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Wenchang Han on 03 Dec 2014 07:59:45

Currently have to spell out the entire URL to enable hyperlink. Is it possible to give a short name to a URL with hyperlink enabled?

Administrator on 07 Apr 2020 06:32:02

You can do this! A few months back we shipped the ability to format a column in a table as a hyperlink that gets its URL from a different measure or column: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/power-bi-hyperlinks-in-tables Thanks for your votes!

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David Daniele on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:20

RE: Short URL with display text

This has been under review for almost 4 years now. Is there any update?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:27:06

RE: Short URL with display text

Or create a friendly name like excel

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Katy Ionis on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:15

RE: Short URL with display text

Is there an update on this feature? This is very basic functionality to edit the display text for a hyperlink. For a visual tool it's critical not to waste space with extra fields that could easily be collapsed into one field.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:19

RE: Short URL with display text

This is really useful, i like it! https://goo.gl/7nEDFc

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Weiliang Pan on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:33

RE: Short URL with display text

This is very useful so that we can open project page directly from PowerBI

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:31

RE: Short URL with display text

I see it's been under review since Dec 4, 2014, can we get a real update?

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Rajkumar on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:29

RE: Short URL with display text

Refer the below link .. its very helpful.

http://analyticsavenue.com/power-bi-shorten-hyperlink-url/

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Brian Searle on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:23

RE: Short URL with display text

The hyperlink icon is ok. It would be better to have a function like HYPERLINK in Excel. Then you can save space in tables with less columns. I have a table with 2 URLs and a third might be added. The hyperlink icon columns take up space over other more important columns.

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Curtis Elliott on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:22

RE: Short URL with display text

This is so simple yet so useful, can't come soon enough!

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Michael Coleman on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:50

RE: Short URL with display text

This is a simple thing but critical to making report content manageable when including tables and matrix in the reeport. Equally important is the ability to import hyperlinks embedded in text from data sources such as SharePoint lists, Excel, etc.