Adding a New Contact Record link in a report

Question

Dear Gurus,
I've followed instructions on how to create a New record link in a report using instructions from the Oracle CRM On Demand Reporting book but needed additional help in terms of how to auto populate the Account Name onto the New Contact Edit screen. I've created a custom Contact report that is setup as a web applet to replace the OOB Contact section that is showing on the Account Detail screen.
On this report, I've created a hyperlink that opens a New record edit screen for a Contact record. I need to pass in the Account Name since this is a required field on the Contact Detail screen and needed help with the URL that I've entered as a custom text format in the column formula. From the M. Lairson's Reporting book, I've entered:
@[html]*a href="/OnDemand/user/ContactDetail?OMTGT=ContactDetailForm &ContactDetailForm.Id="@target="_
top">"Contact Details"*/a*
(html not displayed correctly - I've to substitute < and > with *)
This worked great but I need to pass in the Account Name. Can you help with a URL that will do what I needed? Thanks.
Edited by: TTone on Jul 26, 2010 12:16 AM
Edited by: TTone on Jul 26, 2010 12:27 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
Copy the URL from the contact create link and pass the values like Account Name etc by adding it to the URL, use & to separate the values.
hope it helps,
Mayank