How to pass the parameter with & symbol

Hi All,

I need to pass this 'test&string' String parameter to Birt ?

How can we do this ?

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

Navanethan Muthusamy

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mwilliams

Hi Navanethan,

Are you talking about through a URL in the deployed viewer? Or just in the designer?

minawi

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Navanethan">Hi All, 
I need to pass this 'test&string' String parameter to Birt ? 
 
How can we do this ? 
Thanks in Advance. 
Regards, 
Navanethan Muthusamy</blockquote>
 
Here's an example as a link passing a parameter called type_id value of 1 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://localhost:8080/birt/run?__report=Reporttest_report.rptdesign/?type_id=1'>Testing BIRT</a>

Virgil Dodson

Hi Navanethan, from your email to me about passing String parameters, you could use the plus (+) sign to use Strings with spaces correctly 
 
paramName=test+string 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://localhost:8080/birt/run?__report=Reporttest_report.rptdesign/?paramName=test+string'>Testing BIRT</a>

Navanethan

Hi All,
Thanks for your reply.

I think i need to explain more about my problem.

1. I have created filter's in my application itself.
2. from BIRT I am receiving the filter value's via query string (URL).
3. I am having filter called "department".

Here the problem is when I am select "Infrastructure & admin" department, then I am not able to get the filter value... because the "&" symbol(append symbol).

Please help me in this case.

Thanks in advance.
~Navanethan

Virgil Dodson

Hi Navanethan,

Basically, you have to URL Encode your strings to use them on the end of you URL. If you are putting together an HTML form with either a GET or POST, then the string will automatically be URL encoded and will look like below:

department=Infrastructure+%26+admin

If you indeed constructing this URL yourself, then use one of the Javascript helper functions like escape(YourString).