Using HTML and Liquid with Looker

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What is Liquid?

Liquid formatting is an open source Ruby-based template language built by Shopify (Liquid Documentation). Looker utilizes Liquid to reference values from measures and dimensions within the html parameter.

Examples in this post will be using the HTML documentation with available parameters, as well as the URL query parameters.

Common Patterns:

Note: {{ value }} in these patterns is substitutable for any other appropriate value parameter. The value type parameters are found in the HTML documentation.

Additional Topics on Liquid

• Custom Drill Using HTML and Query Parameters

• Drill using a sparkline or other images

• Drill using a favicon

• Partition user access by table name