Crystal report field in Infoview with hyperlink to .exe needs to pass param

I believe I have exhausted my searching and could not find an answer to this.
I have a CR that will eventually need to be published in InfoView. One of the fields has a hyperlink that points to a .exe.
The problem is that I need to have CR pass the data in the field as a command line parameter, but InfoView is treating the formula I used to generate the hyperlink as one link, so of course "the address could not be found". The .exe is on a network share drive.
This works fine in CR stand alone, but not in InfoView.
If the answer is obvious I apologize. I just began using both of these apps a month ago.
Thank you in advance for any information/help.
Ed

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