Adding hyperlinks in sql server - sql-server

I'm working on storing the body of emails in sql server as ntext. The email body which I'm storing has hyperlinks like "view my website". I want to represent this normal text as hypelink?
Any Ideas?

You can insert the text as a normal insert. You may want to consider using something like FCKEditor to allow your users to format the email properly unless your going to be able to control how the HTML is created. You will want to make sure your columns datatype and size are appropriate.
Not knowing your table schema here is a very basic example.
Insert into Emailtable
('emailHtml', 'emailText')
Values
('<HTML><Head></Head><Body>view my website</Body></HTML>', 'Text version of the email')
If your going to have spaces and special characters in your link you could HTML encode the link so when it stores it and retrieves it you know your getting the right values.

You can store the text as formatted HTML and when you sent it with your email client (not sure how you will be sending these) set the client to send the message as HTML formatted. Then it's just a matter of adding the tags to the NText.

the sql type named text is appropriated for html content(including hyperlinks).
In your page you shoud use HtmlString class to show htm content.

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MS access check box on a form

I looked in the "similar questions" and could not locate one like I have. I'm using Access to print labels for an event and there are 200+ volunteers to whom we will mail out their event package. I'm looking for a way to show all their names (thinking on a form) AND have a check box for the "print label." Once everything I need is checked, I open a report via command button and the selected names are printed on labels. Also, is there a way to store the date / time printed, so I can use that as a "was this label printed? function. I took a crack at what it would look like using Excel (see graphic),
First, create and fill a table holding the name, perhaps some other fields, and a Yes/No field:
ID - FullName - (other fields) - PrintLabel
Then, create a continuous form using this table as source (there is a wizard for this).
Finally, modify your report to use this table as source and specify a filter:
PrintLabel = True

Docusign Formatting and Salesforce integration issue

I am in a Salesforce environment and trying to send out a docusign document using Docusign and Conga. I am using a 30 day trial.
1.Using Conga and Docusign works very well together and the formatting is correct except that I need to have 2 radio buttons on the form. Is there a way to add anchor tags to my Word document and hide them(white text) like I do for the Docusign signature and date tags?
I tried following the documentation for creating the radio buttons in Docusign and tie them to a picklist field in Salesforce but I have yet been able to write back to Salesforce.
How do you control the text length for a Docusign template? I have fields that make up the address but the spacing is not dynamic so depending on the field value the text may run into each other. Is there a way to have the fields adjust based on field value length?
How do I show multiple related records? I have a case with multiple activities associated to it and I need to display them. In Conga I use a table and all of the records show. But if I create a docusign template it is only showing the first record.
If at all possible I would prefer to add the anchor tags to the existing document since the formatting is cleaner.
Michael
There is. You'll want to avoid applying anchor tags directly to a DocuSign template when working in the web console. The reason for this is that when you're sending from Salesforce with or without Salesforce anchor strings you're going to receive an error message indicating that there's no text associated with an anchor string.
You can accomplish this through Custom Fields inside of Salesforce.
Basically, you place your text in white where you want the tag to attach to your document. You'll want to set the anchor string in the format of \variable{r}\ on the tag, then in the underlying document you would replace {r} with the recipient number in the signing order.
IE: \variable_{r}\ becomes \variable_1\, when Salesforce picks this up it will tag the document automatically. For more information, see here: https://support.docusign.com/guides/dfs-user-guide-use-automatic-anchor-text-with-custom-tags-user.
In terms of writing back the value of a Radio Button, as I'm sure you've noticed this can be tricky. The values for the picklist in Salesforce need to match up exactly, then be written back by adding a new line in your Connect object. A step by step guide is available on the support site: https://support.docusign.com/articles/DocuSign-for-Salesforce-How-to-update-a-Salesforce-Field-with-a-DocuSign-Radio-Button-Value.
The Width of a text field is determined in one of a few ways:
1) You can supply a fixed size in the API call being used to generate them.
2) You can save the custom field inside of DocuSign as a Custom Field after setting the width to it.
3) Set the Fixed Size flag to false, then the text field should fill itself out when text is applied to it.
Would you mind being more specific in regards to the status record?

