linking Business Objects reports

[gundrathi]

Hi

I am trying to link two Business object reports(version 5.1).
I need to link a main report to a custom drill down report.

If the main report contains account -id , and when user clicks on it, the user should be able to jump to the custom drill down report which has other details for that specific account.

I am not able to use the regular drills since it's doesn't give all the fields user wants.

any help on this will be great.

thanks
Gundrathi

 

[skrandel]

This cannot be done with the client. You can link reports using the OpenDocument function, but the viewing must be done in WebI.

Steve Krandel
Westbay Solutions

http://www.westbaysolutions.com

 

[gundrathi]

Thanks skrandel. Unfortunately we cann't use webi. We will be upgrading these reports to Business Objects version 6.0. Since it is enterprise version with sdk can we achieve my goal in the version 6.0.

thanks
Sreedevi

 

[skrandel]

Maybe, but I don't think so. The problem is that you can't put a button on a report.

What you have described is more easily done using Sections and the Map.

Steve Krandel
Westbay Solutions

http://www.westbaysolutions.com