Can Dashboards support hyperlinks with text fragments?

SaraSiskavich — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:56:14 GMT

We want to refer our audience to particular portions of an externally-maintained Community Profile website. For example:

Click on a town, the popup contains a link to Utility Service Providers which is stored as a URL attribute:

https://www2.nhes.nh.gov/GraniteStats/SessionServlet?page=Community.jsp&SID=1&city=000619&cityName=Merrimack#:~:text=Utilities

The text fragment #:~:text=Utilities brings the user to the right section of the profile and highlights it, kinda like an anchor would do. Pretty neat.

Our web map popups work: https://nashuarpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=dc1c8b514bac4d9ca32a882d4eaa987d

But the same popup links published in the dashboard do not work, either through the popup window or through the info widget.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/b226f9f020d6425884a15d62dd901632

Is this an undocumented limitation of dashboards? What's disappointing is that I can write click the links in the dashboard, open in new tab, and the text fragement will work.

Re: Can Dashboards support hyperlinks with text fragments?

SaraSiskavich — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:21:09 GMT

I pursued this with ESRI: that sashboards can't launch links with text fragments has now been captured as BUG-000180455. They are still investigating, but I think it might have to do with Dashboards not launching links with "rel=noopener" attribute, nor can you add it into the source code. Boo.

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