Clicking points on a scatter plot and openning a new tab

[gfreches]

Hey there. I have a box plot representing some quality control metrics. Every point there represents one measurement for which i have individual html reports. I would like to click on the outlier points and have that link to the individual reports but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to do it.
Thanks in advance!

[Blaceus]

You can use the click-event property of a graph to construct an appropriate callback, see:

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If each point in the graph has some unique ID you can use this in the callback to trigger an opening of a new tab, see:

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