Defining Links for a Chart

To define a link for any data plot

1	From Chart Attributes, click Edit.

2	Click Functional.

3	In the Click URL field, define the link attribute as in the following example: link='ShowDetails.asp%3FMonth%3DJan'

With the above XML, the data plot (be it column, pie or line/area anchor), when clicked, will take to the page ShowDetails.asp?Month=Jan, which might contain another chart to show detailed results for the month of January.

The chart view expects all the links in URL Encoded format, if you have characters special characters (such as ?,&) in your link. When the user clicks the link, the chart view decodes it and invokes ShowDetails.asp?Month=Jan.

All the server-side scripting languages provide a generic function to URL Encode any string.