Report Column as link or normal text based on SQL result

Hi all,
I would like to achieve the following:
I have a report based on a PL/SQL function returning SQL query.
The first column contains an ID (i.e. a number)
If this number is contained in a nother table.field this column in this row shall be a link to another page incl. item assignments.
If this is not the case, it shall be displayed as normal text.
Example:
TABLE1.ID = 123456
IF SELECT count(*) FROM TABLE2 WHERE ID = TABLE1.ID > 1 then
show column as link
ELSE
show column as text
ENDIF.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
Thanks and best regards.
KMC

Hi,
You could achieve that by creating the HTML tags required in the SQL statement itself:
SELECT ...
CASE WHEN .... THEN '<a href="f?p=.....">'|| FIELDNAME || '</a>' ELSE FIELDNAME END FIELDNAME,
FROM ...Of course, this would mean that the column shouldn't be sortable by the user
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