SSRS: Relative URL Hyperlink

Question

In SSRS 2008 I would like to create a relative path URL. Long story short I have a subscription that outputs a few thousand static HTML pages to a folder that is used as co

Answer 1

If you look at the warning generated when you run the report in Visual Studio you'll get your answer:

[rsInvalidURLProtocol] The value ‘test.html’ of the Hyperlink property of the text box ‘textbox6’ has an invalid schema. URLs in reports may only use http://, https://, ftp://, mailto: or news:

i.e. URLs must have one of those protocols, and since there's no way of writing a relative URL when it starts with the protocol that means SSRS doesn't support relative URLs.

An alternative would be to set the base URL in a parameter, which would then be easily changed and would only require regenerating your html pages if it changes.