# URL Link on Dashboard

**URL:** <https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280>\
**Category:** Kinetic ERP\
**Tags:** dashboard\
**Created:** [October 20, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280 "2023-10-20T18:49:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280/1 "2023-10-20T18:49:21Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am have a BAQ that has part information and I was able to add the drawing path on to the BAQ.

So it reads:

**Part**** Description **** Drawing ****URL**  
123-4 Forge Assembly 123-4 //AC/part/123-4.PDF

It displays on the report and even the dashboard, but I would like the link to bring up the PDF when clicked on. Is there a way to make this work?

Thanks In Advance.

Miguel Lopez

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**Author:** ![matt-s](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/matt-s/32/56203_2.png) [@matt-s](https://www.epiusers.help/u/matt-s)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280/2 "2023-10-20T19:34:53Z")

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First thing I thought of was to just wrap the URL in some HTML and throw it in a calculated field, but I’ll save you some time: that doesn’t work. Though I have gotten Kinetic to parse HTML inside custom alerts before, it will never let you render HTML in a column.

Second thing I thought was just do the same thing, write out a calculated field that prints a URL, and use a browser extension such as Linkificator to convert those to clickable links. This worked well enough for me but there are some caveats. Doesn’t play nice with spaces, is a third-party tool, is only available for Firefox, your organization might not let you install this, etc.

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**Author:** ![spedding84](https://www.epiusers.help/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@spedding84](https://www.epiusers.help/u/spedding84)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280/3 "2023-10-21T23:35:39Z")

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We do this in classic. I don’t know if that’s what you use and will help you but…

You have to change the Winforms to recognize the column in the grid as a URL.

We do this in dashboards by using the following code:

```auto
private void MainController_Load(object sender, EventArgs args)
       {
          grid1.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Columns["Calculated_pdfurl"].Style = Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.ColumnStyle.URL; 
		grid1.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Columns["Calculated_picurl"].Style = Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.ColumnStyle.URL;   
       }
}

```

This changes the two calculated columns named Calculated\_pfdurl and Calculated\_picurl in grid1 to hyperlinks like shown:

 ![Screenshot 2023-10-21 193049](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/6/9/6941cd46ff3098d7ba3de3b3728c0204a87e4d4a.png)

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**Author:** ![gpayne](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/gpayne/32/55751_2.png) [@gpayne](https://www.epiusers.help/u/gpayne)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280/4 "2023-10-22T13:59:45Z")

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This KB shows how to use the URL/XSLT view feature in a dashboard. KB0034968

[https://epiccare.epicor.com/epiccare?id=epiccare\_kb\_article&sys\_id=c70d4b54db8b3e40b3227e09af9619a5](https://epiccare.epicor.com/epiccare?id=epiccare_kb_article&sys_id=c70d4b54db8b3e40b3227e09af9619a5)

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**Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280/5 "2023-10-30T19:58:32Z")

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Hello Greg,  
I am going through the document you sent me. How do I add the highlighted section to work?  
 ![image](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/8/b/8b975b05a5a57541a8ec907ef49a9e62a6d1545a.png)

This is my example below:

![image](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/c/6/c63bd5dabfef04e2131385bd6f615fe02e1f04f4.png)

I click on the paper sheet next to X and don’t get the option to select a file.

Thanks in Advance.  
Miguel

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**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/url-link-on-dashboard/108280/6 "2023-10-31T02:33:34Z")

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Here is mine. I don’t have anything there.

You publish from the query and use a URL View.  
 ![image](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/9/5/951af43bbcea21b926badd3bbeb4d41749ad8bd7.png)

 ![image](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/3/7/3723e45062a8caf297fce6b22138c5ed134ed4af.png)

 ![image](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/3/8/38a671888543fd1a5f562a053cab93ce4ee8480a.png)  
 ![image](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/d/5/d514e81be3f46bd6a05e05f1e8527da76ab656a9.png)  
As you click on the row the PDF below changes.

 ![image](https://www.epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/1/7/17f654fb22800fbe3335e8ab79d4c681fb262a9e.png)