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Creating dynamic PDF internal links [message #1778210] Tue, 12 December 2017 01:36 Go to next message
Jaguar M is currently offline Jaguar MFriend
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I am trying to create a PDF in BIRT and I need to have bookmarks linking from a summary page to each detail page. The links work fine in the HTML preview and a similar http link works in published PDFs. However, the internal links do not work in the PDF format.

What I have tried so far is setting the bookmark property to "detail_" + row["nodeid"] and setting the hyperlink to the same. As stated, this works for the HTML preview, but not the PDF export.

The PDF has automatically generated TOC items that I would prefer to leverage off, but I don't know how to link to those.

Is there a way that I can get the PDF output to contain the required links using either bookmark properties, or the generated TOC items?

Sample PDF output (Customer data removed, alternate locations selected) is attached

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Re: Creating dynamic PDF internal links [message #1778310 is a reply to message #1778210] Wed, 13 December 2017 00:48 Go to previous message
Jaguar M is currently offline Jaguar MFriend
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The solution to the problem lies not in the format of the bookmark/hyperlink, but in the placement of the bookmark.

The problem was, I was placing the bookmark on the row of the table I wanted to link to. Instead, the bookmark needed to be on the label in the first column of the row.

I believe the issue is that, in the HTML version, the table row is a <tr> tag, however in the PDF, the row doesn't physically exist, so there's nothing to set the bookmark on. However the label/text item exists in both versions, so the bookmark is created correctly.

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