Encode & in Opendoc link to open a webi report

Hello,
We are trying to launch a webi reports from a dashboard and we are using URL (opendoc command)
One of the parameters is called the company name which has an & sign eg ( ABC & Associates).
When we try to run the webi report it never populates the data because of the name containng an &. We did try to convert the & to a %26. However this resulted in Xcelsius converting our % sign to a %25 giving us a final value of a %2526.
Is there a function available to encode the URL to solve this issue
AP

Hi,
Are you using Xcelsius 2008? Then the URL will be encoded automatically.
If you are using Xcelsius 4.5, then you will have to write a simple jsp (using java.net.URLEncoder.encode), and then use "XML data" data connectivity to connect to this jsp.
Hope this helps,
Bobby

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