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Bhartman30's avatar
Bhartman30
Advocate II
10 years ago

Formatting a Measure as a Web URL

Hey all,   I created a measure to show a default value, such as "Select a Customer", when no bars are selected. However, when the user selects a customer, it displays the url that takes the user to...
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v-qiuyu-msft
Community Support
10 years ago

Hi Bhartman30,

 

In your scenairo, please try to create a custom column instead of the the measure, then format the column values as Web URL. For more information, please refer to thsi article: Hyperlinks in tables.

 

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

 

Best Regards,

Qiuyun Yu

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priyanjnasharma
New Member
9 years ago

Hi ,

 

If we create a custom column, it calculates the value just once , i.e it cannot be made dynamic in case the measure is dynamic.

 

My requirment is to create a web url that is dynamic i.e based on my selections

 

  • tkerkman's avatar
    tkerkman
    Frequent Visitor
    8 years ago

    Did you ever find a solution to creating measure as a webURL?

    • The_Bishop's avatar
      The_Bishop
      Advocate III
      8 months ago

      Yes. I could change the 'Data category' to Web URL once the 'Data type' was set to text on the Measure tools menu (it was already set to be text in Power Query. Previously, my URL measure was returning as a Decimal number by default, for some reason. I add the measure to the values section so it lined up with the entry on the row.

  • vanessa's avatar
    vanessa
    Post Patron
    8 years ago

    Any solution to this?

    • tkerkman's avatar
      tkerkman
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      Unfortunately, no. I was not able to find a solution to this.