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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Categories Visualization
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 4, 2016

Allow more complex link renderer generation (include additional columns, custom calculations)

What I want to do is create URLs in a table that display an alias but launch an extended URL. The instructions in the user guide show how to add common prefix/suffix to the URL using the string http://{$}/ however this won’t work as I want to direct to multiple servers and hence the prefixes are not consistent between different lines.

I’m hoping for something like:

http://

{[Full URL]:$}

/

 

Additionally it might be useful to be able to include other custom calculations in the link renderer

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    Anna Lundberg
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    Jan 31, 2020

    It would be great if you could combine two columns into one link, so you take the URL from one column and the descriptive text from another column. Or make sure the column with the descriptive text can have a URL hyperlink taken from another column. 

  • Guest
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    Aug 12, 2019

    SPF-I-222 is similar request

  • Guest
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    Aug 12, 2019

    Work around is to insert calculated column to create the URL using custom expressions and have access to all columns e.g. 

    Concatenate("http://google.com/search?q=", [Term])" 

    Then use Link Renderer for this column.

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Link Template column property

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A link template used to create links to a website from the values in a table. For example, the link template can be "http://www.{$}.com", where "{$}" represents the data value from the column. {$} passes the same column value. How to pass another ...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 2 Future Consideration
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Refer to other columns in Link renderer

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I need to use values from multiple columns to generate the URL's. Currently, I insert a calculated column (using the concatenate function) to build the URL. I would like to avoid adding a new column for this (for performance reasons; the data sets...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration