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When a URL action gets triggered in Curator, there are different settings that allow Curator to handle these actions in a more sophisticated manner directing your users to the location they want to end up without much intervention in the middle. You can find a description of the available options at the bottom of this page.
  1. Login to the backend of your Curator instance (e.g. https://www.curatorexample.com/backend).
  2. Navigate to the Tableau > Dashboards section from the left-hand menu.
  3. Click the Dashboard you’d like to edit from the list page.
  4. Under the “Advanced” tab, look for the Embedded Options section.
  5. Chang the Link Target field to the desired option (see below for descriptions)
  6. Click the “Save” button.

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Available Options

Default By default, Curator handles the URL as defined in the Tableau Dashboard. Self The URL Action defined in the Tableau Dashboard will load within the embedded frame on the page keeping the user in the same location. Parent The URL Action defined in the Tableau Dashboard will change the location of the current browser tab the user is on navigating them away from the current page. Blank The URL Action defined in the Tableau Dashboard will open in a new browser tab. Curator Detect Curator will look at the value of the URL you have defined in your Dashboard’s URL Action and if it is a Dashboard that is hosted on the Tableau Server your Curator instance is connected to, it will look to see if that Dashboard is available in the current user’s navigation within Curator. If accessible, it will direct them to the Curator page where that Dashboard is hosted in the same browser tab. If not, it will direct them to the URL opening up a new browser tab. Curator Detect New Tab The same behavior as Curator Detect, only in both scenarios it opens up a new tab.

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Passing Filters through URL Actions

When passing filters through URL Actions on a Tableau Dashboard, Tableau has good documentation on how to set this up here. When you want to enable your users to send multiple values apply the following settings to your URL Action in Tableau and Curator will pick up the values correctly:
  1. Open the Data Valuessection below the URL field in the URL Action dialog in Tableau.
  2. Check the box for Encode data values that URLs do not support.
  3. Check the box for Allow multiple values via URL parameters.
  4. Set the Value Delimiter to be three pipes (|||).
  5. Set the Delimiter Escape Character to be a backslash (\).
  6. Click OK to save the URL Action and publish your Dashboard to Tableau Server.