Hyperlink to run report page

[wyconian]

Hi everyone.  Hoping one of you gurus can help me out with this.

I have a number of reports that have hyperlinks to PDF versions of the reports.  The hyperlink runs the target report as pdf (and passes a number of parameters).

I'm trying to cut down the number of reports we have to manage so instead of having a standard version of the report + a separate PDF version of the report I want to have just one version of the report which has a different page for the PDF version (the PDF version of the report is based on the same query but has a more printer friendly format).

My question is: Is it possible to have a hyperlink in a report that points to another page in the same report AND runs that page in a specified format (mainly PDF but might also be xls)?

I don't think this is possible in 8.2, we're in the process of upgrading to 8.4 is it possible there?

Anyother suggestions on how to do this most appreciated.

As always thanks a lot for your help.

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Phillipe Phlop (apologies to any French members)

[tupac_rd]

not sure if 8.2 has this option, but you can create a seperate page in the same report for PDF output and have both the pages render based on Render variable for eg.

use the following expression for the render variable for the 1st page
ReportOutput ()='HTML'

and for the 2nd page for PDF output
ReportOutput ()='PDF' or ReportOutput ()<>'HTML'

So, only 1 page will be displayed based on the output type selected...

[wyconian]

that's brilliant thanks for your help.