Power builder rtf column does not display simple text

I need to convert some datawindow text columns (PB 11.5.1 - SQL Server 2008R2 - datatype Text) to RTF.
I have 2 issues:
New data are displayed fine but the existing data do not display at
all
The RTF format popup has very limited height so the icons are half
displayed
For the first issue I did find a work around but it is far from elegant!
I append this:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1253\uc1\deff0{\fonttbl {\f0\fswiss\fcharset161\fprq2 Arial;} {\f1\fswiss\fcharset0\fprq2 Tahoma;} {\f2\froman\fcharset2\fprq2 Symbol;}} {\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green255\blue255;} {\stylesheet{\s0\itap0\nowidctlpar\f0\fs24 [Normal];}{\*\cs10\additive Default Paragraph Font;}} {\*\generator TX_RTF32 13.0.501.502;} \deftab1134\paperw3240\paperh16838\margl0\margt0\margr0\margb0\widowctrl {\*\background{\shp{\*\shpinst\shpleft0\shptop0\shpright0\shpbottom0\shpfhdr0\shpbxmargin\shpbxignore\shpbymargin\shpbyignore\shpwr0\shpwrk0\shpfblwtxt1\shplid1025{\sp{\sn shapeType}{\sv 1}}{\sp{\sn fFlipH}{\sv 0}}{\sp{\sn fFlipV}{\sv 0}}{\sp{\sn fillColor}{\sv 12506623}}{\sp{\sn fFilled}{\sv 1}}{\sp{\sn lineWidth}{\sv 0}}{\sp{\sn fLine}{\sv 0}}{\sp{\sn fBackground}{\sv 1}}{\sp{\sn fLayoutInCell}{\sv 1}}}}}\pard\itap0\nowidctlpar\plain\f1\fs20
before the text and add a } in the end.
I hope there is another way that does not include changing the actual data!
Any help appreciated
It might be a little cleaner to use the PasteRTF PowerBuilder function for existing data. Technically this doesn't solve your concern about changing data as the function probably adds the RTF tags much like you are doing manually.
As another method that might work is to try using a separate RichTextEdit control and the DataSource function. The DataSource function allows a RichTextEdit control to share data with a DataWindow and display the data in its input fields. If there are input fields in the RichTextEdit control that match the names of columns in the DataWindow, the data in the DataWindow is assigned to those input fields. I'd look at the InputFieldNamesVisible property also because it affects what is displayed.
This example from the Help File establishes the DataWindow control dw_1 as the data source for the RichTextEdit rte_1. Using a template document might be a way around your challenge of displaying data, but not actually changing it- not sure I have not used this myself.
rte_1.DataSource(dw_1)
This example inserts a document called LETTER.RTF into the RichTextEdit rte_letter (the names of the document's input fields match the columns in a DataWindow object d_emp), creates a DataStore, associates it with d_emp, and retrieves data. Then it inserts the document in rte_letter and sets up the DataStore as the data source for rte_1:
DataStore ds_empinfo
ds_empinfo = CREATE DataStore
ds_empinfo.DataObject = "d_emp"
ds_empinfo.SetTransObject(SQLCA)
ds_empinfo.Retrieve()
rte_letter.InsertDocument("LETTER.RTF", TRUE)
rte_letter.DataSource(ds_empinfo)
As far as the icon question - I am not aware of a solution for that.

SSRS action on field in CSV list

My client requires a report that produces a comma separated list of files in one column of a grid. I know I can use a FOR XML Path in my query to yield these results. However, the client wants to be able to click on an individual value in that CSV and be taken to a link for that element in the list. For example, the column in the report would look like:
1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg
He needs the ability to click on the 2.jpg, and go to that actual file. I know I can put in an action for the entire field to go to one URL, but can I narrow that action down to a specific part of the CSV list?
You can use placeholders to embed hyperlinks in comma delimited text, you'll need to wrap each value with an anchor tag and href. See the URL Embedded in Text section of my earlier answer an example.
SQLFiddle of sample code for adding markup. It's ugly in SQL but works.
I came up with a workable solution. The problem seems to lie in the fact that there are multiple URLs in the list. If i only return a single URL, it works fine. so, instead of a CS list, I return one at a time and use a matrix to group the other fields.

Recreate a form in CakePHP 1.3 from $this->data?

I've got a Cake application with a reports query interface, where the admin user can filter the data by various inputs in a form and the results are then displayed on the screen. I am looking for the simplest way to add a button which allows the user to download the results of this same query as CSV.
I'm sure I can create one for myself if I have to, but is there already a way to regenerate any given form based on $this->data? That way, I can just add .csv to the form action and use RequestHandler to choose the right output format.
[here take a look at the following...
instead of finding the data from Db you can simply pass $this->data to it.
take a look at follo
Exporting data to CSV the CakePHP way
I guess you have to replicate the function on your controller, one for generating the results on screen and another same function intended for csv, but on the function for csv it must have parameters which are similar to the values of $this->data. Use javascript to redirect on the function for csv.

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