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# URL Action Overrides (Link Target)

> Configure URL actions in Tableau dashboards to control link behavior and user navigation within Curator.

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.

## Set the Link Target

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.

### Set the Link Target for Every Dashboard

Rather than editing each Dashboard, you can set one Link Target for the whole portal:

1. Login to the backend of your Curator instance (e.g. `https://www.curatorexample.com/backend`).
2. Navigate to **Settings** > **Tableau** > **Tableau Server Settings**.
3. On the "General" tab, look for the *Dashboard Display* section.
4. Change the **Global Link Target** field to the desired option (see below for descriptions).
5. Click the "Save" button.

**Individually by Dashboard** is the default, and it leaves every Dashboard on its own Link Target. Any other
value overrides every Dashboard, whatever each one has stored. While the override is active, the Link Target
field on the Dashboard is read-only, shows the global value, and displays a *Tableau Server Settings Override.*
link back to this setting.

The global value is never written onto your Dashboards, so setting **Global Link Target** back to
**Individually by Dashboard** restores each Dashboard's own value.

**Note:** *Curator Detect* and *Curator Detect New Tab* are only available on Tableau 2020 and later. If the
global setting holds an option your Tableau Server does not support, the Dashboard keeps using its own Link
Target instead.

### 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.

### 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](https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-gb/actions_url.htm?source=productlink#Using). 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](https://docs.curator.interworks.com/embedding_using_analytics/tableau_dashboards/cross_dashboard_navigation_url_actions.md).


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