Web URL Data Category

[Greg_Deckler]

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...

[tjd]

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]

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.