Group recipients for scheduled emails (please comment if you want this!)

[peterkriss]

Hi folks,

We have groups of external users to whom we need to email Looker content. Those group memberships are managed in our own (non-Looker) configuration system and in some cases are managed by our clients directly.

We could easily sync those user groups to match corresponding groups in Looker, but one key gap remains: there is no option in Looker to add a Looker group as a recipient of a scheduled dashboard (i.e. email report).

This is critical for us and seems like a very natural feature, but the Looker team needs more clients asking for this in order to prioritize it.

Please reply here if you would use this feature. (If you’re willing, asking your account team to pass along your request to Looker’s Product team would be very helpful.)

Thanks!

Peter

P.S. An email distribution list won’t work for us here because our group definitions affect other parts of our application (and we don’t want one user to unsubscribe the whole group). Currently, we use the Looker API to send our own email, but this has created one time sink after another for our engineering team as we rebuild Looker’s native feature set.