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| Re: Hyperlinks created in xls file are invalid [message #780375 is a reply to message #778831] |
Tue, 17 January 2012 17:20   |
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Joseph,
Can you open a bugzilla entry for this? As a work around try using the
bookmark and table of contents expressions for the target. I have
created and example that works in xls and attached it. The grey
background data item has the hyperlink and the target data item is in
red and uses a bookmark and table of contents expression.
Jason
On 1/13/2012 6:00 PM, Joseph Yeh wrote:
> Hi, I have a report design that contains several tables. And I have
> created bookmarks and hyperlinks so that the user can navigate from one
> cell of a table to another cell in another table.
> This works fine for html, pdf, and doc outputs. However, for the xls
> (Excel) output, when the user clicks on the link, it says the link is
> invalid.
>
> Is this supported?
> If required, I can post a design and a data source.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph
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| Re: Hyperlinks created in xls file are invalid [message #780377 is a reply to message #778831] |
Tue, 17 January 2012 17:20 |
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Joseph,
Can you open a bugzilla entry for this? As a work around try using the
bookmark and table of contents expressions for the target. I have
created and example that works in xls and attached it. The grey
background data item has the hyperlink and the target data item is in
red and uses a bookmark and table of contents expression.
Jason
On 1/13/2012 6:00 PM, Joseph Yeh wrote:
> Hi, I have a report design that contains several tables. And I have
> created bookmarks and hyperlinks so that the user can navigate from one
> cell of a table to another cell in another table.
> This works fine for html, pdf, and doc outputs. However, for the xls
> (Excel) output, when the user clicks on the link, it says the link is
> invalid.
>
> Is this supported?
> If required, I can post a design and a data source.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph
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| Re: Hyperlinks created in xls file are invalid [message #780596 is a reply to message #780468] |
Wed, 18 January 2012 17:51 |
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Joseph,
That was an issue in the 2.6 series xls emitter. The only way I know to
work around this issue is to change the xls emitter code. The issue is
the way the range tag is generated. In 2.6 this was emitted.
<Names>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10104" ss:RefersTo="=Sheet1!R43C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10103" ss:RefersTo="=Sheet1!R25C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10102" ss:RefersTo="Sheet1!R21C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10101" ss:RefersTo="=Sheet1!R15C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10100" ss:RefersTo="=Sheet1!R9C1"/>
</Names>
Where in 3.7 this is emitted.
<Names>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10104" ss:RefersTo="Report!R43C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10103" ss:RefersTo="Report!R25C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10102" ss:RefersTo="Report!R21C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10101" ss:RefersTo="Report!R15C1"/>
<NamedRange ss:Name="mybookmark10100" ss:RefersTo="Report!R9C1"/>
</Names>
Jason
On 1/18/2012 2:29 AM, Joseph Yeh wrote:
> Hi Jason, it looks that the workaround does not work on the version of
> BIRT we are using. I tried it on BIRT 3.7.1 and it worked. In fact, we
> did use the table-of-contents workaround to make the links work for the
> DOC files on our current BIRT version. It is just the XLS file that the
> links don't work. I have also tried our design on 3.7.1 and now I can
> see the links also working in the XLS file.
>
> Now the question is, will it be possible to make the workaround work for
> XLS for our versions of BIRT?
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph
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| Re: Hyperlinks created in xls file are invalid [message #780869 is a reply to message #780620] |
Thu, 19 January 2012 18:34 |
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You could see if the 3.7 xls emitter will work in 2.6.2. The changes
appear to all be in ExcelXmlWriter.java
Version 2.6.2 code in ExcelXmlWriter.java
private void outputBookmarks( HashMap<String, BookmarkDef> bookmarkList )
{
if ( !bookmarkList.isEmpty( ) )
{
writer.openTag( "Names" );
Set<Entry<String, BookmarkDef>> bookmarkEntry = bookmarkList
.entrySet( );
for ( Entry<String, BookmarkDef> bookmark : bookmarkEntry )
defineNames( bookmark );
writer.closeTag( "Names" );
}
}
private void defineNames( Entry<String, BookmarkDef> bookmarkEntry )
{
BookmarkDef bookmark = bookmarkEntry.getValue( );
String name = bookmark.getValidName( );
String refer = getRefer( bookmark.getSheetIndex( ), bookmark );
defineName( name, refer );
}
private String getRefer( int sheetIndex, BookmarkDef bookmark )
{
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer( "=Sheet" );
sb.append( sheetIndex );
sb.append( "!R" );
sb.append( bookmark.getRowNo( ) );
sb.append( "C" );
sb.append( bookmark.getColumnNo( ) );
return sb.toString( );
}
private void defineName( String name, String refer )
{
writer.openTag( "NamedRange" );
writer.attribute( "ss:Name", name );
writer.attribute( "ss:RefersTo", refer );
writer.closeTag( "NamedRange" );
}
Version 3.7.1 code in ExcelXmlWriter.java
private void outputBookmarks( HashMap<String, BookmarkDef> bookmarkList )
{
if ( !bookmarkList.isEmpty( ) )
{
writer.openTag( "Names" );
for ( Entry<String, BookmarkDef> entry : bookmarkList.entrySet( ) )
{
BookmarkDef bookmark = entry.getValue( );
defineName( bookmark.getValidName( ), getRefer( bookmark ) );
}
writer.closeTag( "Names" );
}
}
private String getRefer( BookmarkDef bookmark )
{
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer( '=' );
buffer.append( bookmark.getSheetName( ) );
buffer.append( "!" );
int startColumn = bookmark.getStartColumn( );
int startRow = bookmark.getStartRow( );
addCellPosition( buffer, startColumn, startRow );
int endColumn = bookmark.getEndColumn( );
int endRow = bookmark.getEndRow( );
if ( endRow != -1 && endColumn != -1 && startRow != endRow
&& startColumn != endColumn )
{
buffer.append( ':' );
addCellPosition( buffer, endColumn, endRow );
}
return buffer.toString( );
}
private void defineName( String name, String refer )
{
writer.openTag( "NamedRange" );
writer.attribute( "ss:Name", name );
writer.attribute( "ss:RefersTo", refer );
writer.closeTag( "NamedRange" );
}
Jason
On 1/18/2012 2:34 PM, Joseph Yeh wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Thanks for the answers. Do you suggest that I open a bugzilla entry
> against BIRT 2.6.2 to change the xls emitter as you pointed out? Or will
> it be a small change to some code in BIRT 2.6.2 that a patch can be
> created for? Would it be possible that you send me such a patch
> including the source code? I guess there is no other way to work around
> this issue, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph
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