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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. Change 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 inspects the URL produced by the URL Action and checks whether it matches a Dashboard page in the current user’s navigation within Curator. If a match is found, it directs the user to that Curator page in the same browser tab — preserving any query-string filters appended to the URL. If no match is found, it opens the URL in a new browser tab instead. 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. For a complete walkthrough of configuring a URL Action to pass filters and navigate users to a filtered Curator Dashboard, see Navigate to a Filtered Curator Dashboard via a URL Action.