{"id":290,"date":"2014-03-10T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arunethan.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2015-12-01T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:30:21","slug":"tableau-url-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arunethan.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Tableau URL action"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Use-case<\/span><\/h2>\n

We can carry out various external interaction using the URL action.<\/p>\n

We can use this to redirect users to google search results, intranet sites, REST methods or predefined URLs<\/p>\n

1. Google search<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=<Store Name><\/strong> store<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n

2. Predefined URL’s<\/p>\n

<Store URL><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n

3. REST methods<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.arunethan.com\/updateStoreInfo.jsp?StoreName=<Store Name><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

4. Email with subject<\/p>\n

mailto:info@arunethan.com?subject=Request for more information about <Store Name><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n

For a dashboard, open the Dashboard menu –>\u00a0then Actions.. –> Add Action, button –> URL..<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

\"4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Examples<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"1\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"2\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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