The syntax to create links in SQL reports is cumbersome. The below link, as example, often gets typos and then fails to work when run. CONCAT('<a href=\"/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?' , 'biblionumber=' , biblionumber , '\">' , biblionumber , '</a>'), AS 'biblionumber', Koha needs a way to allow the user to enter a 'shorthand' or alias in the sql query that is then replaced by the URL. For example: SELECT biblionumber|link_detail from biblio would resolve to SELECT CONCAT('<a href=\"/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?' , 'biblionumber=' , biblionumber , '\">' , biblionumber , '</a>'), AS 'biblionumber' from biblio List of current links documented on the wiki that could use aliases: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library#Links
More possible links from wiki: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Permalinks
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5697 ***