As you probably know by know, there is no path from Advanced XML to anything current other than to re-write the dashboard. Ask 100 people how to put 30 HTML links in a dashboard and you'll probably get 100 different answers. Here's one of them. Go the Search & Reporting app and click on Dashboards. Click the Create New Dashboard button. Give the dashboard a name, click Classic, then click Create. Click the Edit button in the top-right corner of the dashboard. Click the Source button. Replace the contents with this: <dashboard version="1.1">
<label>Name of the dashboard</label>
<row>
<panel>
<html>
<p><a class="external" href="<link URL>" target="_blank">Link text</a>.</p>
</html>
</panel>
</row>
</dashboard> Repeat the <row> and/or <panel> elements as desired to create the links. Update the content of the panels, of course.
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