Concerns with the new Field Picker UI

[Siddhaarth_S]

We tried switching to the new Looker Field Picker UI.

While the In Use feature was really useful, we found the overall experience a bit buggy and have temporarily rolled it back on our code base.

A few concerns include:

• Truncation of fields names;
  The new field picker UI appears to be limiting each field to a single line of text. If it cannot be displayed, it truncates the text. This makes it very difficult to identify the field that needs to be picked especially in dimension groups like shown in picture. There doesn’t appear to be any way to expand the field picker box as well. This caused a lot of confusion among users trying to choose a field from the explore.

• The loss of hover over tool tip feature:
  t. Now, we have to click on the i to view it and it appears along with the SQL logic which I feel is redundant for most of our business users who primarily are users of the explores

The field truncation is especially a sore point since it would result in us having to retroactively change field names in a lot of our code to make it appear within one line. In some cases, this might not even be feasible since the name of the field can’t be reduced any further.

Are anyone else facing these same issues?

Can someone from Looker Product , help suggest ways to mitigate this? Are there any fixes to these issues in the pipeline? Will we be able to stick with the old Field Picker UI?