Creating Tabbed Dashboards in Looker Core

[sokpara]

Subject: Need Help Creating Tabbed Dashboards in Looker

Hi everyone,

I've been working on creating tabbed dashboards in Looker and I've been struggling to find documentation on how to accomplish this. I tried following a recent guide at https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/components-example, but unfortunately, that method didn't work for me. I also attempted to use Liquid HTML, but the Looker dashboard interface has changed a lot, and most of the tabs mentioned in the documentation have been removed. I need help finding easy implementation steps or templates that I can use to create tabbed dashboard reports. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[GavinW]

If you can't use the components approach, then you can simulate tabs by using a markdown tile with HTML links in it as a menu bar, or you can even use the approach as seen in this video using dummy dimensions that act as HTML links.

[sokpara]

Hey @GavinW, unfortunately, the HTML tiles or tile options no longer exist in Looker. They were in beta 2 years ago but seem to have been removed as of today. I may be wrong, or maybe they have been renamed to something else. If you can find it, please share.

[GavinW]

Ah, my apologies - the tile type you want to use now are called 'markdown tiles'. Everything else should work the same as the linked article.

[sokpara]

Thanks @GavinW , I can't find the "markdown tile" in Develop mode, I also have admin access on Looker. Can you please share a screenshot of its location?

[GavinW · Accepted solution]

You can see how you can add markdown tiles to a user-defined dashboard here, by clicking on 'Add' on the top left when in edit mode on a dashboard:

[sokpara]

Great! I can now locate it. Thank you! Now, I need to figure out how to embed the reports into the tiles created using the markdowns.