Special Character problems in LinkExp

[CIRS2CAP]

I am attempting to send a URL through the LinkExp of a TextControl. The link includes a plus (+) sign. The Report generator is taking this character & translating it into a UU character (%2b). Unfortunately, the url I am calling will not accept this translation.

I am using Version 6 SP 1 (both Designer & Report Service). I have tried multiple ways of fixing this; encircling the plus sign in double double quotes (""+"&quot, encircling the surrounding text in double double quotes (""L+S"&quot, doing each of the previous do while adding a forward-slash (""/+"", ""L/+S"&quot, declaring a global variable that defaults to "+" and calling that as part of the LinkExp, declaring a global constant variable that is hard assigned the value "+" and calling that as part of the LinkExp....all to no avail.

How do I get the report server to treat the + as a string literal value & not translate it into %2b????

 

[CIRS2CAP]

I have finally figured out a way to make this work...

FYI - the fix was to insert the following at the beginning of the linkexp...

"escape(

http://DELETED:8700/acweb/newrequest/do_executereport.jsp?......)"

By doing so, I forced the java code to convert the url back to normal text prior to sending.

Thanks anyway!