CE10: link to PDF from report

[JeroenBoon]

Hello,

On one of our servers we store customer invoices in PDF format. I created a Crystal Report that shows the invoice numbers and by clicking on a field with a hyperlink to the specific file location of the invoice, the report picks up the file and shows the PDF. This works great.
But now I want to place the report on the Crystal Enterprise server. The report runs, but the clicking on the field that contanains the link, results in a failure: CE places '

http://<servername>/crystal/enterprise10/admin/en/'

in front of my calculated location of the file. Is there any way I can make these links correctly on the CE-server?

Thanks, Jeroen.

 

[groggle]

I think if you use File instead of "website on the internet" it would work when published to BOE XI R2.

You can use the formula button to dynamically append the invoice pdf filename to the UNC path of the folder containing the pdfs.

You could even setup "master" formulae containing the servername in one and the path in the other if you needed to make it easier to maintain.

Then concatenate the master formulae to the invoice pdf value in the hyperlink formula.

 

[JeroenBoon]

Hello Groggle,

The problem is that CE places '

http://<servername>/crystal/enterprise10/admin/en/'

in fron of my calculated location of the file. This calculation alone would do the trick. I only need to know how to tell CE not to place anything in front of my calculation.

 

[groggle]

Yes, that's my point. I think, by choosing "website on the internet" CE is automatically placing the

http://<servername>

into the path.

If you choose "File" instead of "website on the internet" then it will not place the

http://<servername>

into the path.