Creating and editing WebView widget parameters

You can use parameter connections to link widgets on a dashboard. For WebView widgets, you create the parameters from parts of the URL. For example, if the URL contained location information, you could make a location parameter from that part of the URL and use it in communication between widgets. Unlike report parameters, WebView parameters are not automatically added to a parameter connection.

See Widget communication.

WebView parameters replace part of the URL with ${parameter_name}. You can make parameters from a URL, or you can paste in a URL which already contains parameters in the required format. You can also use the Link icon to reuse parameters. For example, if you have used the parameters of a URL in a parameter connection but the URL then needs to be changed, you can use Link instead of remaking parameters for the new URL and then recreating the parameter connection.

  1. Click Edit Dashboard to enable edit mode.
  2. Place the mouse pointer over the WebView widget to display its toolbar and click Properties.
  3. Specify the URL.
  4. Click URL Parameters.
    If you paste in a URL which contains parameters, the parameters are automatically detected when you click URL Parameters. If you click URL Parameters and then paste in the URL, the parameters are not automatically detected. Instead, click Detect Parameters.
  5. Select the part of the URL to use and click Make Parameter.
  6. Specify the default value of the parameter.
    In the URL, the parameter is replaced by the default value.
  7. To reuse a parameter in another part of the URL, select the text to replace and click the Link icon. To copy a parameter to the end of the URL, place the cursor at the end of the URL and click Link.
  8. To delete a parameter, click Delete.
  9. Click OK.
Parent topic: Widget communication