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description: After giving dashboard viewers insights about their business, drive them to take the next step by providing one-click access to Salesforce records or websites.
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# Link a Dashboard Widget to a Website or Salesforce Record

After giving dashboard viewers insights about their business, drive them to take the next step by providing one-click access to Salesforce records or websites.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d60110e56 ">To link from dashboard widgets:</td>
            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d60110e56 ">Create and Customize Dashboards</td>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d60110e56 ">To link from dashboard widgets in dynamic dashboards:</td>
            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d60110e56 ">Manage Dynamic Dashboards</td>
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Linking from dashboard widgets helps viewers turn insights into actions.

1. Add a dashboard widget by clicking **\+ Widget**, or edit an existing one by clicking **![the pencil icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-analytics-264-0-0-production-enus/295fead5-b71d-4e1c-9886-4af4d53400b6/analytics/images/rd/rd_icon_pencil.png)** on the widget.
2. From the Add Component or Edit Component menu, in **Custom Link**, enter a link destination.
    
    ![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-analytics-264-0-0-production-enus/295fead5-b71d-4e1c-9886-4af4d53400b6/images/icon_important.png)
    
    Important
    
    Depending on whether you link to a destination in Salesforce or to another website, the destination you enter in **Custom Link** must follow certain conventions. Unless you append `https://` or `http://` or `www.`, the destination you enter gets pasted to the end of your Salesforce org’s domain (for example, `https://MyDomainName.my.salesforce.com/`). If you enter `abc`, then your component links to `https://MyDomainName.my.salesforce.com/abc`. Appending `https://` or `http://` or `www.` lets Salesforce recognize that you intend to link to a specific website.
    
    This convention means that linking to `heroku.com` doesn’t take you to the Heroku website. Instead, it navigates you to `https://MyDomainName.my.salesforce.com/heroku.com`. To navigate to the Heroku website, enter `https://www.heroku.com/`.
    
    Example: Link Somewhere Inside Salesforce
    
    To link to the Opportunities tab, enter `/lightning/o/Opportunity/list`.
    
    Example: Link to Another Website
    
    To link to Heroku, as described in the prior note, enter `https://www.heroku.com/`.
3. To add a tooltip, select **URL** from the Link To menu, and go to Tooltip.
    1. **None** disables the tooltip when hovering over the link widget. **Default** displays a link to an external url. **Custom** displays user-defined text. The tooltip isn't displayed if no text is added.
4. If adding a widget, click **Add**. Or, if editing an existing widget, click **Update**.
5. Click **Save**.

After dashboard viewers expand your linked widget, they can visit the link by clicking **![Visit link icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-analytics-264-0-0-production-enus/295fead5-b71d-4e1c-9886-4af4d53400b6/analytics/images/rd/rd_icon_dashboards_custom_link.png)**.