1. Overview
This article shows you how to set up a navigate interaction so that when a user clicks on some data, a URL (web address) is opened and the clicked value is passed as part of the URL.
You can also follow similar steps when using drill down or hover over interactions, which can be set to show A URL.
2. Example dashboard
In this example, we have a dashboard containing a table visualization with two columns.
3. Set up the navigate interaction
With the visualization selected, click Set Up Interactions and then Navigate in the toolbar or right-click menu.
In the navigate interaction dialog:
- Set Navigate to To a URL
- Set Open to an option such as In a new window if preferred.
- In the URL field, enter the URL to navigate to. To pass a specific value that was clicked on, include some placeholder of your choice that represents the clicked value. For example, the following URL passes a product value represented by the placeholder text Product into a Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Product
- To pass the value as displayed in visualizations, select Use Filter Value Caption. Otherwise, the unique name from the hierarchy will be passed into the URL.
- If your data contains entire URLs or parts of URLs such as ? or &, select Placeholder as URL, and enter only your placeholder or any missing parts of the URL into the URL field (e.g., myPlaceholder or https://myPlaceholder).
To pass a clicked value into the URL, click Set up parameters, and then Add new mapping.
- Under Source, select the value you want to pass into the URL. In our example, this is Product (Filter Value).
- Under Target, type the placeholder text you entered into your URL (in our example above, this was Product). The matching placeholder text in the URL will be replaced with the value that was clicked on.
4. Test the interaction
Switch to View mode in the toolbar and test the interaction by clicking on a Product value.
In our example, a new browser window or tab opens with the results of a Google search corresponding to the clicked value.
