Drill Through does not work if clicked from email attachment

Question

Hello,
Drill through when clicked from the report attached in the email, takes me to the home folder in the Report Server. That's the <URL Root> setup in the Reporting Services. I checked the solutions, but those don't work for me. One of them said to use
'Go To URL' in the 'Action' property of the text box, but JavaScript is not recognized when I tried to enter '="javascript:void(window.open('http://.........."  Please help.
Thanks,
jkrish

Answer 1

Hi jkrish,
Based on your description, are experiencing the issue when you  click in the report which will  link you to the home folder of the Report Server and the report was attached to an email, You adding the URL like this: ="javascript:void(window.open('http://..........”)" 
which doesn’t work in the email’s report, right?
I have tested on my local environment and can reproduce your problem in the email’s report, but it is fine in the report server ,the problem due to the JavaScript protocol can work only with an exact page. So, when you try to open an blank page to enter
the URL it will not work.
You can find more details steps to check the issue:
Open a blank Internet Explorer, type the following URL in the address box:
javascript:void(window.open('http://www.microsoft.com', '_blank'))
The URL can’t work fine.
Open a page such as :www.microsoft.com, and then replace the URL with the following URL:
javascript:void(window.open('http://www.microsoft.com', '_blank')
At this time, the Internet Explorer will open the home page of Microsoft.com in a new window. It means we can use the URL in Reporting Service well but can’t work in the email attached report.
If your SQL Server version is 2008 R2 or Higher you can Using this expressions in the “GO To URL”:
Expression: =IIF(Globals!RenderFormat.IsInteractive = true, "javascript:void(window.open('http://www.microsoft.com', '_blank'))", "http://www.microsoft.com")
This mean if you run the report in Report Server and click the link, you will open the URL using : "javascript:void(window.open('http://www.microsoft.com', '_blank'))",otherwise it will using this URL: "http://www.microsoft.com")
If the version is lower than 2008 R2 and will not support the “RenderFormat.IsInteractive = ”, you can add directly the URL (Example:=”Http://<ServerName>/ReportServer” ) in the “Go To URL” to make it work fine in the email attached report.
Similar thread for your reference:
SSRS 2005 Jump to URL javascript:void window.open fails in
Excel 2003
If you still have any question, please feel free to ask.
Regards
Vicky Liu