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sbrylowskiCommunity Admin

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The Google Data Cloud & AI Summit is back March 29!

Hi Everyone! Join us on March 29 for the Google Data Cloud & AI Summit. Learn about generative AI innovations plus the latest in analytics, BI, and databases. Hear fresh insights from industry experts, Google Cloud customers, partners, and peers. Our team has been working hard on this event and we are excited to see you there! Register now to save a spot.

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izzyGood Looker

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What's new in the Looker community?

If you’re new here, you might be thinking to yourself: “Wow, nice community! I can’t wait to become part of it.” If that’s you— Feel free to read this to see all the new features, but make sure to also check out the Getting Started guide. For the Looker Community old-timers, looking around and going “WOah, where am I?”— Read on.Up at the top for visibility: There is currently an issue with the Feature Requests category and how we map its posts. It’s not visible right now, but will be surfaced again once we can straighten things out. Check out this post for info on how to submit Product Ideas to Looker: What did we do?For the last several months, the Looker Community team has been hard at work planning for this platform migration. Today, we’ve moved all of the great content and users from discourse.looker.com over here, to community.looker.com. There’s a fresh new look and some great new functionality (detailed below), but still all of the same users and Lookers— and the same community

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Roderick_GCommunity Admin

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👋 Hey There, Introduce Yourselves!

Hey there,Rod here on the Community Team. Over the coming weeks, you’ll start to see a number of super-cool Google Community Team Members and Looker Experts checking in with you all.We're excited to see so many new faces in the Looker Community! Whether you're brand new to this space, or you've been here a while, we'd love to learn a bit more about you and how you're using Looker to explore, analyze and share real-time business analytics easily.Please take a moment and reply to this thread sharing a bit about yourself. The questions below are some conversation starters, but feel free to share a little or as much about you, your work and interest as you feel comfortable. Feel free to add whatever information about yourself that you feel is interesting. There's no one-size-fits-all here, so be you! In what part of the world do you reside? What do you work on? What expertise do you have to share or what are you learning? What would you like to get out of this Community? What do you do for

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mukulmunjal-1646050669Looker Staff

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How to receive help on Looker Studio (formerly known as Data Studio) based on your Looker Studio membership?

Thank you for taking the time to review our knowledge base article to learn how you can receive help on Looker Studio (formerly known as Data Studio) based on your Looker Studio account. We understand that navigating the different versions of Looker Studio can be confusing, so we would like to clarify that there are two versions available. Looker Studio Pro offers enterprise user management features, team collaboration features, support by Google Cloud Support Team, and SLAs. On the other hand, Looker Studio is available free of charge to anyone with a Google account and provides support from the community. Note: Although Looker Studio is accessible at no cost to anyone with a Google account, assistance is not provided by Google cloud support but rather by the community. If you are an Looker Studio Pro customer, submitting a ticket through the Cloud Support Console is the best way to receive assistance. We will ensure that your request is directed to the appropriate team for resolu

27 days ago

MichaelMember

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New "Looker Onboarding" Webinar

Are you a brand new to Looker? Are you an admin, developer, or BI lead? If yes, then we have the perfect webinar for you! Our customer success team has been hard at work identifying the foundational insights new admins, devs, and BI leads should know in order to ramp up fast. Now, they’ve turned that understanding into an incredibly informative webinar for all to join for free! Live in the (virtual) flesh on March 25th and April 8th, dedicated CSMs will be leading this invaluable onboarding discussion and answering any questions that come up along the way. If this isn’t you but you know others who would benefit, please share the event link! Check out the North America and EMEA event pages for more info and to register.

6 months ago

Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - August 2022

Hello Lookers,The end of summer is upon us, and we have some great sections in this month’s newsletter! Be sure to watch the video that outlines our tip/trick on exporting data from Looker to Big Query using cloud functions. Customer Insights: Are you passionate about feature requests, cool use cases, beta features, or want to give feedback on the Looker product? Wish there was a way to get more attention for your input? Join the Looker Customer Insights program for one-of-a-kind opportunities to directly influence our planning by interacting with the user research teams, engineers, and product managers. Are you or your company also using Data Studio? We are looking into what a Premium version of Data Studio should consist of and would love your feedback. Join us on Monday, August 29th at 9AM PT for a discussion with our Product Management team to share your thoughts. For an invite join the Looker Customer Insights program by August 28th. Want to share your thoughts around Looker’s

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deepika.raghavanLooker Staff

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Looker Support integrations with Google Cloud

