Time for action – creating our first hyperlink

Now we will create a Hyperlink that lets us open a PRD report. We will create the Hyperlink on a text-field that contains the name of the country currently under analysis. Clicking on the Hyperlink will open a report that gives us information about that country.

1. We create a Hyperlink on the text-field object that has the value country in the field Attributes.field. We select the object, right-click on it, and in the context menu choose Hyperlink... as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   This will open the Hyperlink's Editor as shown in the following screenshot:

   

2. The purpose of this Hyperlink is to link to a Pentaho BA Server solutions report and assign a value to its Parameter, according to the country the user clicks on.

   To accomplish this, we complete the Editor's formula as follows:

   • Location: = Pentaho Repository.

   • Include server URL in path = True. With this option, the Hyperlink includes in its definition the value of Server URL:.

   • To complete the...