Adding a Tracking Field and URL Links to the M_TickerTracker Metric

A metric also has an optional type of field, called a tracking field, where you can add more information related to the metric.

Procedure

  1. Open the M_TickerTracker metric in the Metric editor.
  2. To add an External URL Link, double-click the URL Link field, in the row for the Ticker metric field. You see the URL Information Editor.
    1. In the Name field, type Financial Info.
    2. In the Link field, enter the following string: 
      http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=${VAR:Ticker}
  3. To add an Internal URL Link, add a field called CompanyName, in the Tracking Field section.
  4. In the row for the CompanyName tracking field, double-click the URL Link field to open the URL Information Editor.

    In the URL string, you specify a match between the Symbol property in the Company concept and the Ticker field in the M_TickerTracker metric.

    1. In the Name field, type Company Info.
    2. In the Link field, enter the following string: 
      /page.html?stoken=${USR:TOKEN}&pagetype=SearchPage &typename=/Concepts/Company&Symbol=${VAR:Ticker}
  5. Save the resource.

Result

Postrequisites

You have added a metric and configured URL links to add extra information resources for Dashboard users. Next you will add a data source that will query metric instance stored in the cache and return data to display in the dashboard.