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External link visuals

CDP Data Visualization enables you to create External Link visuals.

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

The following steps demonstrate how to create a new External Link visual for the World Life Expectancy dataset. In this exercise, the variable country is passed to the Wikipedia site.

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

  1. Start a new visual based on the World Life Expectancy dataset.
    For instructions, see Creating a visual.
  2. Select Link in the VISUALS menu.

    The shelves of the visual changed. The only shelf is URL.

  3. In the URL field, enter the following text: 
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan
  4. Click REFRESH VISUAL.

    The page specified in the URL appears.

  5. Click the (pencil icon) next to the title of the visualization to edit it, and change the title to World Population - Country UTL.
  6. At the top left corner of the Dashboard Designer, click SAVE.