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Greg_Deckler's avatar
Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
10 years ago

Web URL Data Category

Am I missing something or does flagging a column with the data category of "Web URL" not do anything? I guess what I was hoping for was that in some visualization that it would actually show up as a clickable link or something...

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  • tjd's avatar
    tjd
    Impactful Individual
    10 years ago

    The column containing the web URL has to be in the format "http://..." or "https://....  If you put the column into a table, it will be clickable but not necessarily in other types of visualizations.  Hope this helps.

    • Greg_Deckler's avatar
      Greg_Deckler
      Community Champion
      10 years ago

      OK, that seemed to do it. For some reason, when the query brought in the URL, it replaced the ":" with ":", the ASCII HTML markup code for ":". This, despite the fact that I specifically replaced ":" with ":" in the M code and it showed up correctly in the preview as ":" instead of ":". So, I created a new column:

       

      Url = REPLACE([Link],5,5,":")

      And tagged this new column as "Web URL" and it worked as I expected.