ActiveReports allows you to add hyperlinks to reports. The hyperlink property can be set to any HTML-style link such as http:// and mailto://.

This walkthrough illustrates how to add to add hyperlinks to a report in the PageFooter section.

This walkthrough is split up into the following activities:

• Adding an ActiveReport to a Visual Studio project
• Connecting the report to a data source
• Adding controls to the report to display data
• Viewing the report 

To complete the walkthrough, you must  have access to the NorthWind database (Nwind.mdb).

When you have completed this walkthrough, you will have a report that looks similar to the following.

Adding an ActiveReport to a Visual Studio project

To add an ActiveReport to a Visual Studio project

1. Open a new project in Visual Studio.
2. Click on Project > Add New Item.
3. Select ActiveReports file and rename the file rptHyper.
4. Click Open.

Connecting the report to a data source

To connect the report to a data source

1. Click on the yellow report DataSource icon in the Detail section. This brings up the report DataSource dialog box.
2. Click on Build...
3. Select Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider and click Next >>
4. Click on the ellipsis to browse for the access path to NWind.mdb. Click Open once you have selected the appropriate access path.
5. Click OK to continue.
6. In the Query field, type "Select * from suppliers order by CompanyName".
7. Click OK to return to the report design surface.

Adding controls to display the data

To add controls to the reports

1. Add a GroupHeader/Footer section to rptHyper.
2. Make the following changes to the group header:
   • Change the name to ghSuppliers
   • Change the DataField property to CompanyName
   • Change the GroupKeepTogether property to All
   • Change the KeepTogether property to True
3. Add the following controls to the GroupHeader section:

   Control	Name	Text/Caption	Location
   Label	lblCompanyName	Company Name	0, 0
   Label	lblContactName	Contact Name	1.562, 0
   Label	lblPhone	Phone #	2.687, 0
   Label	lblFax	Fax #	3.812, 0
   Label	lblHomePage1	Home Page	4.875, 0

4. Add the following controls to the Detail section:

   Control	DataField	Name	Text/Caption	Location
   TextBox	CompanyName	txtCompanyName	Company Name	0, 0
   TextBox	ContactName	txtContactName	Contact Name	1.562, 0
   TextBox	Phone	txtPhone	Phone	2.687, 0
   TextBox	Fax	txtFax	Fax	3.812, 0
   TextBox	HomePage	txtHomePage	Home Page	4.854, 0

5. Add the following controls to the PageFooter section:

   Control	Name	Text/Caption	Misc Details	Location
   Label	lblEmail	Need Assistance? E-mail Support: Support@company.com	HyperLink = mailto:support@company.com	0, 0.125
   Label	lblHomePage	Visit our home page: www.datadynamics.com	HyperLink = www.datadynamics.com	0, 0.375

Viewing the report

To view the report

1. Add the ActiveReports viewer control to a Windows Form.
2. Add the code needed to set the viewer document equal to the report document. See Using the ActiveReports WinForm Viewer for help.

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