Spawning a new browser in hyperlink in java/tomcat

Post Author: passionlessDrone

CA Forum: General

Hello friends -

I'm going crazy trying to reckon a way to spawn a new browser from a hyperlink field with the java info view / tomcat set up. Based on some recommendations provided for .NET users, I went ahead and modified viewDHTMLReport.jsp with the following line, diretly after the CrystalReportInteractiveViewer was created:

viewer1.setHyperlinkTarget("_blank");

I have confidence this is being called, as I mispelled the function name on my first try and got a 505 returned from Tomcat indicating bad method name, etc. Tragically, even with a valid method name, the page continues to render 'target="_self" no matter what value is passed in as a hyperlink target. I have also tried modifiying DHTMLViewer.jsp and ADHTMLViewer.jsp with similar calls directly after the setProductLocale call, but the same results.

Is there a chance that processHttpRequest in the Viewer just doesn't pay attention to what gets set in setHyperlinkTarget and will return "_self" no matter what?

It also seems a bit naughty that it appears you have to globally set hyperlinks to either spawn new windows or not.

Any insight or advice is greatly appreciated!

Take care!

-pD