BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Working with hyperlinked reports

Note:    This feature does not apply to Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence document objects.

Crystal Reports lets you use hyperlinks to navigate from one report object to another. You can move to a Report Part within the report itself, to other report objects or their parts, or to specific instances of reports or Report Parts. This navigation is available only in the new script-based DHTML viewers (zero-client, server-side viewers) included in BusinessObjects Enterprise XI. By linking directly from one object to another, the required data context is passed automatically so that you navigate to the object and data that is relevant.

Initially, when you add hyperlinks between reports in Crystal Reports, you create a link from one file directly to another. However, when you publish linked report files simultaneously to the same object package, the links are modified to point to managed report objects. (Each link is changed, so that it references the appropriate destination report by Enterprise ID, rather than by file path.) Also, the modified links become relative inside the object package. When you schedule the object package, BusinessObjects Enterprise processes its reports, and again modifies hyperlinks within each report instance: hyperlinks between report objects in an object package are converted to hyperlinks between report instances in a specific instance of the object package. For more information on object packages, see "Scheduling objects using object packages" on page 494.

To view hyperlinked reports, you must publish both the home and destination reports to the same BusinessObjects Enterprise system. (A home report is one that contains a hyperlink to another report: the destination report.)

Note:    For information about how to create hyperlinks between report objects, see the Crystal Reports Online Help.