I have a data view of an announcements list. I've include theows_linktitle field on my dataview but when I add it to my page it doesnot show as a link but just text. I think this may be because I have itformatted as Rich Text. I tried changing it to hyperlink but I'm notsure how to configure hyperlink to pull the correct url.
The easiest way to get an example of the formatting is to add a normallist view web part to the page, then use SPD to convert the list View toa Data View.
I followed your suggestion and the hyperlink address it is showing ona normal list view web part is {$URL_Display}?ID={@ID}.I tried to change my Title to a hyperlink format and inserted thiscode in my already created data view on my other site but received anerror. I don't know if it matters but my created data view is usingXML web services to point to a list on another site collection.
Sounds like you aren't getting the same set of fields back from the webservice - make sure your field mappings are correct and you are usingthe correct @ vs. $ notation on the lookups.
Haven't had any luck getting this to work. Would the {$URL_Display}even work if my dataview will be on a different site collection thenthe list I'm connecting to?
Assuming that is one of the data columns being returned by the webservice, and it's an absolute URL, yes. If not, you need to eitherreplace or construct it in the xsl depending on what you do haveavailable.