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Brent_Wiles · 02-06-2024

Update: This issue has been confirmed by Looker and was unintentionally caused by v24.0. A ticket has been opened with the engineering team.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hello All - we've used the lead...

Brent_Wiles · 11-29-2023

Has anyone figured out a way to force a line break in the description field of a dimension? I've tried some of the usual suspects (<BR />, \n) but these all show in the description.

Brent_Wiles · 01-09-2023

Have other people found that when exporting a table visual with subtotals enabled to Excel, that the subtotal amount gets repeated? Once with the category (field used for subtotaling) filled in and once with it blank.It does it for all the subcategor...

Brent_Wiles · 07-06-2022

Is there a way to use the content validator to “find” all references to a field, but not “replace” them? Or is there another solution for accomplishing this outside the validator?

Brent_Wiles · 02-17-2022

I noticed this morning that the Alt+Click functionality no longer works when interacting with the legend. Previously, this would allow you to quickly toggle individual series on and off or mass select/deselect all series.Hopefully this is a bug and n...

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Does this line of code work? I'd expect including sum in this statement to throw an error. If not, cool, I learned something new!sql: ${total_emails_delivered}/sum(${Adjusted_emails_unsubsribe})If it does throw an error you can change the adjusted_em...

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It sounds like you're trying to change the dimension value for Column and not group the results.If that is the case, we typically put the case statement within the sql clause of the column. Syntax may vary slightly based on your database.Depending on...

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We noticed on 3/28/24 that Looker had resolved the field ordering issue on our instance. Hopefully everyone else has seen the same.

Brent_Wiles · 02-21-2024

@n_davis I don't believe so, we try to avoid the subtotal functionality because it misbehaves too often when used in any implementation beyond the most basic use cases. That's been our experience at least

Brent_Wiles · 02-20-2024

Hi @IanT - yes, the Looker engineering team has assessed the issue and given it a medium priority for resolution. That's based on our biz impact, but it is impacting all users on Looker v24.0.I'm not sure how that translates to a timeline, if there i...

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Sudden change in label ordering in explores

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Alt+Click on Legend No Longer Working

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