# Dashboard links requires vega.enableExternalUrls: true

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-links-requires-vega-enableexternalurls-true/209675
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** vega
**Created:** [November 27, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-links-requires-vega-enableexternalurls-true/209675 "2019-11-27T12:01:04Z")
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### Author: ![DavidKHE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/47e85d/32.png) [@DavidKHE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidKHE)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2019, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-links-requires-vega-enableexternalurls-true/209675/2 "2019-11-28T08:49:42Z")

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@joshdover - I seen another topic on similar subject, you kindly offered help.

May I ask your help here? is there maybe additional information I could provide?

> [@External URLs - Vega in hosted Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/external-urls-vega-in-hosted-kibana/193664):
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> Hello, I'm pretty new to Kibana and to Vega / Vega-lite in particularity, so I apologize if the question is somehow stupid, but I could't find a solution online. So I'm trying to the Vega visualization interface in my hosted Kibana (Elastic Cloud), but keep getting this error: "External URLs are not enabled. Add vega.enableExternalUrls: true to kibana.yml". I went through the Kibana documentation and but couldn't understand how do I edit the kibana.yml file. Any instruction o…

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