Allow a URL dimension to be the hyperlink URLs for a non-URL dimension

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As much as I love being able to hyperlink dimensions in a freeform table, this is only limited to either:

Having a URL-based dimension so you can allow Adobe Analytics to create hyperlinks for all rows or
Manually enter the URL for each row

(There is an option to create a dynamic URL string, but that requires the dimension having direct ties to the URL.)

It would be nice to designate a URL dimension (for example, evar1 Page URL) as the destination link for the corresponding non-URL dimension currently chosen in the freeform table (for example, evar2 Page Title). This would be helpful if users are looking at Page Title or Video Names and want to know more about the page content that may influence the KPIs they are seeing.

Josh Stephens

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@kayawalton you can actually use a breakdown dimension to generate your hyper link. For example, let's say your dimension is product & your metric is product views. You could use the breakdown dimension of clean url in building the hyperlinks. The top clean url will be used to create the link. (I have noticed that there can be a pretty long delay after clicking on the link as the top breakdown value is determined.)

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kayawalton

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@Josh__Stephens -- I just tested that and IT WORKED! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I had read the note in the little pop-up and misunderstood it. I though it would show the URL as a breakdown dimension.

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Josh Stephens

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Awesome, glad it worked @kayawalton!

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