Escape a colon character

I have created a link from one report to another. I want to set the value of an item in my target page (a text box). Problem is the values being derived from the first reports query contain colons(:) and commas (,)
for example I want to set the text field to a value like: 354S::G1:GR(Sulf), KO_G, Col_Wt
Is there a way to escape these characters?

Hi,
You can not escape colons but you can pass commas in the url. Enclose the item value in \item_value\ to escape the "," in the item value . For colons, I would suggest creating a hidden field in the source report with SQL REPLACE function and replace all the colons with any other character like ||. Then you can use the same replace function on the target page to match with the new item value.
Hope it helps. Thanks.
Regards,
Manish

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