# Insight Columns Showing as Links

**URL:** <https://forums.pega.com/t/insight-columns-showing-as-links/12993>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 3, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/insight-columns-showing-as-links/12993 "2026-08-03T17:13:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![HalynaK2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/pega/user_avatar/forums.pega.com/halynak2/32/22468_2.png) [@HalynaK2](https://forums.pega.com/u/HalynaK2)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/insight-columns-showing-as-links/12993/1 "2026-08-03T17:13:07Z")

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Hi everyone,

I have created an Insight with several columns, and I noticed that the first two columns are displayed as links. I checked the column configuration and the **Format** option is set to **None** , yet the values still appear as hyperlinks.

Is there a way to remove this behavior? I would like these fields to be displayed as plain text rather than links.

What is confusing is that I have two different Insights: in one of them, two columns appear as links, while in the other, only one column does. I’m not sure what determines whether a column is rendered as a link or not, and how this behavior can be controlled.

Has anyone encountered this before or knows what configuration drives it?

Thanks in advance. I would really appreciate any suggestions or guidance.

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**Author:** ![JeetS17798115](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@JeetS17798115](https://forums.pega.com/u/JeetS17798115)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/insight-columns-showing-as-links/12993/2 "2026-08-04T09:32:14Z")

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Can you please share your configuration once..

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**Author:** ![garce](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/pega/user_avatar/forums.pega.com/garce/32/10253_2.png) [@garce](https://forums.pega.com/u/garce)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.pega.com/t/insight-columns-showing-as-links/12993/3 "2026-08-04T15:18:18Z")

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> [@HalynaK2](#):
>
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have created an Insight with several columns, and I noticed that the first two columns are displayed as links. I checked the column configuration and the **Format** option is set to **None** , yet the values still appear as hyperlinks.
> 
> Is there a way to remove this behavior? I would like these fields to be displayed as plain text rather than links.
> 
> What is confusing is that I have two different Insights: in one of them, two columns appear as links, while in the other, only one column does. I’m not sure what determines whether a column is rendered as a link or not, and how this behavior can be controlled.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this before or knows what configuration drives it?
> 
> Thanks in advance. I would really appreciate any suggestions or guidance.

**What’s causing the hyperlinks**

The UI automatically renders a column as a link when the underlying data response includes specific metadata “key” properties that Pega uses to construct a navigation URL. The triggering properties depend on the object type:

**Case objects** → pxObjClass, pzInsKey, and pyID  
**Data objects** → pyGUID (or parameters defined in the data designer)  
**Assignments** → pxRefObjectKey, pxRefObjectClass, and pzInsKey  
This is also why the behavior differs across your two Insights — one report’s data source includes those key properties while the other only partially does, resulting in a different number of linked columns.

**How to get plain text instead**

A few options depending on your setup:

**Mirror the value with a calculated property** — Create a calculated or secondary text property that mirrors the value you want to display. Since it lacks the key metadata, Pega won’t build a link from it. This is the cleanest workaround.

**Adjust the data source** — If the Insight pulls from a Data Page, you can exclude the key properties (e.g., pzInsKey) from the response for that specific Insight. No key properties = no link.

**Check the column config for link toggling** — Look for a setting like “enable link to the key” or “open the object” in the field/column settings. Some configurations expose a toggle for this behavior directly.

Use non-key properties — If possible, surface the display value through a property that isn’t a primary identifier, so Pega has nothing to anchor a URL to.

The calculated property approach (option 1) tends to be the most reliable if you can’t easily modify the data source.

Hope that helps unblock you — let me know if you want to dig into any of these options further!