Hyperlinks in Discoverer

Hi, Gurus,
I'm new to Discoverer, so I have a quick question. Does anyone know how to add hyperlinks in Discoverer? I'm working on a report that has a column that shows a URL for tracking purposes. If the user clicks on this address, a web brower should open and the user should be taken to the specified site. I've been reading discussion boards but I haven't seen any posts that relate to this problem.
Can anyone help me with this? Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

There are three ways to add hyperlinks in Discoverer:
1. Using Discoverer Administrator, you can make data fields clickable that can launch web links or external applications like Word, Excel, etc... For more information see the section titled "About drilling out to other applications" from Ch 9 Maintaining items and item classesfrom the of the Oracle® Business Intelligence Discoverer Administration Guide, 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.1), B13916-04
2. Use the text area in Discoverer Plus to define hyperlinks.
3. Inside data cells in a Discoverer worksheet. See the section titled "About drill links" in Ch 10 Drilling to analyze data of the Oracle® Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus User's Guide, 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.1), B13915-04
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