Opening a new window in a drill down

[driggels]

I have a report that lists the number of records in a batch file (PDF format). I created a link from the batch number to a drill down report that will display the records in that batch file (again, PDF format). I am calling these reports from a web page.

The link to the new report works, but I cannot get it to open in a new window. It always opens in the same window and I cannot even use the BACK button to go back to the first report.

Here is the code in the stylesheet to get the link to the new report:

TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=BATCH_ID_NR,
URL=http://glswfintnp/cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe?(IBIF_ex='VL0023WF' IBIAPP_app='NOSLoanMaint'FILE_TYPE='&FILE_TYPE' BATCH_NUM=BATCH_ID_NR),
TARGET=_BLANK,$

Is anything wrong with the above code? What should I do differently?

 

[FOCMAN]

I have had trouble with PDF and that may be the issue. May have to do with Acrobat plugin.

Switch to HTML output and see if you get what you want.

 

[driggels]

You're right. According to IBI, opening a new window is just not possible from a PDF file - it is not implemented. I can't use HTML for the report, so I'll have to think of a workaround.

Thanks for the response.

 

[mycompany]

Maybe this could help:

BUTTONS/A300 =
'<INPUT NAME=&quot;pdf&quot; TYPE=&quot;BUTTON&quot; VALUE=&quot;Acrobat Report&quot; ' |
'TITLE=&quot;Open a report in Adobe Acrobat format&quot; '|
'target=&quot;w&quot; onclick=window.open'|'
'(&quot;

http://mybusiness.com'

|
'/cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe?' |
'IBIF_ex=inmarpdf&quot;,&quot;window_name&quot; ' |
'</input>' ;

 

[driggels]

Thaks, but this is HTML. I need to be able to open a PDF report in a new window from a PDF report.