Drill through hyperlink file vs URL questions

Hi:
Yes I am a newbie.
I have creaed a Two Birt reports - Master and Detail and within the Birt Previewer I can sucessfully drill through from the master to the detail. Also, from the navigator pane when I run the master report and then export it as a PDF, when I drill through to the detail report it drills through and creates my PDF detail report - exactly what we want.
When we execute the master report from a java class - the master PDF is created with the hyperlinks in the master report. However when we click on the hyperlink it is try to link to a file and not a URL - obviously I am missing something.
Here is an example of the link that would work:

http://127.0.0.1:58036/viewer/frameset?__report=C:\projectsReports\NightlyTracs\reports\Detail.rptdesign&__format=pdf&TicketId=1109-000014&__overwrite=true&__locale=en_US&__timezone=America/Regina&__svg=false&__designer=true&__pageoverflow=0&__masterpage=true&__resourceFolder=C:\projectsReports\NightlyTracs

not working link...
file:///C:/projectsReports/NightlyTracs/reports/output/run?__report=%2FC%3A%2FprojectsReports%2FNightlyTracs%2Freports%2FDetail.rptdesign&TicketId=%5B1109-000196%5D&__overwrite=true

Any help would be appreciated muchly

Thanks

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JasonW

This is an ActionHandler issue. Generally drill through works fine when deploying the engine in a web app. When you run it from a stand alone Java application, the link created has no idea on how you want the detail report to run. If you have the viewer deployed somewhere you can always tell the hyperlink to use the viewer to run the detail report. You can do this by setting the base url for the default action handler like:

HTMLRenderOption options = new HTMLRenderOption();
options.setOutputFileName("output/resample/master.html");
options.setOutputFormat("html");
options.setHtmlRtLFlag(false);
options.setEnableAgentStyleEngine(true);
options.setEmbeddable(true);
options.setBaseURL("http://localhost:8080/birt2.6.1/frameset");
task.setRenderOption(options);
task.run();

This will prepend all the url links with the base url. You can also implment your own action handler to customize how the links are generated. If you use this approach implement the IHTMLActionHandler interface. I am attaching an example. Then set your action handler in the options like:

options.setActionHandler(new MyActionHandler());

Jason

whitey2

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'JasonW'" data-cid="83043" data-time="1316533658" data-date="20 September 2011 - 08:47 AM">
This is an ActionHandler issue. Generally drill through works fine when deploying the engine in a web app. When you run it from a stand alone Java application, the link created has no idea on how you want the detail report to run. If you have the viewer deployed somewhere you can always tell the hyperlink to use the viewer to run the detail report. You can do this by setting the base url for the default action handler like: 
 
HTMLRenderOption options = new HTMLRenderOption(); 
options.setOutputFileName("output/resample/master.html"); 
options.setOutputFormat("html"); 
options.setHtmlRtLFlag(false); 
options.setEnableAgentStyleEngine(true); 
options.setEmbeddable(true); 
options.setBaseURL("<a class='bbc_url' href='http://localhost:8080/birt2.6.1/frameset'>http://localhost:8080/birt2.6.1/frameset"</a>); 
task.setRenderOption(options); 
task.run(); 
 
This will prepend all the url links with the base url. You can also implment your own action handler to customize how the links are generated. If you use this approach implement the IHTMLActionHandler interface. I am attaching an example. Then set your action handler in the options like: 
 
options.setActionHandler(new MyActionHandler()); 
 
Jason </blockquote>

whitey2

Thanks - I am mostly doing the design of reports / creation of reports for now and haven't been focusing on deployment / integration. I will work with some others on your solution.

Thanks a lot