Learning about hyperlinks

A Hyperlink lets us access an external resource, which could mean opening a website or a report, downloading a file from the Internet, and so on. It also lets us navigate internally; that is, go to specific positions within a web page, report, and so on.

A Hyperlink has two well-differentiated parts:

• The link, which is the element that will contain the Hyperlink. Usually, when we hover over the link, the pointer changes to a hand, and if the link is a text, it will be blue and underlined.

• The target, which is the element the Hyperlink will point to.

In PRD, Hyperlinks work similarly. For example, we can select an object (link) and use it to create a Hyperlink whose target is another report. But it doesn't stop there. PRD lets us send values to that report's Parameters, that is, we can obtain detailed information from the link we click on, and by doing so, simulate the drill down typical of an OLAP analysis.

Up to here, this is all pretty common, but PRD goes a bit further...