How can I specify the target page???

Kamelo · Post by **Kamelo** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:08 pm

Hi there,
Does anyone know to specify the target page when generating a URL in bar chart?

I am creating a bar chart with three bars, and I want to know how can I set a different url for each bar and how can set the target page i.e like in html where we set target="_blank" in order to open the url page in a new window?

Your help is very appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Post by **david.gilbert** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:43 pm

You'll have to provide a custom implementation of the CategoryURLGenerator interface.

ahill · Post by **ahill** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:48 am

Surely CategoryURLGenerator only generates the URL itself?

The target is a seperate html attribute in the area tag. Looking at the code in ChartEntity it uses an implementation of the URLTagFragmentGenerator in getImageMapAreaTag() to generate the full html for the tags in the html area map.

The default impl as used by ImageMapUtilities is StandardURLTagFragmentGenerator which just has

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public String generateURLFragment(String urlText) {
            return " href=\"" + urlText + "\"";
        }

You could instead provide your own impl that has

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public String generateURLFragment(String urlText) {
            return " href=\"" + urlText + "\" target=\"_blank\"";
        }

As you also need to implement CategoryURLGenerator to customise the URL contents like David mentioned you could have your class implement both interfaces.

hth

Post by **david.gilbert** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:10 am

You are absolutely right...sorry for the misinformation.

Kamelo · Post by **Kamelo** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:40 am

Thanks Guys,

I will try that.

Regards

Kamel A.