Multilevel BOM Report hyperlinks

Question

How can I add hyperlinks to the Multilevel BOM report so that the Part Numbers in the table are clickable links that would open that part in another tab?&nbsp;

christopher_gillis · Answer

Hello,
You might be able to do this by modifying the&nbsp;Stylesheet of the Multilevel BOM report. This stylesheet generates HTML based on the BOM structure passed into it, so you can likely add links&nbsp;&lt;a href="LINK_TO_YOUR_ITEM"/&gt; to the report.&nbsp;
Note that when modifying the stylesheet, you will need to click the&nbsp;Apply button at the bottom before saving the Report in order to keep your changes.

Chris
Christopher Gillis
Aras Labs Software Engineer

jmadrid · Answer

Did not work, I got it to work another way though. Thanks for the help anyways!

christopher_gillis · Answer

Hi jmadrid,
If you're willing to share, would you mind posting the general approach for your solution here?&nbsp;:) I'd bet&nbsp;someone else will stumble upon this forum post in the future who's looking to do the same thing.
Chris

jmadrid · Answer

Sure, its a bit complicated to explain but I'll do my best.&nbsp;&nbsp;
I implemented PLM's existing ability to create a link to an ItemType. For example in a part record, if you navigate to the top task-bar and select File &gt; Properties &gt; Copy Link. This is a shareable link that can be sent to someone that opens that ItemType in another PLM tab. For a part this link ends in:
/?StartItem=Part:2C04A166013F4A819CC2EA7C829DEC32.&nbsp;
Additionally, this link opens another browser tab to let the user know that the link worked, and that was messing things up in PLM. To overcome that, I created an iframe as such:
&lt;iframe src="javascript.html" width="0" height="0" tabindex="-1" title="empty" class="hidden" name="iframe_Part"/&gt;&nbsp;
Then I hid the iframe with the following CSS:
iframe.hidden {display:none}
To implement this in the stylesheet, I replaced the following line:
&lt;xsl:value-of select="item_number"/&gt;
With this &lt;a&gt; element:
&lt;a href="URL_BEFORE_FORWARD_SLASH/?StartItem=Part:{id}" target="iframe_Part"&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="item_number"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&nbsp;
Just be cautious when using this link. If your hyperlink is a one derived from a part record, it will not open a CAD or Document, those have different links that look like the following, respectively:
URL_BEFORE_FORWARD_SLASH/?StartItem=CAD:{id}
URL_BEFORE_FORWARD_SLASH/?StartItem=Document:{id}
Also, I said&nbsp;URL_BEFORE_FORWARD_SLASH because this would vary from company to company.&nbsp;

I hope this helps. Thanks!

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