Hyperlink on a report to download a file

I have an XML field (of type XML) in my report's underlying table. I want to
display a hyperlink in my report. When the user clicks on this hyperlink, I
want them to be able to save the xml value as an XML file on disk (i.e.
"Save File As" in MSIE). Has anyone tried this?
Thank you,
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Alain Quesnel
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www.logiquel.comYou might be able to use javascript to make it open the file in a new
window.|||Any luck on getting this to work? I'm trying to do the same thing but can't
find any way to do it.|||Nope. I even reposted with the subject "XML field content to be downloaded
as a file" in case my first post wasn't clear enough. But no luck.
I'll keep watching and/or post the answer if I ever figure out a way of
doing it.
Alain Quesnel
alainsansspam@.logiquel.com
www.logiquel.com
"Elliott" <Elliott@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Any luck on getting this to work? I'm trying to do the same thing but
> can't
> find any way to do it.
>|||This is the closest possible solution I've found so far and it's from a
Microsoft employee:
http://tinyurl.com/2gs6sp
Basically you'd just have to create a separate web page/site that serves up
the file/xml from a hyperlink in the report. Not quite as easy has getting
it right out of the report directly, but it's definitely doable for my
project.
I'd be happy enough if the report would let me just display the xml with an
associated xsl file.|||Displaying the XML content on your report is pretty easy. Just put the
field's value in a gird like you would any other field type (char, int,
float, etc.). It's just that the cell containing the XML gets pretty big.
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Alain Quesnel
alainsansspam@.logiquel.com
www.logiquel.com
"Elliott" <Elliott@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3EE4182B-7C2C-4A37-A71F-F007DE1D6A5C@.microsoft.com...
> This is the closest possible solution I've found so far and it's from a
> Microsoft employee:
> http://tinyurl.com/2gs6sp
> Basically you'd just have to create a separate web page/site that serves
> up
> the file/xml from a hyperlink in the report. Not quite as easy has
> getting
> it right out of the report directly, but it's definitely doable for my
> project.
> I'd be happy enough if the report would let me just display the xml with
> an
> associated xsl file.|||Yeah, I realized I could do that. However I need mine formatted for the
users; I didn't want them to see the raw xml. If they could download it
directly from the report and open it in IE (which is default), then they'd
see it formatted like a webpage since the xml references an xsl file. That
would have been my preference.
Anyway, I took Chris Hays' advice and implemented a small ASP.NET site that
serves up the xml file with the xsl. It was pretty painless and took about
an hour.