Developing Applications
Tips, developments, and best practices for software developers around making Looker's APIs, Extensions, Marketplace, Actions, and more work for you.
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Custom JDBC Connector for Looker
We are planning to connect the Looker with our custom product via JDBC which is not in the list of out-of-the-...
How to count rows per field using a measure: count?
I have a view that produces data like this:Item_iditem_descriptionbucket_id23cook book442apron222spoon412fryin...
How to manage tables with a large number of columns
Dear experts,I started using Looker few months ago and I need to migrate some BIs from Qlik to Looker. At the ...
Edit bulk rows through looker action hub (How to provide user comments for multiple rows in looker data)
I have a scenario, like in my dashboard i have a table view kind of look, where i have provided a data action…...
week_of_year starting on 'sunday'
Hi guys,Does anyone know how to get weeks starting on Sundays? I need to extract the week_of_year, but it is c...
SDKerror looker not found(404)
Using python SDK with Looker API. Want to create new project in looker where I have an admin and developer rol...
Connect measures and dimensions with JavaScript.
Hello All,I have developed a JavaScript to draw line and imported that in Looker with Custom visualization met...
Get Updated Dashboard Filter Value using API
I am trying to create generate CSV file of a dashboard using the SDK. I seems that Looker only provide the ren...
Download Server Side Settings
Hi,I am trying to download data from one Look in a dashboard. The row limit for the look is set as 30When down...
How to get filter names and values applied in the dashboard from the extension
I have created a Looker Extension using React JS and embedded my dashboard and dashboard filters within that u...
COALESCE IN LOOKER
Hi all.I am working in LookML. I wrote a measure and Looker automatically adds COALESCE function into SQL. All...
Pass user data to Scheduled Plans in Looker
How to pass the custom data to looker scheduled plans ?I am finding mostly the data is passed in the format of...
Error in image url when filter applied
Hello, I'm having an error in reader users where applying a filter and clicking on an image that has a url lin...
Include current date in email subject line
We have a requirement to incorporate the current date into the subject line of the email deliverables. Current...
Visualization using sql query in looker api
Is there a way to create visualizations based on sql runner query in the python sdk via looker api?Because you...
can we do stress testing bulk users for lookerstudio.google.com Dashboard Directly to verify loading
Hello,we have developed some dashboards, now we want to test lookerstudio.google.com Dashboard Directly to ver...
Embedded user - Editing user attributes?
Are there any plans to allow us to modify an embedded user? We constantly need to change different user attrib...
Looker Map Zoom Level
Hello,I am building a custom map layer in Looker. The zone areas are by blocks which are very small compare to...
Can I query system activity explores using sdk method?
Hi all, We’re working on building a data ingestion in java which pulls data from our system_activity explores ...
Extracting the DWH table names for views
For a project involving a data catalog, we're looking at the Looker API to retrieve definitions, etc. We want ...
Cloud translation
Currently i am trying to build language translatoror app using cloud translation api and it worsk good in my p...
How to create an "And" dashboard filter
I have an ask from a stakeholder to show the number of accounts that certain capabilities enabled and he wants...
Build looker embed url
Hi,We were using the `create_sso_embed_url` (https://developers.looker.com/api/explorer/4.0/methods/Auth/creat...
Non desired redirection (302) when accessing our Looker instance via a CNAME
We have a Looker instance running in aws eu-west-1 region and the DNS name for it is looker-insights-eu-west-1...
Retrieve SQL Runner query results using just API
Is there a way to do this just using the APIs? (aka without using the UI?)
how to create my own customise static dimentions in explore/looker
I want to create new dimentions /fields and also want to insert my own values.what will be the code syntax to ...
Looker API does not return Lookml dashboards information with pagination support
Looker API does not return Lookml dashboards information with pagination support.We are using dashboard search...
looker explore dimension syntex
how will I convert this sql into explore script to create dimension in looker?[Note : here table_recommendatio...
Private embedding
Hello everyone,We have option of managing alerts in Admin-->> Alerts screen. I am embedding my Looker dashboar...
