# Adding hyerlink inside ignition report

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-hyerlink-inside-ignition-report/37530>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [August 9, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-hyerlink-inside-ignition-report/37530 "2020-08-09T02:38:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alok.Vijayakumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Alok.Vijayakumar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alok.Vijayakumar)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-hyerlink-inside-ignition-report/37530/1 "2020-08-09T02:38:09Z")

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is any way i can adding hyerlink(redirect to certain website or shared drive) inside ignition report(pdf or excel)

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-hyerlink-inside-ignition-report/37530/2 "2020-08-10T15:45:44Z")

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Right now, yes, technically, but it's a pretty horrible hack:

> [@PDF report linking](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pdf-report-linking/18860/2):
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> You completely nerd-sniped me with this topic - I definitely shouldn’t have spent as much time on this as I did. But, this is actually possible with the existing reporting module. We’ll definitely have to see about adding this capability in a better way. Basically, the workaround I came up with relies on the fact that objects in reporting can be copied to the clipboard and show up as XML representations of the underlying Java object. So, to use this (extremely janky) workaround: 0. Paste the s…

At some point in the future we're planning to introduce a `URL` property on reporting objects.