From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards

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Adding a webpage to a dashboard

Adding a webpage to a dashboard

- [Instructor] All dashboards are showing data from some kind of data source that's been visualized. But you can also show other things in a dashboard. And one of those things is a webpage. Now, this can be quite useful because there could be more information held within a webpage that you want to show, but you don't actually have the data for it and it doesn't lend itself to being visualized. So how can we get webpages embedded into our dashboards? Well, it's really easy. So we can add a webpage object and give it a URL, and the webpage will just be embedded in our dashboard. So for example, let's just see how that mechanism works. So using my dashboard here, I want to add a webpage in the bottom right hand corner. So I can go to the webpage option in my objects and I can drag it into my view. So let's pop it to the right hand side of my profit timeline, rank field, and it asks me for a URL. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pop in Landon Hotel, click okay, and tab will go and…

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