Hyperlink in a Cross Tab?

Question

Greetings All,
Version: Crystal Reports XI
I am attempting to insert a hyperlink in to a crosstab field entry.
My report is being passed a recordset of 4 columns retrieved from a store procedure: (crosstab placement)
1. Team name (columns)
2. Categorization (rows)
3. counts (fields)
4. website_url
Note: The website_url is different for each row of the recordset.
I edit the field details in the crosstab; Hyperlink tab.
Select 'A website on the Internet'
Enter the reference to the website_url recordset field in the formula editer.
During execution, only the website_url of the first record is used for all hyperlinks. Thus, it appears that the details are not being iterated over while the Cross Tab chart is being constructed.
Now, I understand that if I place the
I have also placed a hyperlink on the detail records. This, does function as expected.
I have done a significant amout of searching on both these forums and google with no resulting answer.
http://forums.asp.net/t/1237954.aspx
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=26781846&messageID=5556720
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=26781846&messageID=5509431
Is what I am attempting even possible?
Thanks,
Doug

Answer 1

All,
I have been looking at this problem for the last few hours and have found a solution, so I thought I would post it back to a community that has helped me out over the years.
How I did this was build a dynamic array to hold the specific value that I needed to put in the hyperlink making sure that this was created in a group footer of the same grouping order as the cross-tab.
Then in the hyperlink formula field against the Cross Tab I used this formula:
shared numbervar array aryId;
// Remember the CurrentColumnIndex is 0 based index.
if CurrentColumnIndex >= 0 and CurrentColumnIndex < UBOUND(aryId) then
    {?linkUrl} + "?reportId=" + CStr(aryId[CurrentColumnIndex+1],0,"");
This works like a charm, therefore for every column or row you could generate a similar solution.
Kind Regards
Matt.
Crystal Consultant at www.injenuity.co.uk