madhatter2002
Programmer
Has anybody tried to embed a hyperlink in a report?? Is this possible?
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hyperlink in a report
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Mike Gagnon
Programmer
madhatter2002
Since VFP's report is either previewed on screen or printed on paper, how would the hyperlink be usefull?
Mike Gagnon
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Since VFP's report is either previewed on screen or printed on paper, how would the hyperlink be usefull?
Mike Gagnon
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.
You can consider writing the report out as a pdf file.
Jim Osieczonek
Delta Business Group, LLC
Jim Osieczonek
Delta Business Group, LLC
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madhatter2002
Programmer
the reason why I want to include a hyperlink is for the purpose of converting the actual report form into a hypertext itself. I wanted to put a hyperlink that would pull out another report.
craigsboyd
IS-IT--Management
madhatter2002,
That is a pretty neat idea actually. So like a report listing customers, the customer's names would be hyperlinks in the preview window and then you could click on them and bring up a report on the customer's account information, or whatever. You aren't going to be able to accomplish this with the stock VFP report previewer... you'll probably need a third party tool like XFRX (there are many others and discussions galore on here about the different reporting tools for VFP), they have a custom preview class you could modify, or you could generate html pages with it from your reports and preview them (sort of anyways) with the webbrowser control or IE...
...mention has been made about PDF documents and you could perhaps go with that solution too, they cerrtainly would give you hyperlink ability.
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craig1442@mchsi.com
That is a pretty neat idea actually. So like a report listing customers, the customer's names would be hyperlinks in the preview window and then you could click on them and bring up a report on the customer's account information, or whatever. You aren't going to be able to accomplish this with the stock VFP report previewer... you'll probably need a third party tool like XFRX (there are many others and discussions galore on here about the different reporting tools for VFP), they have a custom preview class you could modify, or you could generate html pages with it from your reports and preview them (sort of anyways) with the webbrowser control or IE...
...mention has been made about PDF documents and you could perhaps go with that solution too, they cerrtainly would give you hyperlink ability.
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craig1442@mchsi.com
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ChrisRChamberlain
Programmer
madhatter2002
If you did run the report to a PDF by printing the report to a postscript file and then distilling it to a PDF, you would not create either an internal, (page link), or external link, (web link), within the PDF.
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If you did run the report to a PDF by printing the report to a postscript file and then distilling it to a PDF, you would not create either an internal, (page link), or external link, (web link), within the PDF.
FAQ184-2483 - the answer to getting answered.
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