Error in passing value

Question

Hello expert,
Need your help its Urgent
Currently, in my report when user clicks on a particular column, popup will be display with more information for that particular data. This is working perfectly fine only if data or passing value doesn't contain “&” (and sign) character. If my data has got the “&” sign then popup will display with page not found error.
Any suggestion or alternative, Please reply it’s urgent,
Thanks in advance
Sagar

Answer 1

Hello sagardori,
The first possible situation:
The ampersand (&) is used in the URL syntax to pass variables. So if you have a text like this in an item:
Hello I am the one & this is the otherthe parameter will pass like this:
P1_ITEM:Hello I am the one & this is the other
And the & will define that there iis a new parameter.
Always use:
& instead of & when using an URL with HTML
Had to put it in code tags, because it doesn't escape on the forum as well :)
P.S.
You can of course check the parameter in the URL of your popup page
The second possible situation:
When using special chars in APEX, you should be aware that the default way to handle text fields, textareas or even display values (like in a report) have 2 modes.
1. Display as text(escape special characters)
2. Standard Report Column
There are actually some more variations but these two are the most straightforward. If you use the first, all special characters will be escaped. So if you put in:
<script type='text/javascript'>
alert('Hello, is it me you looking for');
</script>You will get exactly that code, only because it's escaped.
If you would put it in as a standard report column, it would show the alert box, because the code's not escaped, thus treated as a javascript.
So in short,
1. Check your URL (especially passing parameters)
2. Check your report settings for the right type of text handling.
Hope this helps,
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Edited by: [email protected] on Oct 13, 2008 1:37 AM