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7 years ago
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Adding HTML Button to Dashboard (Desktop)

Hey guys, I would really appreciate if someone could assist me with this issue.    My boss wants me to add an HTML button to a dashboard. the purpose of this button is to allow someone to either re...
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    Greg_Deckler
    7 years ago

    Hmm, default Power BI buttons do not support mailto: links. You could create a table that had a column in it that had the mailto: link. Set teh Data Categorization to Web URL and then it will work but without the nice button interface. There is an HTML Viewer custom visual that you could potentially use. Otherwise, not sure if perhaps an SVG artificact might be able to be used, will have to investigate that further.

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Greg_Deckler
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7 years ago

Hmm, default Power BI buttons do not support mailto: links. You could create a table that had a column in it that had the mailto: link. Set teh Data Categorization to Web URL and then it will work but without the nice button interface. There is an HTML Viewer custom visual that you could potentially use. Otherwise, not sure if perhaps an SVG artificact might be able to be used, will have to investigate that further.