generate column-pointed URL

Expected Behavior or Use Case

Currently, the URL is created per table. For instance, when we have a table in Postgres with

• database : test_db
• schema : test_schema
• table: test_table
• columns:
  • test_column1
  • test_column2 ⋮

https://amundsen.something.com/table_detail/test_db/postgres/test_schema/test_table

But I just thought it would be better if we can add one more level, i.e. column to it so that the URL becomes

https://amundsen.something.com/table_detail/test_db/postgres/test_schema/test_table/test_column1

Service or Ingestion ETL

I think frontend maybe?

Possible Implementation

Example Screenshots (if appropriate):

Context

I received a feedback from one of my colleagues asking whether this is possible. He wanted to share a URL of specific table with more than 20 columns to another colleague. Given the number of columns, it seemed better to have an anchor link per column so that by opening the link it lands on the column directly.

[jornh]

A new URL would direct to a new page, and we don’t have plans to expose individual pages for columns so they aren’t something that can be linked to.

@ttannis agree 💯 that introducing individual pages for columns would be undesirable. It doesn’t have to be implemented with that tough.

If those deep links were in the form of # fragment links like https://amundsen.something.com/table_detail/test_db/postgres/test_schema/test_table#test_column1 it could just work as “scroll this column into view” - preferably with a visual highlight effect. E.g. column filtering as you suggest would make it very clear, but depending on filter UI Implementation could also have a risk of misleading the person receiving the deep link that the given table only has this one column because they didn’t apply the filter themselves.

The deep links could be added to notifications sent out on “request info on column level”.

A little more context here on Slack

[ttannis]

Thanks @jornh Will get some additional eyes on this from maintainers to ensure my perspective alone doesn’t make the call here.