Using Inline Frames to Embed Reports

In the last chapter, you saw the Go URL used for linking to reports by inserting the URL inside of an HTML anchor tag. When embedding a report, you will do something very similar, except we will be using the HTML inline frame (iFrame) tag rather than the anchor tag. This method is used in most of the remaining methods for embedding reports described in this chapter.

I included a little bit about the iFrame tag in Chapter 1. I will review some of that information here, but the thing you really need to know about the iFrame is that it creates an HTML window (or frame) on the screen, and the screen, in our case, is a report or a web applet. We can display another webpage inside of that inline frame by referencing the page’s URL as the source within the iFrame. When that URL references a report, you will display the target report inside of the inline frame. If you add a narrative view to a report and then place an iFrame inside the narrative view, you have just embedded one report inside of another. More on that later—for now, let us review the inline frame HTML tags.