Hiding Hyperlinks in Crystal

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have created several Crystal Reports XI R2 that contain summary fields in them that, when clicked on, are hyperlinked to child reports using OpenDocument.jsp. The hyperlink in the parent report also includes parameters, including a workgroup name, to be passed to the child report. It all works fine.

When I publish the reports in BOXI, and the parent report runs, if I right click on the hyperlinked summary field in my browser and choose properties, I can see the full URL in clear text that links to the child report, including all the passed parameters.

My question is, how do I hide or encrypt the full URL so that the end user cannot see them? With them being visible, all a savvy user has to do is copy the URL into the browser address bar, change the workgroup parameter value, and they can see another workgroup's data.

I don't know if this is the right forum for this, but I thought it would be the place to start.

Any ideas?

[JWiseman · Accepted solution]

hi Perry,

i was going through the unanswered questions in the crystal reports design forum and saw your post.

to hide a hyperlink you must wish to use a javascript function on a submit link. that way the browser only shows the function name when hovering over the link.

we have built an html / javascript function library called webelements, available [here|], that will do just that. don't worry, they are free

you just have to activate pass-through html on your system and install the library to your report...they are crystal reports custom functions which you may already be familiar with.

on the main webelements report in the download, there are example formulae, including submit links and buttons, that you can copy and paste on to your existing report.

cheers,

jamie