HTMLRenderContext) context ).getBaseURL( );
}
if ( context instanceof PDFRenderContext )
{
return "javascript:void(0);";
}
..
..
..
..

But this most likely will show the user an error.

Jason

On 12/19/2011 10:09 AM, dpardon wrote:
> Hi,
> I implemented a custom IHTMLActionHandler to manage drill-through
> exactly with my requirements. But i would need to enable drill through
> hyperlinks only when format is HTML.
> For instance, i tried when format is PDF to return an empty string in
> IHTMLActionHandler.getURL(IAction actionDefn, Object context), but it
> didn't work: the render task replaced the empty string by a default
> baseURl and keeps displaying hyperlinks.
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks!

Re: Disable drill through actions in PDF format [message #768549 is a reply to message #768314]

Tue, 20 December 2011 05:48

Eclipse User

Thanks Jason,

indeed that's much better: with javascript:void(0), at least Adobe or Excel won't try to open a browser if a user click on hyperlinks. Moreover, on mouseover on these links, users now won't see a a huge URL, but just a small javascript tooltip. So i will let it like that, though it's still not ideal: for PDF it's ok, but for example in Excel it may confuse users when they try to select cells range in a crosstab, as shown in screen below it displays a security warning and tries to download a file named void(0):

index.php/fa/6505/0/

I will try to have a look on emitters code to see if it could be conceivable to disable hyperlinks when needed

Dom

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