SSRS Action to Open a URL in a New Window

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SSRS Action to Open a URL in a New Window

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posted 8/13/2010  by BrianKnight -  Views: [17113] 

When developing reports in SSRS, you will often want to click on a given value and go to a URL on the Internet. This is an easy concept in SSRS with Actions with the "Go to URL" option as shown in the below screenshot. The challenge comes in where most people want to open a new browser window when a user clicks on this row so the user doesn't navigate away from the report. To do this isn't especially obvious in SSRS but involves a single line of code with some JavaScript as shown in the below line:

 ="javascript:void(window.open('"+ Fields!ReferURL.Value + "','_blank'))"

 

Where Fields!ReferURL.Value is the URL I want to open in the new window.

 

 URL Action with to popup new window

 

 

 

tags : ssrs, expression, action
 
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JEBacaniSQLDude
JEBacaniSQLDude said:

Good stuff, even for Friday The 13th!  Cool

8/13/2010
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bFranklinMint
bFranklinMint said:
I'm attempting this in a report which is being presented in a Silverlight app using a Telerik HtmlPlaceholder control. The expression you provided doesn't work inside this Telerik control. I found a setting () for the Silverlight app that I thought would allow this function to work, but it had no affect. Wondering if you've encountered this?
10/11/2011
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user639654
user639654 said:
I am using this functionality successfully in Report Manager, however, we've got several "dashboards" deployed via PerformancePoint, and nothing happens when you make the selection. Any ideas how this differs once in the PerformancePoint environment?
10/21/2011
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MJSwart
MJSwart said:
Hi Brian, Do you think that this technique could be used to load a subreport? (Like in an iframe or something) The goal is similar... Not to navigate away from the page.
12/1/2011
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manish.mawat
manish.mawat said:
Hi Brian, its not working for my case like i tried it to open "http://www.bidn.com" in new window by using javascript:void(window.open('http://www.bidn.com','_blank')) but i am getting javascript:void(window.open('http://www.bidn.com','_blank')) as window url in new window. Thanks Manish
1/3/2012
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