OBIEE 11g : Using HTML Hyperlinks (Links) with OBIEE 11g

Using HTML Hyperlinks (Links) with OBIEE 11g

 

We can make use of HTML Hyperlinks to put links on dashboard.

Links allow users to click their way from page to page.

The HTML <a> tag defines a hyperlink.

A hyperlink (or link) is a word, group of words, or image that you can click on to jump to another document.

When you move the cursor over a link in a Web page, the arrow will turn into a little hand.

The most important attribute of the <a> element is the href attribute, which indicates the link's destination.

Syntax for HTML hyperlink is,

<a href="url">Link text</a>

For example:

Add text view in OBIEE and put following code in text view. Select ‘Contains HTML markup’

<a href=”http://bisimplified.blogspot.com”>Visit BI Simplified</a>

It will create hyperlink on dashboard as follows,

                          Visit BI Simplified

This link will open target web page within same link.

To open target page in new tab we can use following code,

<a href=”http://bisimplified.blogspot.com” target="_blank">Visit BI Simplified</a>

The link generated will be as follows,

                          Visit BI Simplified

You can allocate this link on dashboard as per your requirement using <div> tag.