Reports 6i with buttons that use the rwrun depreciated functionality

Question

I have several reports that drill down to other reports.
I understand that this functionality has been depreciated with the Oracle Reports 10gr2.
How do I code hyperlinks to perform this same type of function - displaying the first report in PDF and then having the user mouse over and click the link so that a second report will display... I would like to use PL/SQL to code the links...
This was the code from the button that I was using previously to perform this task... (FYI - we generate our reports in French and English)
begin
-- Run the Service Requisitions for Service report
SRW.RUN_REPORT('report='||:p_path||'FCS707.rdf'||' destype=preview desformat=default paramform=no'||' p_service_id='||:p_service_id ||' statuscd=0'||' p_dialect_cd='||:p_dialect_cd||' p_path='||:p_path);
EXCEPTION
WHEN SRW.RUN_REPORT_FAILURE THEN
IF :p_dialect_cd = 'ENGLISH' THEN
SRW.MESSAGE(2,'Error Running Report.');
ELSE
SRW.MESSAGE(2,'Erreur à l'||''''||'exécution du rapport');
END IF;
end;
I have about 16 reports that use this functionality and need to find a work around ASAP. As part of our conversion effort, we are now generating our reports to display a PDF document within a browser.
Thanks in advance
Darla

Answer 1

Darla
You should be able to do something like you are doing in the srw.run_report, assuming you have the reports server running. You will choose a field or item to be your hyperlink on the first report. Give that item a format trigger like:
function F_cFormatTrigger return boolean is
begin
  srw.set_hyperlink('http://my_repserver:7777/reports/rwservlet?report='||:p_path||'FCS707.rdf'||'&destype=cache&desformat=pdf&paramform=no& p_service_id='||:p_service_id ||'&_status_cd=0'||'&p_dialect_cd='||:p_dialect_cd||'&p_path='||:p_path);
  return (TRUE);
end;You can make the reports server call dynamic also, but I have made it a static, i.e. http://my_reportserver:7777