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Wed, 18 May 2005 12:18

Eclipse User

say I render a report that contains multiple tables of data and one
column might be names and I want to be able to click on name to have it
take me to another rendered area of the report, or even another report
altogether.

how might this be accomplished, support in 2.0?

Re: Hyperlink support [message #38340 is a reply to message #38207]

Wed, 18 May 2005 15:16

Eclipse User

You use Bookmark for links to areas in the same report; you use
drillthrough links to other reports. Bookmark support is in R1;
Drillthrough links are also working for normal cases. See the ROM spec for
detail.

Stanley Wang
BIRT Lead

Re: Hyperlink support [message #38406 is a reply to message #38207]

Wed, 18 May 2005 16:13

Eclipse User

Mike,

The ROM specs envision a "bookmark" on each report item. The "action"
(hyperlink) property would be extended to target a bookmark within the same
report or another report. There is some implementation "magic" required when
BIRT supports multiple-page reports.

There is no support for this in Release 1, but it is on the wish-list for a
future release.

- Paul

Paul Rogers
BIRT PMC

"Mike Boyersmith" <mjboyers@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:d6fpub$8vp$1@news.eclipse.org...
> say I render a report that contains multiple tables of data and one column
> might be names and I want to be able to click on name to have it take me
> to another rendered area of the report, or even another report altogether.
>
> how might this be accomplished, support in 2.0?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Hyperlink support [message #38501 is a reply to message #38406]

Wed, 18 May 2005 17:14

Eclipse User

Thanks to both you guys for replies, a quick clarification

Do you mean there is no support at all in version 1 for the feature you
guys describe or just no support for multiple report and element hyper
linking?

> Mike,
>
> The ROM specs envision a "bookmark" on each report item. The "action"
> (hyperlink) property would be extended to target a bookmark within the same
> report or another report. There is some implementation "magic" required when
> BIRT supports multiple-page reports.
>
> There is no support for this in Release 1, but it is on the wish-list for a
> future release.
>
> - Paul
>
> Paul Rogers
> BIRT PMC
>
> "Mike Boyersmith" <mjboyers@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
> news:d6fpub$8vp$1@news.eclipse.org...
>
>>say I render a report that contains multiple tables of data and one column
>>might be names and I want to be able to click on name to have it take me
>>to another rendered area of the report, or even another report altogether.
>>
>>how might this be accomplished, support in 2.0?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

Re: Hyperlink support -- can't find info on Bookmarks [message #39427 is a reply to message #38340]

Mon, 23 May 2005 19:04

Eclipse User

Hi Stanley!

I did a search for 'Bookmark' and 'Bookmarks' in the ROM spec at

http://www.eclipse.org/birt/ref/ROM_Scripting_SPEC.pdf

and the search didn't find anything... am I looking at the wrong spec?

Stanley Wang wrote:
> You use Bookmark for links to areas in the same report; you use
> drillthrough links to other reports. Bookmark support is in R1;
> Drillthrough links are also working for normal cases. See the ROM spec
> for detail.
> Stanley Wang
> BIRT Lead
>

Re: Hyperlink support -- can't find info on Bookmarks [message #40569 is a reply to message #39427]

Tue, 24 May 2005 18:35

Eclipse User

Mike,

Hmmm... The bookmark property should be in the spec. However, it has not yet
been implemented. The idea is that "bookmark" is an expression that
evaluates to a string. The string provides an "anchor" position within the
report. In a simple HTML report, it would translate to an <a
name="yourExpr">...</a> tag.

Try the new on-line ROM documentation.

http://www.eclipse.org/birt/ref/rom/index.html

Scroll to the bottom to find the Property Index. The index shows that the
bookmark property is defined on ReportItem and Row. The bookmark property
info that was previously in the ROM specs has moved into this on-line ROM
documentation.

Then, check out the action property on Data, Label and Image for information
about how the bookmark will be used.

- Paul

Paul Rogers
BIRT PMC

"Mike Boyersmith" <mjboyers@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:d6tnn9$at$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Hi Stanley!
>
> I did a search for 'Bookmark' and 'Bookmarks' in the ROM spec at
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/birt/ref/ROM_Scripting_SPEC.pdf
>
> and the search didn't find anything... am I looking at the wrong spec?
>
>
>
> Stanley Wang wrote:
>> You use Bookmark for links to areas in the same report; you use
>> drillthrough links to other reports. Bookmark support is in R1;
>> Drillthrough links are also working for normal cases. See the ROM spec
>> for detail.
>> Stanley Wang
>> BIRT Lead
>>

Re: Hyperlink support [message #40993 is a reply to message #38501]

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:42

Eclipse User

Bookmark is not supported in R1.

Linking to another report, however, can be worked out. You can set the
hyperlink property to an expression that evaluates to a URL that points to
another report.

Stanley Wang
BIRT Engine

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