I created a dashboard with several Looks on it and added some filters. One of the charts doesn’t have any values when a specific value of filter is selected, but instead of simply showing that chart empty (which is confusing some users, making them think that was an error on that chart), I want to hide that chart when that value is selected on the filter.
Is it possible to do that?
Hide Looks on Dashboard based on filter
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16 January 2018
Hi
While it isn’t currently possible to hide Looks on a dashboard automatically (when no values are present), I will go ahead and let our product team know about your request and specific use case.
Thank you, and have a good one!
Elliot
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Would be great if we could get an update on this
+1 for this feature. We do have dashboards in which certain tiles have no data (when a certain filter is applied) and it kinds of look unclean. It would be great if there was a way to hide Looks on Dashboard based on filter.
+1 for this feature.
Hi
Same question as above. Is there any way we could vote for the Feature Request (“Hide empty looks on dashboards”)?
Userlevel 7
Knowing there is no results can be just as important to know than seeing results if it has some...so hiding the look (depending on use case) I think is confusing, it would be better for the look to clearly state no results rather than it disappear.
Hi IanT, I agree with you… yet it depends on the use case.
In my personal situation, the Explore that are empty are expected to be empty when the filter kick in. So there is no need for my users to see the big empty block. I guess it’s the same as the OP.
+1 for this feature.
This is blocker for us, waiting for it long time.
Knowing there is no results can be just as important to know than seeing results if it has some...so hiding the look (depending on use case) I think is confusing, it would be better for the look to clearly state no results rather than it disappear.
That’s basically making a blanket decision for everyone, irregardless of their actual use case.
For example, what if someone was building a troubleshooting dashboard or hierarchy discovery dashboard, and they only wanted to show tiles depending on what filters have been set, or the use of actions in a field in a visible look?
There’s a lot to be desired with Looker’s next gen dashboards. A lot of functionality that plenty of other tools have, that just aren’t there.
Userlevel 2
I remember a feature in Crystal Reports from ages ago where we could specify a message that would display if no results. It was very helpful; I haven’t seen anything like it in forever.
An option/ability to create a Show/Hide filter would be great - as well as the ability to add a ‘No Data’ message to an empty look.
+1 for this feature, I think Looker can provide more functionality on Dashboard.
Hey everyone. Any update on how to achieve this? This is a feature I’ve seen many people asking for. Dynamically hiding or showing certain tiles would be a wonderful feature.
Userlevel 4
We are also looking forward to see this feature
original request was 4 years ago … and the wait is still on. +1 for this feature
+1
Userlevel 2
+1
does anyone have a workaround on this?
+1
We too would like a way to do this, even if it means using liquid code.
+1 yes please
+1 yes please
+1 is anyone from Looker actually reading these? 4 YEARS is a long time for a piece of functionality thats in PowerBI, Tableau and others OOTB
I’d like this as well - It will help a lot with dashboard reuse, where we can create general-purpose dashboards that are reused, without showing tiles that are not relevant.
This would be a great feature. Really wish Looker would work on refining little things like this. The base product is functional but it has so much more potential.
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