# Perspective table of hyperlinks - table displays the HTML rather than a link

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**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-of-hyperlinks-table-displays-the-html-rather-than-a-link/41210 "2020-12-04T16:09:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-of-hyperlinks-table-displays-the-html-rather-than-a-link/41210/24 "2023-06-06T22:06:01Z")

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When the Table sends values to the View rendered within the cell for a given row, it essentially pulls out the value of the key for the column which is rendering the View.

You can think of it like accessing a dictionary. Let's look at two examples:

1. A more complex entry, where the field in question contains an object with multiple keys

```auto
# more complex data entries:
row_data = {
    "bay": 1,
    "t_stamp": 0111542846172,
    "link": {"text": "Click Me", "url": "http://google/com"}
}
value = row_data.get("link")
# result
# value === {"text": "Click Me", "url": "http://google.com"}

```

In this instance, when the View being used for the cell is built, the params object is merged with the `value` dictionary, resulting in _two_ defined params ("text" and "url"), along with whatever default params the View has configured.

1. A super-simple entry like your scenario, where the value to be sent to the View is a plain value.

```auto
row_data = {
    "BATCH_NO": 1,
    "VESSEL_NAME": "XYZ",
    "PDFURL": "http://something.com/somethingElse"
}
value = row_data.get("PDFURL")
# result
# value === "http://something.com/somethingElse"

```

Here, value is a primitive (plain) value with no keys. Well, we can't very well merge that with the param dictionary of the View because they're different types. So we make a new dictionary with a key of `value` and assign this primitive to the key. As a result, the View used for rendering the cell has a dictionary with one key (value) merged into its existing param entries.

In your case, you specified a `url` param in the View to be rendered in the cell, but nowhere in this chain of events did you configure your data to have a `url` key at any level of your data structure.

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