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Short URL with display text

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Wenchang Han on 03 Dec 2014 07:59:45

Currently have to spell out the entire URL to enable hyperlink. Is it possible to give a short name to a URL with hyperlink enabled?

Administrator on 07 Apr 2020 06:32:02

You can do this! A few months back we shipped the ability to format a column in a table as a hyperlink that gets its URL from a different measure or column: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/power-bi-hyperlinks-in-tables Thanks for your votes!

Comments (33)

Comments (33)

04380f8e c02a-4079-bcc9-d4fea814e154 on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:25

RE: Short URL with display text

What my team would want is the ability to place the URL data point on an existing column, to make the column a hyperlink. For example, if you have a data source with two columns: Account Name and Account Link. Ideally we would want to put the Account Link data as a "hyperlink" for the Account Name column on a report. So that the account name would show as a hyperlink. As someone mentioned, this would prevent having to have an additional column with the paperclip... and would allow the Account Name to be "clickable" in pie charts, or bar charts, etc.

d337ea22 1f56-47d7-9404-dccc2a01a3f5 on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:15

RE: Short URL with display text

This feature would be very beneficial to finally have!

a030c7ac 5af1-4189-a5bc-d74e5f47f175 on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:47

RE: Short URL with display text

Feature really needed!

a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:31

RE: Short URL with display text

How is this even a thing? No alternate text? No image? An unchangeable dark icon you can't see on a dark background? Hard to replace an HTML based report when Power BI lacks capabilities that have existed in HTML since the very first HTML spec. Yikes!

3dc08c13 fc65-411a-b0b8-303b27a89c43 on 05 Jul 2020 23:58:03

RE: Short URL with display text

Under review for 5 years :)

af2a1cc7 a751-e711-80fa-c4346bacf588 on 05 Jul 2020 23:53:23

RE: Short URL with display text

The hyperlink icon is great; however, if I could make a text field as the URL string, this would save an extra column in a table, for example the item name or ref no.