Table right-click

svickers · 08-20-2024 06:29 PM

We have a lot of dimensions that are comprised of html values that have anchor tags in them that we use to navigate to different dashboards. Recently right-clicking in any table has stopped working completely.... So you can't select open in a new tab, which is heavily used. Ctrl+Click still works for opening a new tab but any right-click functionality appears to be blocked. I couldn't find any mention of this in release notes, but would be nice if it came back.

sam8

When I right-click a value in a table, I get several options specific to Looker Studio:

Perhaps this is why the right clicking is being blocked? Do you see these as well?

svickers

No context menu shows up..this is for looker classic BTW and not studio.

sam8

Oh! My bad.

I tested on Looker version 24.14 and right-clicking seems to work fine.

My LookML was very basic:

dimension: zip {
  type: zipcode
  sql: ${TABLE}.zip ;;
  html: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps?q=((value))">((value))</a> ;;
}

Note: Replace the (( with {{ of course - the Community platform just doesn't like the double curly brackets.

Does your LookML look similar? Is your version also 24.14?

sam8

Also worth noting I'm using Google Chrome for my browser!

svickers

We are on 24.12 currently but this definitely worked until recently. It looks like you might be clicking on the results table (which works for me as well), but try clicking on the value in the table viz instead.

sam8

Oh yep, you're right. Right-clicking doesn't work on the viz.

I went and tested on some previous versions, and I can't find any version where right-clicking does work on the viz. I went as far back as 23.14 and it still isn't working. I'm really curious what you did that was making it work!

As an aside, I was thinking about ways you could manage links without needing the control key, and the link parameter came to mind!