This topic discusses the Web links that you can add to paper-based reports that will become active when you generate your report to an HTML file and display it in a Web browser.
In most cases, you can define Web links in an object's Property Inspector.
You can specify column and field names in the link value to create dynamic links
at runtime. If you require more complex implementation of Web links, such as
conditional settings, you must specify the link using PL/SQL and the Reports
Builder built-in packaged procedure SRW.SET_ATTR
.
Reports output in HTML format can include the following types of Web links:
A link from an object to another object within the same report, or to another HTML or PDF document (a hyperlink).
An identifier for the destination of a Web link (a hyperlink destination). The destination can be any printable object (field, boilerplate, frame, and so on) in your report layout.
A string in a frame of the master HTML document that links to an associated object (a bookmark). You can associate a bookmark with any printable object (field, boilerplate, frame, and so on) in your report layout. In the formatted report, you can click a bookmark to display the associated object at the top of the window.
URLs that specify image resources. The URLs must be available to your Web server so that the images can be located when the HTML output is displayed by the server.
Additionally, your report can include the following headers and footers that use escapes to add HTML tags to your paper-based report:
A document header (a before report escape) for placing a logo or some standard links at the beginning of an HTML document.
A document footer (an after report escape) for placing a logo or some standard links at the end of an HTML document.
A page header (a before page escape) for placing a logo or some standard links at the beginning of one page or all pages in an HTML document.
A page footer (an after page escape) for placing a logo or some standard links at the end of one page or all pages in an HTML document.
A Parameter Form header (a before form escape) for placing a logo or some standard links in the header of the HTML Parameter Form.
A Parameter Form footer (an after form escape) for placing a logo or some standard links in the footer of the HTML Parameter Form.
About Web links for PDF output
Creating a hyperlink using the Property Inspector
Creating a hyperlink using PL/SQL
Creating a hyperlink destination using the Property Inspector
Creating a hyperlink destination using PL/SQL
Creating a bookmark using the Property Inspector
Creating a bookmark on break columns
Creating a bookmark using PL/SQL
Creating an HTML document header using the Property Inspector
Creating an HTML document header using PL/SQL
Creating an HTML document footer using the Property Inspector
Creating an HTML document footer using PL/SQL
Creating an HTML page header using the Property Inspector
Creating an HTML page header using PL/SQL
Creating an HTML page footer using the Property Inspector
Creating an HTML page footer using PL/SQL
Creating an HTML Parameter Form header using the Property Inspector
Creating an HTML Parameter Form header using PL/SQL
Creating an HTML Parameter Form footer using the Property Inspector
Creating an HTML Parameter Form footer using PL/SQL
Linking an HTML object to a file
Selecting HTML tags from the database
Linking an image object to a URL
Selecting an image URL from the database
Creating a boilerplate text object for HTML tags
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