Writing out files with embedded links / javascript

[brianscott]

Hey everyone - 

Has anyone had any success generating html files with any level of complicated html outputs from the tool?  I don't want to write out a report per se, but some metadata and scripts that are result-row dependent that could be incorporated into the downstream solution with another tool.  What I have found, so far, however, is that writing this out using existing report out tools doesn't make a lot of sense because links don't work the way you'd expect if you try to incorporate in data row level parameters, and the render tool seems to be breaking if it has syntax it doesn't understand, which is lots of stuff.  The straight to .html output tool wants to create a report essentially, so, for example, I can't write an onload event that would get recognized and rendered, everything is just pushed into a table and treated as straight text.  

Also, anyone had any luck outputing a double quote " to a string field?  Shouldn't be difficult to figure out their escape sequence, yet it continues to elude me. 

I've got all of the data I need sitting right there, but I can't figure out how to get it spit out.  Can anyone help? 

[brianscott]

Attaching a sample workflow that demonstrates what I'd like to get; essentially I want the value in body to be the entire file.  

[jpoz · Accepted solution]

I got this to work by changing the 'File Format' to 'Flat ASCII file (*.flat)'.

[brianscott]

Hi JPoz - 

Thanks for the advice and worked like a charm.  Now to put that project back in front of me.  

Thanks!

[KeithJ]

This is a example of a way to get a href or hyper link into an Alteryx rendered report html output.

[KeithJ]

This is another example of injecting JavaScript in an Alteryx report output. If you load this on your server it will execute the JavaScript on the preview area after the workflow is run.