how do you preserve the http link within the pdf

[patricia.williams]

I have created a report using Jaspersoft 6.1 and it is installed on myJasper Server build 20141128_1450.  When I run the report, one of my text field parameters is a hyperlink to a document existing elsewhere in my network.  It works fine.  If I click on the export As PDF, the report is viewable in another browser window with a url as http://10.10.10.32:8082/jasperserver-pro/flow.html/flowFile/C_EsummaryTotalsStatic.pdf and the links work just fine.  However, I want this report to exists somewhere else on my network for others to view/use.  But after a copy, the links are not active.  What am I doing wrong?  Or how do I export the pdf with working links to put somewhere on my network for public viewing?

[peter.w]

I am not sure if I understand your problem but..

You generate a report called "C_EsummaryTotalsStatic"

This has hyperlinks to a report called eg "\someservermy_network_shared_folderreport1.pdf" and these hyperlinks work.

You then export it as pdf "C_EsummaryTotalsStatic.pdf"

At this stage on your system the hyperlinks to "\someservermy_network_shared_folderreport1.pdf" still work

You then copy the "C_EsummaryTotalsStatic.pdf" to a share eg: "\someservermy_network_shared_folder"

The hyperlinks to "\someservermy_network_shared_folderreport1.pdf" don't work

Is this correct?

 

The problem is "\someservermy_network_shared_folder" can be mapped to user#1 J: drive and user#2 F: drive

assuming everyone is using PC and no one is using Mac or Linux

Option 1 <-- recommended

Make the report available to the anonymousUser on Jasper and tell everyone to get it there.

 

Option 2

Make the hyperlink to "report1.pdf" local to the location of C_EsummaryTotalsStatic

E.G. : ".report1.pdf"

And put both in the same folder and tell the users to copy everything to a local folder or date stamp the name of the files.

Why copy?

because you may find yourself in the position that a user has the file open and you want to

update and you will not be able to.