Contextual Report Linking

The openDocument feature allows you to create contextual links between Crystal reports, OLAP Intelligence reports and Web Intelligence documents. To do this, you construct a URL using the openDocument syntax and then insert the URL into a Crystal report, OLAP Intelligence report or Web Intelligence document.

Contextual report linking allows report designers to specify associations for documents residing in either a Crystal Reports environment (unmanaged) or a BusinessObjects Enterprise environment (managed). Once these associations are created, users follow the resulting navigational paths embedded in the linked documents.

This feature enables you to invoke Business Objects and Web Intelligence documents from Crystal Reports and vice versa. This feature relies on functionality that allows the user to do the following:

·            Link Web Intelligence or BusinessObjects documents within the document domain.

·            Link report objects in Crystal Reports.

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·            To insert a link into a Crystal report

·            To create a link to another report or document from an OLAP Intelligence report

·            Creating links in Web Intelligence documents