While HTML is the only format for reports, that is not much of a barrier to using "plain text". If you "preview" your report, or open a report file in your browser, and select "edit | select all" and then "edit | copy" from the pulldown menus on your browser. You can then "paste" the report into any program that accepts *either* plain text or HTML In other words - the browser itself, or the accepting program can invisibly convert HTML to plain text.

If you are using columnar reports, you may want to explore the ASCII export options in Sesame. That will output plain text directly. In addition, SBasic has a number of commands for printing and file I/O that can also create "plain text" files.

To use a hyperlink from inside Sesame, assuming you have the URL (i.e.: "www.lantica.com") as the content of a text field - you can use @shell in the ON ELEMENT ENTER event programming and pass the URL to your favorite browser:

To kick off I.E. using the text layout element "MyURL":

var ii as int
ii = @Shell(@chr(34) + "\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore" + @chr(34) + " " + MyURL)

To use a hyperlink in a report you will need to build the tag in the  element that contains the URL. This is easily done using a derived column and SBasic:

TagColumn = "<A HREF=http://" + MyURL + ">Go To Web Page</A>"

Also, BTW - We do intend to introduce a "hyperlink" field type in the near future.

Would this be usable in Q&A too -- unfortunately I lost the program manuals during an office move, and can't find any details of how to use @shell in Q&A's online help. Since it's obviously going to take me a while before I can switch to Sesame for everyday use it would be handy!

<<To use a hyperlink from inside Sesame, assuming you have the URL (i.e.: "www.lantica.com") as the content of a text field - you can use @shell in the ON ELEMENT ENTER event programming and pass the URL to your favorite browser:

To kick off I.E. using the text layout element "MyURL":

var ii as int
ii = @Shell(@chr(34) + "\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore" + @chr(34) + " " + MyURL) >>

To use a hyperlink in a report you will need to build the tag in the  element that contains the URL. This is easily done using a derived column and SBasic:

TagColumn = "<A HREF=http://" + MyURL + ">Go To Web Page</A>"