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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Fetch access grants via the API
Hi there,The company I’m with is in the process of building a lot of dashboards in Looker. As you can imagine,...
Can't see images when exporting to PDF
Hello Looker community,I'm having trouble exporting my Looker dashboard to PDF, as the images are not showing ...
edit home page to add folder section
hi is there a way to customize the prebuilt homepage?for example, if i dont want to show the favoirte looks an...
Give edit access to board without manage access option
Hi, when selecting the access in a board there are 2 options: "view" and "manage access, edit"Is there a way t...
Board Not Viewable by Users
Hi,I’ve created a board in looker that I would like all users to be able to see when they log in. I’ve clicked...
Is there an Education license for Looker?
I reached out to someone via chat for pricing, but they didn’t seem to know what was going on. They said someo...
Board - default permissions
Hi all,Currently, when a user creates a Board, by default that Board is viewable by all users. We want to make...
Track changes to users
I want to see when a user account has been changed (create/disable/roles added etcetc) and who made the change...
Configure git "production HTTPS credentials are failing"
I’ve created a new project in development mode. I want to configure it to push it in a repo so other developer...
Consolidating LookML Projects Guide
You may find that once disparate LookML projects are now related, and therefore want to consolidate them into ...
SMTP and MFA
Hello,We’ve recently enabled MFA on the account being used with SMTP configuration in Looker.Authentication ha...
Extensions causing Looker Login to crash.
Looks like using the extension “Helium 10” in chrome browser is responsible for some 403 access denied errors,...
Amazon RDS to Looker Security and Speed
We are moving from an instance hosted by our company to an instance hosted by Looker.We need to move our conne...
An unknown error occurred - please try again later with service account
Hello I have a problem while sharing my reports. I want to use looker studio api with my service account. For ...
Backing up user content prior to deletion
Hi - I have been tasked with deleting a bunch of users’ accounts and I would like to back up their content, bo...
SSO on Looker Mobile App
Hello Everyone, I am using the official Looker Mobile App on my iPhone. Each time I connect to the application...
Scheduling custom external reports
Hello! I’m looking to schedule reporting to external users via email (PDF format). I would like the report to ...
Every error is the same (Athena) Error message not found: ATHENA_CLIENT_ERROR. Can't find bundle for base name com.simba.athena.athena.core.messages, locale en_US
Hello there,Been using Looker connected to Athena for ~3 years now. But in the last 2-3 weeks a strange error ...
sharing dashboard still requiring user log in
I have an public dashboard that is still requiring for viewers to log into google. what steps am i missing to ...
make a specific dashboard only viewable to a group of users
We want to make a specific dashboard only viewable to my team. What I did is to create a sub folder in the sha...
Looker Download Page Shows Only One .jar File (no dependencies .jar file) and "Trial" License Agreement, not EULA
Hi there,Issue: I entered our organizations Looker key & email at https://download.looker.com/validate, but th...
How to remove reports that I am not the owner of?
We’ve been trying a number of templates recently to quickly setup some data. We’re now in a position where we ...
Manage explorer join tables
How to know which database tables were used to create an explorer?
Lookerユーザーの編集に必要なpermissionについて
ユーザーの編集に必要なpermissionはpermission setで制御はできません。ユーザーの編集を行いたい場合はAdmin Roleが必須となります。
Permission sets for editing users
Permissions for editing users cannot be controlled with permission sets. Only the Admin Role has permissions t...
User license being used to it's full potential
Has anyone found a way to monitor all users usage to determine if their license is being fully utilized in a g...
How can I see a log of the queries triggered by autorefresh similar to what we see in the system activity admin dashboards?
I’m trying to monitor how many queries does each dashboard trigger.I was using the system__activity dashboards...
Log4J Vulnerability Java Helltool
Our security scans are reporting log4j 2.7.0 installed for the helltool java jar we should have 2.7.1 for secu...
What to do if I am getting "Error parsing the request, invalid_sp_id..." error in SAML authentication.
The full error will look this this:“Error parsing the request, invalid_sp_id: The element MUST be present in e...
Looker instance Slowness
Hi Everyone! I am hoping for some guidance on my Looker instances slowness as well as some best practices from...
