Passing Parameter out from Crystal Report 8.5 Hyperlink to VB.net .exe application

[kakakaka77]

Hi, Everyone:

I am working on a crystal report and want to create a hyperlink which will trigger a .exe application and passing the hyperlink value to the application.

The problem is I am not sure the exact syntax of passing parameters through hyperlink.

In my crystal report, I have a {Customer.CustomerID} field, right click-> Format Field -> Hyperlink tab -> File X2 icon -> I put something like: F:\report\sales\CustomerTracker.exe&" "&{Customer.CustomerID}

It gave me the error message "Can not find the specific file". Obviously, there is something wrong in the hyperlink formula. Anyone has a idea of the correct syntax of passing parameter out?

It works fine if I just call the .exe from hyperlink by only putting in the .exe file location F:\report\sales\CustomerTracker.exe , it will start the application without parameter.

Thanks!

 

[IdoMillet]

In case you can't make this work in Crystal alone, One of the 3rd-party Crystal Reports viewers listed at

http://kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

allows you to use a double-click inside a report section to call another application and pass to it parameters based on a formula placed within that section. The formula doesn't need to be visible.

hth,
- Ido

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