External Links

This feature provides a way to transform a column’s values into links that will take the user to external web pages.

An example use of this feature would be having each product number in the Product ID column linked to the individual products on your company web site. Each unique value in the column provides a link to the appropriate product page, based on the column’s value.

Creating an External Link Column

1. To create a new External Link:
2. From within a report, click Modify in the toolbar and select External Links.
3. Click Create New.
4. Choose the column that will hold the links from the Column drop-down menu. This is the value that will be used as the variable in the link that is generated.
5. Type a name for this external link in the Label text box. This will be displayed in the list that appeared when you clicked Modify in the toolbar and selected External Links.
6. Specify the token that will be referenced within the URL in the Token text The token can be thought of as a variable that will hold the value specified in the column cell.
7. Specify the URL in the External Url text box, including the “token” where the column value should For example, if the token specified in step 5 is ProdNum, and the product ID can be used in a URL to return the page for that specific product, the URL might look something like this:

http://www.mycompany.com/products.asp?productID=ProdNum

8. The column cell value will be swapped out for ProdNum at the end of the
9. If the link should open in a new window, select the Open in New Window check box.
10. Click Save to apply the links to the report
11. To Modify an Existing External Link
12. From within a report, click Modify in the toolbar and select External Links.
13. Click Modify in the Actions column of the external link you wish to change
14. Make any desired changes.
15. Click Save to save the changes you have made.

To Remove an External Link

1. From within a report, click Modify in the toolbar and select External Links.
2. Click Delete in the Actions column of the external link you wish to remove.