Create clickable links for dimensions

Description

If I have a dimension with a Hubspot id or a GitHub pull request, I’d like to be able to click the dimension value and be linked to an external website for that resource!

E.g. something like this in the .yml files:

columns:
  name: screen_id
    meta:
      dimension: 
        url: "github.com/lightdash/screens/${screen_id}"

• you can add constants for the URL
• OR you can add some variable for the URL (e.g. here, I added the screen_id to the end of the URL)

[owlas]

Awesome! So if it’s in the context menu, let’s go with the multiple urls approach? Where it doesn’t actually change the formatting of the dimension but will add some actions you can take from the context menu.

We’ll also have to add that along with the other context menus on charts etc.

[ZeRego]

I could see the value down the road. But for our use case it is not a priority. I am not a skilled software developer, and I do not have the full overview of Lightdash. So take what I say with a huge grain of salt. My gut feeling is that decisions like this, at this stage of development, might create issues later in development.

@Martin-Carlsson The user can always use SQL to achieve such advanced use cases. SQL handles logic and we handle formatting.

E.g:

- name: custom_url
   meta:
     dimension:
        type: string
        sql: IF(user_id<1000, "https://example.com", "https://another-example.com");
        format: 'markdown'
        markdownTemplate:  "[Click my custom url](${custom_url})"