Hyperlinks in 11g (11.1.1.7)

Question

I'm reposting a post from 2 years ago because, as far as I can tell, there is no solution. I'd like to know if anyone has successfully implemented hyperlinks in BIP 11g.
Can anyone share the method of calling a BIP 11g report from a hyperlink in an RTF file, and passing a parameter into that target report?
I have a BIP report that includes the REGION field, which I want to define as a hyperlink. I want to click on one of the values of REGION, and have it open a second BIP report, passing the clicked value into the RGN parameter in that second report.
The method in 10g was reasonably simple. We could assign the basic URL to a variable, then pass in an argument, like this:
Defining the variable: <?variable:Drill_Rgn;string('http://localhost:9704/path_to_BIP_report')?>
Hyperlink to call the report, passing the REGION field into the RGN parameter: {$Drill_Rgn}?RGN={REGION}
In 11g, the URL is significantly different, and has been made MUCH more complex. Instead of the parameter being passed in using the standard '=' method as it was in 10g, the 11g URL has the parameter imbedded inside the URL, as follows:
http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll?bipublisherEntry&Action=open&itemType=.xdo&bipPath=%2F~retro901%2F_filters%2FRetrospectives%2FSubRegion_Sales.xdo&bipParams={"_xmode":"2","_xpf":"","_xpt":"0","_xdo":"%2F~retro901%2F_filters%2FRetrospectives%2FSubRegion_Sales.xdo","*_paramsRGN":"Central"*,"_xt":"Basic1","_xf":"html","_xautorun":"true"}
Notice the inclusion (bolded) of _paramsRGN"."Central"*, where Central is a value of my REGION field in the XML. The value is in double-quotes, and is imbedded within the URL. This is the exact code copied from the Share Report Link option on the BIP viewer screen when Central is the value of the RGN parameter.
Based on ideas from the documentation, I have tried replacing "Central" with: {REGION}, {$REGION}, REGION, %REGION, "{REGION}", "{$REGION}", "REGION", and "%REGION". No luck. The URL does not get formed properly (i.e. the field value is not substituted into the URL). I've also tried the old (10g) syntax. Nothing I've tried will replace the default value of RGN as specified in the data model.
What is the correct method, in 11g, for calling a BI Publisher report from a hyperlink in an RTF file, and passing a field value into a parameter?

Answer 1

Hi all,
does anyone know whether there is any system component pre-requisite, apart from installing xdk, in order for acl to work?
I have this question because after trying different methods we finally made utl_smtp worked on a testing server two days ago (without exactly know what made it work). Then, we tried to redo the whole process (i.e. create brand new database, import data, create acl, run the email function). Out of luck, we fell back to ORA-24247: network access denied by access control list (ACL) problem again. we compared the two databases but found no clue why one working another failed.
By checking the result of the two databases for the following
select host, lower_port, upper_port, acl
from dba_network_acls;
select principal, privilege, is_grant, acl
from dba_network_acl_privileges;
acl on both are the same
Is there any thing we missed out? any hidden pre-requisite?
This is urgent. Could somebody help? please
Some more update:
the database (say X) where acl works has "SYSTEM" as one of the owners of 'UTL_TCP','UTL_SMTP','UTL_MAIL','UTL_HTTP','UTL_INADDR' but in database (say Y) where acl doesn't work "SYSTEM" is not part of owner of 'UTL_TCP','UTL_SMTP','UTL_MAIL','UTL_HTTP','UTL_INADDR'
in X, acl is granted to a role, email invoker with such role can send email successfully;
in Y, both acl on user and acl on role do not work at all.
Edited by: bsmt on May 5, 2010 7:46 PM