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svickers · 06-09-2021

It looks like when embedding a new dashboard the viz titles get left-aligned instead of center. Anybody else running across this?Looker on the left, embedded on the right:

svickers · 09-22-2020

Is there a way to remove the “Add to board” option in the context menu when embedding a beta dashboard? This is irrelevant to our embedded users, and most others I would imagine.

svickers · 09-04-2020

I noticed when adding filters to a beta dashboard that you are only allowed to select fields from explores that currently exist in vizs on the dashboard. We frequently use small purpose-built tables to make filter loading much quicker or handle certa...

svickers · 08-27-2020

Starting to poke around with the new dashboards and embedding. Noticed an issue with dimension links that had previously been a problem for us with the new table viz a year or so ago. We use links in dimensions for navigation to other dashboards or p...

svickers · 07-03-2020

When I am using chrome as an embed user, the multi value viz is blank on all of our dashboards that use it. When I am logged in to Looker directly they work fine, and it works fine for all the other users in the office. If I switch to Firefox it also...

svickers · 03-04-2022

Could it be an issue with the embed user attributes/permissions? If you see the query details you can get the actual SQL statement that was executed. Copy that and run it directly in your SQL console of choice and see if data is returned or it really...

svickers · 02-25-2022

When constructing your SSO url you can append filters as name/value pairs on the dashboard URL. So instead of /dashboard/1234 you can do /dashboard/1234?unit=Imperial.

svickers · 07-14-2021

You could use something like Zapier, IFTT, or MS Flow to be the webhook endpoint and handle the translation before forwarding on to webex.

svickers · 06-15-2021

There isn’t an api exposed that replicates the filter autocomplete. We did a custom filter integration about 3 years ago and are currently in the process of getting rid of it because of the hassle. Basically you need to use the field name and the que...

svickers · 02-26-2021

The easiest way is to make a theme that has the filters turned off, then you can just pass that theme in as a param when you build up your SSO url.

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