As of Looker 3.16, fields that are preceded with a period, in order to remove the view name, will no longer remove that view name.
Old Behavior
Before Looker 3.16, it was possible to remove the view name from a field, throughout Looker’s UI (such as the Explore page), by starting the field name with a period.
For example, this LookML:
- view: order
fields:
- dimension: price
...
Would appear as:
ORDER Price
Whereas this LookML:
- view: order
fields:
- dimension: .price
...
Would appear as:
Price
New Options
As of Looker 3.20, you can use view_label to achieve the same behavior. For example:
- view: order
fields:
- dimension: price
view_label: ''