About Web links for PDF output About hyperlinks

Advanced Concepts 2-11 Section 4.7.17.3, Printing a report from your Web browser

2.2.3 About Web links for HTML output

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 objects 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 PLSQL and the Oracle 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 see Section 2.2.5, About hyperlinks . ■ An identifier for the destination of a Web link see Section 2.2.7, About hyperlink destinations . 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 see Section 2.2.8, About bookmarks . 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. ■ A graph hyperlink to link areas of a graph to specified destinations. 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 see Section 2.2.10, About before and after escapes . ■ 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.

2.2.4 About Web links for PDF output

This topic discusses the Web links that you can add to paper-based reports that will become active when you run your report to a PDF file and display it in a PDF viewer. Reports output in PDF format can include the following types of Web links: 2-12 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports ■ A link from an object to another object within the same report, or to another HTML or PDF document see Section 2.2.5, About hyperlinks . ■ An identifier for the destination of a Web link see Section 2.2.7, About hyperlink destinations . The destination can be any printable object field, boilerplate, frame, and so on in your report layout. ■ A string in the bookmark area of the PDF viewer that links to an associated object see Section 2.2.8, About bookmarks . 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. ■ A link that executes a command when clicked see Section 2.2.9, About application command line links . You can associate a command with any printable object field, boilerplate, frame, and so on in your report layout. In the formatted report, you can click the object to execute the associated command. ■ A graph hyperlink to link areas of a graph to specified destinations. In most cases, you can define Web links in an objects 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 PLSQL.

2.2.5 About hyperlinks

A hyperlink is an attribute of an object that specifies a hypertext link to either of the following destinations: ■ an object identified with a hyperlink destination within the same report ■ another HTML or PDF document on the same machine or on a remote Web server You can set the Additional Hyperlink Attributes property to specify additional HTML to be applied to the hyperlink. See also Section 4.6.10.1.8, Creating a hyperlink using the Property Inspector Section 4.6.10.2.7, Creating a hyperlink using PLSQL

2.2.6 About graph hyperlinks