Adding links from data values?

akk2

<p>Hi, is it possible for Birt to detect URLs in a dataset value and replace them automatically with links?  I was thinking of replacing the report data cell at runtime by a link, but now that I'm thinking about it, it might be more complicated than that because there could also be two URLs in a single data, for example:</p><p> </p><p>- "Customer filled out form <a href="hltp://test.com/12312">12312</a> on dec 12th and form <a href="hltp://test.com/123">123</a> on january 2nd."</p><p> </p><p>So this complicates things quite a bit...  So basically, any way to display a data set value as HTML so that links get interpreted as such?</p><p> </p><p>Using Birt 3.7.0.  Thanks!</p>

akk2

<p>Actually this might be of help:<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://birtworld.blogspot.ca/2008/05/embed-html.html'>http://birtworld.blogspot.ca/2008/05/embed-html.html</a&gt; I guess I could replace all of my report data by 'HTML text' items which refer to the actual data...  I guess this should work, sadly I've just implemented column sorting which might give weird results because of it, or in actuality might even give better results... I guess I'll look into implementing this solution and report back, but if there's a better solution please let me know!  Thanks!  </p>