Quotes in a page level item not showing up as " when used in a hyper link

Question

Hi all,
In my app, I need to hyper link to a crystal report application with parameters from my page. I have a page level item that puts my parameter in quotes, but when the item is utilized in the hyperlink, the quotes come across as & q u o t ; (spaces were put in to the post to avoid html conversion) how can my string be used to appear the way I want?

Answer 1

I don't use Crystal Reports, but, in general, you should encode your URL. When you create your link, run the URL through utl_url.escape() first. Put it in your select statement.
E.G.,
select utl_url.escape('http://oracle.com/foo"bar') from dual;
will escape/encode the quotation mark and give you:
http://oracle.com/foo%22bar
This translates the " into a URL-safe escape code, %22, that should (I hope) be understood properly by your Crystal Reports server.
Good luck.