Picture as Link

I am creating a BI Publisher report that has a link that comes in with the data. Some times the link is to a web location, and some times it is to a local windows share, in which case it comes in with the full path e.g. \\server\share\file.pdf. I would like to have a small image as the placeholder for this link, and then set the address of the link from the data that is being pulled. I used the {data_tag} in the address of the hyperlink. It works fine with the addresses that are to web locations, but for the ones on the file share it is flipping the slashes e.g. \\server\share\file.pdf is being change to //server/share/file.pdf. Is there any way to stop this, or if not can I put some code in the Alt Text tab of the picture to make it a hyperlink?

Thanks

Dave

I assume you are using windows system. We don't have any option to do this effectively here. I was successfully able to do this locally by having an "hfs" server installed and converting the ipc$ links to http:// links and then using the http links to control. But this is of no use as its very ineffective and if u use this in a server, hfs will not be able to handle the load.