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How to override special chars in OpenDoc URL?

Does anyone know how to override special characters such as “&” and “/” in an OpenDoc statement? My report names and prompted values sometimes contain these characters (eg, “Mom & Pop’s Financial Report”, “New/Used Vehicles”).

Any help is greatly appreciated!


bhorizon (BOB member since 2007-05-15)

There is no way to do it automatically other than using a replace formula for your characters. I use this table for the HTML conversions.


hope this helps

rgoodman :us: (BOB member since 2007-02-06)

Use the below formula to override the special char before generate the URL

IF(ISERROR(FIND("&",$C$1,1))=TRUE,$C$1,REPLACE($C$1,FIND("&",$C$1,1),1,"%26"))

It works for me. Hope this is helpful.


asokkm (BOB member since 2005-07-26)