Creating a report as a navigation path for other pages

Question

Hi,
I would like to create a report which presents a list of an application's pre-defined reports (each report is created in a separate page). This report should include the following columns:
1) Report Number (1, 2 , 3, ...)
2) Report Name
3) Report Description
4) A link or button or whatever else that should be used to redirect the user to the appropriate report page that he selects.
So by clicking on the link or button in the report row the application redirects the user to the appropriate report page.
For example:
If I have 10 predefined reports in the application, these reports are created on pages 1 to 10 in the application. I need to create a report that gathers these 10 reports (reports rows/lines) and the user can select the desired report by clicking something on the report row level to be redirected to the appropriate detailed report page.
Please advice and thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ahmed El Shinnawy.
Edited by: ashinnawy on Aug 3, 2009 3:00 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
If you have only a few items, I would suggest using a List.
However, it is possible to create a report that provides links to pages based on values in a table. For example, supposing you create a report using:
SELECT REPORT_PAGE,
REPORT_NAME
FROM REPORTS
ORDER BY REPORT_NAMEUntick the "Show" option for REPORT_PAGE. On the REPORT_NAME column definition, go to the Link section and make the following settings:
Link Text: #REPORT_NAME# (you can click the [REPORT_NAME] link under this option to quickly make this setting)
Page: #REPORT_PAGE#
Any #COLUMN_NAME# entries you make here are picked up from the appropriate column in the row's data. You don't need to show the page number (unless you particularly wanted to?), so you just hide it from the user.
Bear in mind that this IS a report, so it will be formatted as such - you may have to play with a new report template to get it looking smart!
Andy