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👋 Introductions Thread

You will likely want to unsubscribe from this topic, unless you want to get a lot of emails! While we work on a better solution, make sure that after you post, you toggle the Subscribe button off, as it will automatically turn on after you post in the thread. You want the star to be white/empty (lik...

New Community Bugs and Questions

I think there are and will be some initial bugs with the new rollout. As there might be many minor issues then I thought to start a new topic around this. Also maybe to include some questions about the new layout.

Article Migrating your old Discourse account

This post only applies to users that were members of discourse.looker.com and are looking to log into the new community for the first time. New User? Go here.So you’re an OG Looker Community member, looking to migrate your account from Discourse to the new community forums? Fantastic. Follow these...

Creating a 2 Day Lag in Looker Chart

I am trying to create a 2 day lagged report because my data is not complete until 2 days after the work date. For example, my chart today shows data through 3/22/2021. However, 3/21 and 3/22 are not complete - which skews the charts. I want to only have the chart showing through 3/20. Is there a w...

Article Feature Requests: How your feedback makes Looker better

We have fully transitioned to the method of feedback described below. While you can of course discuss new and desired features right here in the online Community, in order to get your vote counted and officially surface your idea to our product team, please follow the instructions below. We are in...

How to exclude a specific pivoted column from table calculation?

Hello Looker community, if I want to calculate a Mean of total across the whole row, EXCEPT the last column (80 or Above), what should I do? Mean (pivot_row(products Count)…???)

Pivot Table Calculation

I am trying to convert a date into a week day name, and have it displayed underneath the full date in the visualization.For example, my data shows dates across the top (3/1/2021, 3/2/2021, etc). Underneath the dates I would like to display the day of the week.I did a table calculation to convert th...

how to share a SQL query?

I’ve created a basic sql query which means I needed to use developer mode.It’s “committed and pushed” with looker’s git web gui.but nobody else on the team can access it, when I share the link.I was expecting this to be a simple task!

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Metric Selector Parameter as column

I would like to create a list of metrics as a dimension so I can create the following. I would then need to figure out how to create the second columns that does the correct aggregations. all the documentation I have found only shows the dimension as filter field only when used in a parameter, but I...

Looker Dashboard - Filters: Switch between monthly, weekly, daily views

Hello Community,I am creating a looker dashboard, based on the -let’s say- last 5 days with a barchart of certain metrics per day, and would like to add a filter on the top of the dashboard to show me they last 5 weeks (or last 5 month etc.)Is that possible to switch easily between days, month etc.?...

Looker Business Analyst certification!

Hi All, I would appreciate any help in my Looker BA Certification journey. I have been trying to interview and a lot of the places that I would LOVE to work at use Looker. I have been trying to get enough experience to get certified but I have not been able to pass the certification with just the fr...

Not able to access sandbox

Hi Community members,I am currently on the LookML section of Looker training and it asked me for my email address to be able to access the learn.looker.com sandbox environment. It’s been over 12 hours but i haven’t received any access email. Please advise. Thanks!

Forecasting month volume by days of the week

I am trying to forecast my monthly case volume by using month to date actuals, by day, as the predictor. My daily volume fluctuates dramatically - so if I have 5 Fridays in a month vs 4 Fridays my volume can be very different. I have created a custom dimension to convert Work Date (DD-MM-YY) inform...

How to flag spam in community messages

I recently got a private message in my Community inbox from someone asking me to email her to become her friend and get access to her pictures. Is there some way to flag that as spam, or at least block the user. I’m not seeing any such options.

Error in Commit History of Git Actions

Hi,I can’t access to “Commit History” in Git Actions menu. I get the error: “TypeError: l.map is not a function”. It happens in all branches of the project. Thanks, Eva

Preparing for Looker Certification

hi everyoneCurrently using Tableau and want to take Looker training and certification. Any help how to get the software on my personal laptop to explore and get hands-on experience before the certification?ThanksMohamed-Ali Shiha

How do I get Look creation capability? I can view and update data in Looks and Dashboards. Also where is the documentation on what data is available?

I am new to Looker and work with the Marketing Web Analytics team. I want to be able to create my own Looks from scratch.

stacking columns into rows

Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to have my a new measure shown as a new row instead of a new column in a look? For example I was gross revenue than a new row that shows cost of goods sold, than calculate gross profit, with each being a new row in the data table. Is there anyway I can do this?

Dashboard filter to update after another filter

Hi! I have a dashboard that has visualitzations from two explores and each explore has two filters on the dashboard like this: What I need is that when I select a value for the Access filter, the Sport Breakdown Access filter updates to match the same value. And the same for the Country and Sports b...

How to start working on Looker?

I am interseted in working on Looker. I am a Data enthusiast who is currently working on Tableau and want to check Looker as it look more promising. But I am unable to get a download file to install Looker in my Desktop. Can anyone please help me get one.

Getting Started with lookml course - Incorrect Certificate of completion

Hello,When someone completes the course "Getting Started with lookml" and then downloads the certificate of completion, it is the certificate for a different course called "Looker Sales Verification Program".I noticed this behavior during the last few days, before that the certificate for download w...

How to find version number

I see many documents with release notes… however, I don’t see any way within Looker (or on our Looker server) to find out what version we’re currently on. As far as I can tell, the previous people last downloaded a .jar in July 2020 - but I have no way of knowing what version that was except by infe...

Looker Community needs a drafts feature!

I nearly lost a 500 word post by accidentally hitting Backspace (set as the shortcut for going back on my browser). If I hadn’t saved a copy of it in Slack while writing it, it would’ve been gone forever.I believe Discourse had something like this and it seems pretty important that this forum should...

language User Interface

Hello, how to change the language of the user interface.I went to localization but the language was not changedThanks

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