Moving dashboards to a new model

[ihayes]

I have an issue with access filters in two explores.

• First, I have an explore ‘X’ that has an access filter on dimension ‘A’
• Second, I have an explore ‘Y’ that derives from explore ‘X’ and has its own access filter on dimension ‘B’

For a variety of reasons both access filters are set from the same user attribute.
Explore Y’ thus has two access filters: ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Something seems to have changed recently in Looker because:

• Previously explore ‘Y’ only seemed to have access filter 'B as active
• Now explore ‘Y’ has both access filters ‘A’ and ‘B’ active

How can I fix this so that explore ‘Y’ only has access filter ‘B’ active?

I had one idea:

• Create a new explore ‘Z’ that derives from explore ‘X’
• Remove the access filter from explore ‘X’ and add it to explore ‘Z’
• Change all the reports that were using explore ‘X’ to using explore ‘Z’.

Would that work? Any other suggestions?

One last question on using the validator to update content models. Does this process update the existing dashboard entry or instead do a delete/add? I’m worried about losing links to known dashboards by number.

[jpklwr]

I only have an answer to your last question- content validator updates existing records. We do not lose dashboard or look links when we use this tool 🙂

Best of luck on the rest!