Hyperlink Elements
- 13 Dec 2023
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Hyperlink Elements
- Updated on 13 Dec 2023
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General
A hyperlink element can be used to insert a hyperlink into the report document.
Properties
Every hyperlink element has the following properties:
Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | The name of the chart element. This name will be displayed in the tree hierarchy of the content explorer of the Report Designer. |
| Code | The code of the chart element. There must be no other report element within the same report with the same code. The code is used to reference the report element from within a Template (see below). |
| Condition | An optional condition Expression; if it returns True or 1 the condition is considered to be fulfilled and the chart will be included in the report document. If it returns something other than True or 1 the exclusion settings (see below) will be applied. If you leave this property empty, the condition is considered to be always fulfilled. The condition expression is evaluated after the preparation Actions of the chart element have been executed. |
| Preparation Actions | A list of Actions that will be executed before the chart element will be processed. |
| Fail On Filter Exception | Determines what shall happen if an exception occurs when executing a preparation action that performs a filter (e.g. because the value to which you want to filter does not exist). When enabled, an exception will be thrown and the report document creation will be cancelled; when disabled, the exclusion settings (see below) will be applied. |
| URL | An Expression that returns a String that contains the URL of the hyperlink. |
| Text | An Expression that returns a String that contains the displayed text of the hyperlink. |
| Exclusion Behavior | Exclude Element. When choosing this option and the hyperlink element needs to be excluded, the element will simply be ommitted from the output and an optional replacement text (see below) may be inserted. Exclude Row(s). If you choose this option, the row that contains the reference to the report element will be remvoed from the report document. Exclude Sheet. If you choose this option, the sheet that contains the reference to the report element will be removed from the report document. |
| Replacement Text | An optional Expression that returns a String that contains the replacement text to insert into the report document when the report element needs to be excluded (e.g. if the condition is not fulfilled). Not all exclusion behaviors support a replacement text. |
Insertion
You can drag & drop a hyperlink element from the content explorer of the Report Designer into a template. A placeholder for the element will be inserted with the following syntax:
Hyperlink Element Placeholder
%%Code%%
Visitor URL Hyperlinks
Hyperlink elements can be used in combination with Visitor URLs. This allows to include a hyperlink in the created report document that leads the user to a Datasource object.
Example: You can create a visitor URL that opens a specific sheet of a Qlik Sense Datasource in the web browser.
You can achieve that by using a Datasource Object Visitor URL Placeholder in the Expression used as the URL property:
Datasource Object Visitior URL Placeholder Example
[Datasource].[MyDatasource].[VisitorURL].[MyObjectID]
The above example would return a String that contains the visitor URL for the object with object ID MyObjectID in the Datatsource named MyDatasource.
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