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Adding Text Links and Image Links to Dashboard Pages

You can add text links and image links to a dashboard, and specify what is to happen when a user clicks the links. For example, you can direct users to another Web site or dashboard, open documents, launch applications, or perform any other action that your browser supports. You can also add an image or text only, without any links.

Before you begin. To edit a dashboard, your user role must have the Access V3 Analytics privilege. To edit dashboards other than your own personal dashboard (My Dashboard), your user role must also have the Manage Dashboards privilege. In addition, to edit a custom dashboard that is stored under /Shared Folders/Migrated Company Wide Shared Folder, your user role must have the Access Migrated Company Wide Shared Folder privilege.

To add a text link or image link to a dashboard page

1. Open the dashboard in the dashboard builder.

   For information about opening a dashboard in the dashboard builder, see Editing Dashboards.

2. In the dashboard builder, drag and drop a Link or Image object from the Dashboards Object pane to a section in the dashboard page.
3. Click the Properties icon for the object.

   The Link or Image Properties dialog box appears.

4. Specify your choices:
   • For a text link, enter the text into the Caption field.
   • For an image link, click Select Image; then, in the Select Image dialog box, select an image or enter the location and name of the image into the URL field, and then click OK.

     Specify the location as a URL.

     If you want a caption for the image, enter a caption for the image in the Caption field, and use the Position drop-down list to choose where the caption is to appear relative to the image.

5. Specify what is to happen when the user clicks the text or image:
   • To specify that an analysis or dashboard is to appear when the user clicks the link or image, select the Analysis or Dashboard radio button, and click the Browse button to select the analysis or dashboard.
   • To specify that another action is to occur, such as opening a Web site, document, or program, specify the destination as a URL, and enter the full path into the field that follows the Destination options. In the Target area, choose whether the destination is to appear in the user's existing browser window or in a new window.

     A link is defined as any URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that your browser can interpret. URLs can point to Web sites, documents, images, FTP sites, newsgroups, and so on. Depending on your browser, the following are examples of valid URLs:

     http://home.netscape.com/index.html

     ftp://ftp.microsoft.com

     news:news.announce.newusers

     See the following table for more information about the kinds of internal or external content to which you can link.

     TIP: When choosing whether the destination is to appear in the user's existing browser window or in a new window, note the following information. For every action except sending mail and executing a program, you can control how the link is to appear. Choose the current window when you want the action to occur in the display pane of the dashboard. The dashboard remains active, but in the background. Choose a new window when you want the action to take place in a new browser window.

     NOTE: To add text or an image only, without any links, leave the field that follows the Destination options blank.

6. Click OK.
7. Save the dashboard.

The following table shows link options for adding a text link or image using the dashboard builder.