Using Data Links To Link A Cell To A Unique URL

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I have a 5 column table. I want to link each cell to a unique URL. I’ve tried using data links. But, for me, it links all the values in my columns to one specific link. So, how do I use overwrites, and data links to link, for example, the cell on row two, column 3, to a specific URL? Thanks.

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you can set links on fields, and a field is basically a column. so if your data in each field is unique you can configure unique links. you can also combine fields to make fields more unique, like a row number for example:

you can see an example on the last panel below, each forum post number is unique, so this makes each link specific:

https://play.grafana.org/d/6Hg9LVd4z/grafana-community-forum-category-response-rate?var-category=60&var-start=2023-05-01&var-end=2023-08-01

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Thank you for your response. However, I’m still unsure how to practically implement custom links. In the example you shared, the data link takes a generic URL and appends the values within a cell of a column to create the custom URL. In my case, I want to hard-code a unique URL for each value within a cell. For example, I want the value in column A, row 2, to equal one custom URL, and the value in column A, row 3, to be set to a different custom URL. How do I practically implement this?

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can you share a table view of your data?

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Yes, sure. Here’s a table view. I want to set each link under the column “Runbook”, to a unique URL.

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and can you provide an example url you would like the link to point to?

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Any URL can be used, to demonstrate the functionality. I will replace with my own custom, internal URL. So, you can use: https://www.example.com/123, https://www.example.com/456, etc.

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you can specify the field to be part of your link:

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I don’t want the field to be part of my link. I want to link a cell to a custom URL, just like one would if they were using Google Sheets, or Excel. Is that doable within Grafana?

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grafana is not excel or google sheets where you can just highlight a cell and then link it.

so if you know your url is:

http://example.com

and you know your runbooks are named ABC, DEF, XYZ etc.

then you can link each field/cell to http://example.com/ABC using the url and the field value, or field name, using an override on name or value.

but you can’t just select one field and make it a link.