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Crystal report with hyperlinks viewed with Business Objects outside iframe

Hi,
I have a report that has links in a table. Those links are external links. Now if the user opens the report (opendocument) the links can be clicked and get loaded, but not all of them. Those external links that do not support iframe loading are problematic. And most pages look weird.
Is there are a way to have those links open in a new window without the iframe behaviour?
Best
Martin

Not familiar with Crystal hyperlinks but in terms of hyperlinks in general, you can use target="_blank" within your anchor link to open the link in a new page (or tab). For example:

<a href="http://www.google.co.uk">Open Google in this tab</a>
versus
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk" target="_blank">Open Google in new tab</a>

Hi,
thanks, but since this is a complex report in Crystal reports, we have to stay within Crystal reports as design tool. Unfortunately in combination with BO, it is a challenge and I have seen neither a way to inject HTML.

Apologies if I wasn’t clear, I wasn’t talking about injecting html, more explaining how it’s done in html in general. Is there a Hyperlink Target property when you’re building the link?

What happens if you right-click on the link and select “Open in New Tab”? If that works correctly, you could train your users to do that instead.

-Dell

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Hi,
it is a shame I did not come up with this. If we are able to train the users to right click and open in new tab, stuff works just as expected. Not saying it is an easy undertaking, but that piece of advice might just do it. Thanks
Best
Martin