Action Links and Action Menus

An action link is a link to an action that you have embedded in an analysis, dashboard page, scorecard objective, scorecard initiative, or KPI that, when clicked, runs an associated action.

On a dashboard page, you can add action links as standalone links or you can group multiple action links together on action link menus. An action link menu lets users select, from a list of action links, the appropriate action to be executed based on the business insight that they gained from the data.

Additionally, you can conditionally show each action link, depending on the data. This powerful functionality enables you to set up context-sensitive menus that present users with the appropriate next steps based on the data that is displayed. For more information on conditionally showing action links, see "Conditionally Enabled Actions".

Action links that you add to analyses are displayed to users in the following views:

• Tables

• Pivot tables

• Graphs

• Funnel graphs

• Gauges

For information about views see "Adding Views for Display in Dashboards."

Action links that you add to scorecard objectives and initiatives are displayed to users in the following scorecard views:

• Cause & effect maps

• Custom views

• Strategy trees

• Strategy maps

• KPI watchlists

Action links that you add to KPIs are displayed to users in KPI analyses.