Creating and editing hyperlinks manually

Creating links can be also done manually. This type of option requires prior knowledge of OpenDocument programming and contains lots of advanced options that require an understanding of how to use this method.

In this recipe, we will provide basic guidelines on how to use OpenDocument, but in order to master it, further learning and understanding will still be required.

For the full OpenDocument guide you can download the official SAP OpenDocument PDF from https://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir4/en/xi4_opendocument_en.pdf.

Getting ready

We will use the Add Hyperlink option again in our report and add the appropriate parameters to it in order to connect it to another report.

In order to connect to a specific report, the most basic syntax would be http://<servername>:<port>/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?iDocID=.

The OpenDocument is a URL in which we can encode a set of parameters that can enable us to use a specific...