SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

Chapter 10. Using Hyperlinks

This chapter contains the following recipes:

• Connecting reports
• Passing parameters between reports
• Linking to a web page
• Creating and editing hyperlinks manually

Introduction

The hyperlink is a feature that enables us to connect between reports or to create links to external sources, such as websites or even CRM and ERP web applications.

The main usability of hyperlinks is connecting between reports.

Connecting between reports has several advantages:

• We can navigate between reports that have different granularity levels (summarized and detail).
• We can navigate between reports based on different universes.
• We can pass specific values from the master report to the drilled report, so we can analyze a wider range of data just when ...