• Created by Unknown User (jonakaa), last modified on 28.06.2020

As of now, only some of the more unkown possibilities in Google Data Studio will be displayed here, but we are more than happy to expand the tutorial to include beginning activities as well. If you would like to see this, please let us know by leaving a post on our forum or send us a mail.

Google Data Studio will for simplicity be denoted as GDS in this tutorial.

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Buttons are currently (July 2020) not available in GDS as an individual feature, so to bypass this, we will make use of the Insert Link option when using Text Boxes.

In the first example we will enable the viewer to click on a logo, in order to view their webpage. Our chosen logo and webpage will both represent NTNU, but this method could of course be applied using any image, text box or similar.

  1. First, insert the image to your page.
  2. Next, make a text box just large enough to cover your image, and fill it with a letter or number, e.g. "8".
  3. Now, highlight the text and choose Insert Link in the Text Properties.
  4. Insert your chosen link, and if desired, check the box for Open link in new tab. Click Apply.
  5. Now the link is inserted. To test it, enter view mode and click on the image. However, we now have a bunch of 8's covering our image. To bypass this, change the Opacity of the text box with 8's to 0% (making it completely transparent).
  6. Your very first button is now finished! To give it a test, enter view mode and click on it.
  7. Pro tip: When moving the button, remember to select both layers (the image/text and the transparent link) at once. This makes it a lot easier to move the button without having to think about perfectly reloacting them at the new location.




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