Contact or Custom List - How to: Checkbox Results Link to Other Sharepoint Sites or Pages

Question

Hi,
I am building a fairly simple employee contact list with the following column headers: Employee Name, Location, Department. For the location and department I am using the checkbox option with preset options (location: California, Nevada, etc. department:
sales, HR, etc.). My hope is that once a new employee is entered and the checkboxes choosen, that the new results would have clickable links that would take them to the larger group (page or site).
Example:
A new employee joins the company, Mary Beth, the HR person adds the info of the employee in the contact list, once updated you see the following:
Craig Johnson | Florida| Operations, Sales |
Mary Beth | California | HR, Sales |
Sam Smith | New York | Compliance |
California can be clicked on, that would go to the California page that has that locations info and employee list for that state. If you click on Sales, that would go to the Sales page that has the sales teams info and employee list.
Any ideas on how to make the checkbox results show up as clickable links? (Preferably as simple as possible, I am still figuring sharepoint out)
Thank you.

Answer 1

Automated approach:
Create a new lookup list, Locations, and populate with locations
Add a new column to Contacts list of type URL. Call it Location (or whatever)
Add a new column to Contacts list of type Lookup, pointing to Locations list.  Call it Select.
Create a new 2010 workflow that triggers on change
In this workflow, build a series of "Else Ifs" that check for the various locations available.  if one matches, the Set function is executed for that ElseIf branch
For any specific location, set the "Location" column to: "YourURLForThatLocation," + TheSelectColumnValueInCurrentItem"
Create a new view, make it the default, so that it displays the Location column but not the Select column. 
Add appropriate descriptions to the Select and Location columns to guide users on which ones to use and not use and how.
Note: when using a workflow to set the value of a URL column, you must separate the two values of this column with a ",".  no other special characters or values.  Just two values separated by a comma.