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Published inDec 2016
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781784395513
Edition1st Edition
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Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Shweta Sankhe-Savale
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Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Shweta Sankhe-Savale is the Co-founder and Head of Client Engagements at Syvylyze Analytics (pronounced as "civilize"), a boutique business analytics firm specializing in visual analytics. Shweta is a Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate and a Tableau Accredited Trainer. Being one of the leading experts on Tableau in India, Shweta has translated her experience and expertise into successfully rendering analytics and data visualization services for numerous clients across a wide range of industry verticals. She has taken up numerous training as well as consulting assignments for customers across various sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Retail, E-commerce, Consulting & Professional Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare & Pharma, ITeS etc. She even had the privilege of working with some of the renowned Government and UN agencies as well. Combining her ability to breakdown complex concepts, with her expertise on Tableau's visual analytics platforms, Shweta has successfully trained over a 1300+ participants from 85+ companies.
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Using the URL action


There are times when we would want to access more information about data that maybe hosted outside our data source. This information could either be on a web page, file, or other web-based resources that are outside of Tableau. To access these from our Tableau workbook, we will need to create hyperlinks. These hyperlinks can be created using a URL action. Thus, a URL action is a hyperlink that points to a web page, file, or other web-based resources that are outside of Tableau.

Further, we can pass values and replace the field values in the URL to make the link more relevant to our data. Let us follow the recipe that is given here, to understand the URL action better.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will first create a new dashboard which has a map that shows state-level information. We will then embed a web page which will be a Wikipedia page and try to pass values from our Tableau view to show the relevant information on the web page. Let's get started.

How to do it...

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Published in: Dec 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781784395513

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Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Shweta Sankhe-Savale is the Co-founder and Head of Client Engagements at Syvylyze Analytics (pronounced as "civilize"), a boutique business analytics firm specializing in visual analytics. Shweta is a Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate and a Tableau Accredited Trainer. Being one of the leading experts on Tableau in India, Shweta has translated her experience and expertise into successfully rendering analytics and data visualization services for numerous clients across a wide range of industry verticals. She has taken up numerous training as well as consulting assignments for customers across various sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Retail, E-commerce, Consulting & Professional Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare & Pharma, ITeS etc. She even had the privilege of working with some of the renowned Government and UN agencies as well. Combining her ability to breakdown complex concepts, with her expertise on Tableau's visual analytics platforms, Shweta has successfully trained over a 1300+ participants from 85+ companies.
Read more about Shweta Sankhe-Savale