How to reach Help Center for Looker Studio vs Looker
TL;DR; Please note that Looker Studio (formally known as Data Studio) is a distinct product from Looker. This ...
Administering Looker
Whether you’re setting up your Looker instance for the first time, orchestrating an administrative overhaul, dealing with day to day operations, or anything in between, this is the spot for discussion and best practices.
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Looker AngularJS version
Can anyone please provide me with the current version of AngularJS used by Looker?Thanks!
Where can I find permission descriptions?
Hi all!When creating a permission set, I see all of the permissions that are applicable. When I hover over the...
Please stabilise IP address changes for Looker allowlists
I track the “Enabling secure database access” page on the Looker docs, as part of maintaining a Terraform modu...
Sharing a Dashboard with Internal Team - Auto-Run Updates
I’m looking to provide a team with the capabilities of having their dashboard on a TV screen for real-time upd...
Deploy Security Objects (Roles and Groups) from Dev to QA using GIT
I would like to create and test security Roles and Groups in Dev and Deploy them to QA using GIT. Are there an...
How do I customize the menu bar and/or the login page colors?
Hello,We recently updated to Looker 21.18.17 and the background color of the menu bar was updated to white cau...
Launching chatbot for Looker support chat widget
Disclaimer: The chatbot is only accessible to users who are permitted to use chats; there’s no change in our c...
Unable to see data on dashboard after sharing to a internal user
Hi All,Being an Admin to Looker, created a dashboard and shared to Internal user.After providing full permissi...
What kind of access does a business user need
Hi Team,I have few queries. Kindly assist - considering a business userWhat kind of access does a business use...
Terminate schedule after a certain date
I’m wondering if anyone has found a way to end a schedules delivery after a certain date. I can use the API to...
Running Looker behind a proxy server or load balancer
There are a few issues that can be caused by load balancers. First, if the timeout is too short on the load ba...
Best practices for scheduled reports to external stakeholders?
Hello, We’re considering allowing our users to schedule report delivery to external stakeholders. We’d like to...
Pricing
Price and kind of licences?
Setting up Azure AD SSO with Looker
These are the steps which we have found with customers to be successful in setting up SSO for your Looker inst...
What does `Error: Your scheduled job failed because the results stored in cache were expired or invalid. To resolve, please retry your schedule or wait until the next scheduled job.` mean on my failed schedule delivery?
TL:DR: The cached results for the queries expired before Looker was able to send out the results. This commonl...
why access_filter disappears in production mode?
Hi there,I defined an access_filter for an explore to restrict data of my dashboard for each user. But, the ac...
Customer dimensions/measure should be managed under a separate permission from create_table_calcuation
The new custom fields feature looks great.However, it doesn’t make sense that both this feature, and the exist...
Blank screen on Looker connect
Hi,when I am trying to login on connect.looker.com only blank screen appears and I cannot either login or do a...
Restricting user access to data in the dashboard
Hi all.In the dashboard I have a dimension/filter “City” with several cities in it: London, Barcelona, Paris. ...
Download permission
Hi,I'm currently working on some dashboards and reports. Users will be able to download the data, and to make ...
Pinning folders / folder shortcuts
Hi, is there a way to pin multiple folders to the navigation menu on the left (e.g. into area with red arrow)?...
Use of verify_ssl=False in the looker.ini file is not working as expected
Appreciate insights and assistance. I am using ‘verify_ssl=False’ as documented in:https://community.looker.co...
Unable to Disable SSL in a "On Prem" (self-hosted) Looker 21.10.15
Hi.I am trying to disable SSL (temporarily) at my On Prem (self hosted) deployment of Looker (v21.10.15)I have...
Non-Admin Users re-assigning schedules to another Looker User
A Looker Admin can re-assign a Scheduled Report from one Looker User to another.What about the case where a Lo...
Admin is not seeing the same projects/models.
One of our admins only sees 2 projects out of the 5 available. The models also show that they are not configur...
Connecting to redshift cluster
Hi, I have created a new redshift cluster. I am trying to connect to the cluster in looker. I have created a v...
Does Looker connect to none SQL data sources, like GCP's Datastore?
We have a large GCP Datastore database and need to interrogate it. We would like to know if Looker will connec...
TLSv1.2 enabled by default in 21.8
Starting in Looker 21.8, we are now updating the default TLS option for connections using the MariaDB JDBC dri...
Installation of Looker on Clustered Environment
Hi All,I am trying to Install in cluster environment. Backend Db is “MYSQL 5.7.34-google-log”. Looker applicat...
Schedule dashboard from different folder
I am trying to schedule 4 different dashboards (4 accounts) with 1 account. I can see and edit all 4 dashboard...
