Tableau URL action

by Arunkumar Navaneethan · Published March 10, 2014 · Updated December 1, 2015

My Use-case

We can carry out various external interaction using the URL action.

We can use this to redirect users to google search results, intranet sites, REST methods or predefined URLs

1. Google search

https://www.google.com/#q=<Store Name> store

2. Predefined URL’s

<Store URL>

3. REST methods

https://www.arunethan.com/updateStoreInfo.jsp?StoreName=<Store Name>

4. Email with subject

mailto:info@arunethan.com?subject=Request for more information about <Store Name>

For a dashboard, open the Dashboard menu –> then Actions.. –> Add Action, button –> URL..

The URL can be created with values from tableau <dimension> or <measure> using the triangle button