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Add links to visualizations

A great way to encourage self-service data exploration is by adding URL links to your charts and visualizations. That way, your teammates can click on a data point and explore other dashboards. For example, here are a few common use cases we see:
  • Customer lookup - In a table listing your biggest customers, you can add a link to the Salesforce Account ID field that will take you to their Salesforce Account page.
  • Application database - In a graph of most common error codes encountered by users, you can add a link to the Error Code field that links to your application database’s most recent instances of that error code.
  • Cross-linking dashboards - In a chart with number of orders per customer, you can add a link to a Customer Lookup Omni dashboard that lets you see more details on a specific customer.

Linking in action

Check out what linking in a visualization looks like in practice with this short video demonstration:

Adding dynamic links to fields

Omni lets you add dynamic links to individual dimensions and measures to curate that self-service data exploration. All you need to do is add the links parameter to the field in your model:
Search engine links on country field
country:
  links:
    - url: https://www.google.com/search?q=${users.country}
      label: Google
      icon_url: https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/new-google-logo-2015/400/new-google-favicon-1024.png
    - url: https://www.bing.com/search?q=${users.country}
      label: Bing