Add a Navigation Action to a Visualization

Embed navigation actions into your Tableau Next visualization. The navigate action allows users to navigate to external sites with clickable links directly in a visualization data field.

Required Editions

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User Permissions Needed
To edit Tableau Next visualizations:	Tableau Unmetered Platform Analyst or Tableau Next Platform Analyst permission set

1. Select Navigate to as the action type.
2. Select a data field to add the action to.
3. Use URL Address to specify the destination URL.
   The URL must start with one of the following prefixes: http, https, ftp, mailto, news, gopher, tsc, tsl, sms, or tel.
4. To create a dynamic URL, select data fields from Insert Fields.
   Each data field value is appended to the URL. For example, to take the user to details for a state.
   1. Add the action to the State field and enter a URL Address of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.
   2. Insert the State field from the visualization.
   3. When the user clicks on a state field with the value California, the dynamic URL generated is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California.
5. To verify the URL works as expected, click Test URL.
6. Define the action label the user sees when they click on the field, for example, Open URL.