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CDP Data Visualization enables you to create External Link visuals.

A link visual enhances your applications by accessing external sources of information. These sources may be either static URL addresses, or dynamic — results of searches to which you pass a name of a variable used in the dataset.

The following steps demonstrate how to create a new link visual for dataset World Life Expectancy [data source samples.world_life_expectancy]. In this exercise, we will pass the variable country to the Wikipedia site.

For an overview of shelves that specify this visual, see Shelves for URLs.

  1. Start a new visual based on dataset World Life Expectancy [data source samples.world_life_expectancy]; see Creating a visual.
  2. In the visuals menu, find and click link.
    selecting link chart type
    selecting link chart type
  3. Note that the shelves of the visual changed. The only shelf is URL.
    shelves of url link visual type
  4. In the URL, enter the following text: 
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<<country:Afghanistan>>
  5. Click Refresh Visual.

    The page specified in the URL appears.

  6. Click (pencil icon) next to the title of the visualization to edit it, and enter the new name.
  7. Change the title to World Population - Country UTL.
  8. At the top left corner of the Visual Designer, click Save.