How to send an event from a custom visualization component (in a tile of an sso embed dashboard inside the iframe) to parent web page
I have a custom visualization component created. I put it in a tile of an sso embed dashboard (inside an ifram...
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Looker Action - Using AWS Lambda function and API Gateway to update data in Redshift
Can users update data in Redshift from a Look?I’m trying to incorporate Looker action parameter into a Look to...
How to migrate or copy schedules of Looks and Dashboards using API
Challenge:I want to copy the schedule of dashboard 1 and assign to dashboard 2 using API; or I migrate dashboa...
data loading takes a long time
I have over 20,000 rows in my BigQuery database and when I do my looker queries it takes over 20 minutes to di...
Embed looker dashboard in Angular
Can we embed say some line chart , Bar Chart that we created in looker integrated with Angular?. Because paren...
Authenticatin issue within Salesforce
Hi friends, In my company we are using Salesforce and we would like to embed Dashboard withing Salesforce. I t...
See "Error: Your alert could not be saved." message in embedded looker
We are trying to create an alert in embedded looker but get that error message. The create alerts message is s...
Get request in python script for Looker automation
Hi,For looker automation, I need to write python script for looker API. I am able to authenticate looker api u...
SSO embed tools and troubleshooting resources
It can be challenging to create an SSO embed script and troubleshoot when errors appear. Here are some helpful...
Looker API for lookml views
Hi, I am looking for a Looker API to get views from model similar to /api/4.0/lookml_models/{lookml_model_name...
How to create a query with custom dimensions via the API?
I’m trying to construct a query dynamically in Python and provide a link to it as part of some output. I’m pos...
Creating Roles via API using Python
Hi Everyone, If you have a task to create a number of Roles in Looker, this Python function will help you to d...
Copy Embedded User-Defined Dashboard Using API
Hi all, I know that many people have wondered if it’s possible (and how to) copy a user-defined (UDD) dashboar...
Google Sheets Export is missing chunks of rows
We’ve been using the Google Sheets action to export looker data on a schedule to google sheets. It’s been fant...
Prefetching (3.36+)
What is prefetching? Prefetching is an API-only system through which a customer can pre-run certain dashboards...
Clarification on Looker Components "Coming Soon"
I’ve recently been working on moving our custom developers’ tools to an app in Looker using the Looker Extensi...
Specify Number of Records to Fetch
Hello, I’m trying to reproduce what the following would do in SQL: SELECT * from MY_TABLE LIMIT 10 OFFSET 10 H...
Cache does not work for fetching 'All results' via API 3.0
Fetching ‘All results’ was possible using run_inline_query for a Dashboard/Look either by passing no ‘limit’ o...
Easily loading JSON to a dataframe
What is the simplest way of getting the json results from a look into a pandas dataframe? Assuming I have a tw...
Problem creating custom measure with dynamic_fields api parameter
Hi! I’m having some trouble creating a custom measure via the Looker API (4.0). Technically, I’m using the Jav...
Hack@Home hackathon
Hey Good Lookers! I think a fair number of the people that hang out in the Open Source Projects category atten...
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Sending Custom Emails with Looker Data: Looker + Zapier Integration
Sending Custom Emails with Looker: Looker + Zapier IntegrationWhile Looker’s built-in emailing functionality s...
Attempting update_look in Python SDK, assertion err. I must have my syntax wrong
Among our users, we’ve got lots of trouble with dashboards and looks running big queries upon load - so I’ve b...
Dashboards Next embed link issue
Starting to poke around with the new dashboards and embedding. Noticed an issue with dimension links that had ...
Private Look embed with only the visualization
I would like to make a private embed of a Look, but just the visualization. Can I hide the Look title and time...
I experienced an issue with Python SDK function "all user attribute group values"
Using Python 3.7 with the latest version of SDK The is no issue to execute all_user_attribute_group_values for...
Embedded Looker Dashboard: Disable "Move to Trash..."
We’re using embedded looker dashboards / explores / looks. By enabling the save_content permission a user is a...
Timezone Tooltip Cutoff
The tooltips in my embed iframe are cutoff if they spill over the div. This is particularly visible with the T...
Create dashboard alert from Looker API
Hi, Is there a way to create dashboard alert from API?