Google acquired Looker in 2020. Since then, Looker customers who also use other Google Cloud products have received support for Google Cloud products and services in one platform, and support for Looker in a different platform. We're now moving into a new phase of the acquisition, where customers who have Looker and are an existing customer of Google Cloud with Standard Support or Enhanced Support will receive a fully integrated support experience. This phase of integration will deliver a streamlined service whereby all your queries for both Looker and Google Cloud products can be submitted through the same platform. Therefore, from August 1, 2022, you are able to submit your Looker cases from the Google Cloud Console. Customer Care delivers a secure, powerful and flexible support platform where you can choose the service that is right for you. Whether that’s a fast response, a self-management service or an additional service to enrich your experience, you’re in control! The three co

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - July 2022

July 2022 Hello Lookers,We have quite a few new release notes, and exciting things to tell you about. Read on to find out more! Customer Insights: Are you passionate about feature requests, cool use cases, beta features, or want to give feedback on the Looker product? Wish there was a way to get more attention for your input? Join the Looker Customer Insights program for one-of-a-kind opportunities to directly influence our planning by interacting with the user research teams, engineers, and product managers. Want to share your thoughts on improvements to the Looker Front End and Visualizations? Join us on Thursday July 28th at 9AM PT for a discussion with our Product Management team to learn about your most important requests that we should make to the front end and visualization. RSVP using this form by July 27th or reach out to Marout@google.com. Latest Release Note Highlights 🎉 22.12 - Release Highlights, Changelog, Breaking Changes New LookML Runtime is GA. The New LookML Runt

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - June 2022

Hello Looker Community, Happy summer to you and your Looker team! Scroll down to find out more about the Looker Data Champion event coming up in a few weeks!Community Spotlight: Video Tutorials Visit our Community Page, and check out our Video Tutorials on common errors or use cases. Our latest video demonstrates how to automate Looker with Google Cloud Functions. Latest Release Note Highlights 🎉 22.10 - Release Highlights, Changelog, Breaking Changes Table Column Ordering: Data downloads now respect the order of columns specified in the visualization, rather than the data table; in most cases. Looker Connect Training: Learn Looker faster with Looker ConnectWhether you’re new to Looker or hoping to broaden your Looker Skills, make an account at Looker Connect. At Looker Connect, you’ll have access to the most recent learning modules, documentation, community articles, hands-on labs, and videos. Events, and Looker Training Looker Data Champion Webinar - July 12 Google Cloud Next '22

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - May 2022

Hello Lookers, Read on for information on the Looker Adoption Group, Release Notes, and our new section called Customer Insights! Community Spotlight Looker Boards - Helping users find data that matters most Check out the above community post to learn how Looker boards can help users at your company access the data most relevant to them, in a quick and easy way. Want more resources and tips around adoption? Join the Looker Adoption Group for additional best practices shared each month. Latest Release Note Highlights 🎉 22.8 - Release Highlights, Changelog, Breaking Changes Forecasting: The Forecasting Labs feature, which lets users add projections to new or existing Explore queries, helps users predict and monitor specific data points. It is now enabled by default in preparation for general availability. Customer Insights 💡 Are you passionate about feature requests, cool use cases, beta features, or want to give feedback on the Looker product? Wish there was a way to get more atte

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - April 2022

Hello Looker Community, We have many new updates that we are excited to share with you! Make sure to see our events at the bottom of this page. Looker Community Spotlight: Creating Internal Documentation to Support Looker User Adoption Check out the above community post to learn how to create an effective onboarding and enablement resource page to promote Looker adoption at your company. Want more resources and tips around adoption? Join the Looker Adoption Group for additional best practices shared each month. Latest Release Note Highlights 🎉22.6 - Release Highlights, Changelog, Breaking Changes Enhanced Action Hub is now GA: New actions offer integrations for sending data from Looker to Salesforce and Facebook for better targeting. With the Salesforce Campaigns Action, customers can send custom lists of leads or contacts from Looker to populate new or existing campaigns within Salesforce. With the Facebook Custom Audiences Action, customers can use their first-party data within

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Department of Customer LoveLooker Staff

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Launching chatbot in our chat widget from March 14th

Disclaimer: The chatbot is only accessible to users who are permitted to use chats; there’s no change in our chat access policy. Users will still be able to engage with a support analyst by clicking “Get in Touch” in the chat window. We are starting the launch from March 14th to March 24th as part of the 22.4 deployment, at which time it will be by default switched on for customer instances on 22.4 and above unless you request to switch it off by filing a support request. If you want to switch the chatbot off, please make sure the instance is on one of our supported releases. The chatbot can be toggled for the whole instance on request. We cannot selectively switch off the chatbot for a particular user. Q&A:How do I start a live chat support once the chatbot is enabled?When the chat widget pops up, you will be prompted to ask a question first, after posting the question, the “Get in touch” button will appear in 3-5 seconds. What’s the best w

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - March 2022

Hello Lookers, We have a lot of information for you this month! But, first, don’t forget to register for the Data Cloud Summit at the bottom of this page. Looker Community Spotlight: How to manage PDTs at scale with Looker’s new Apache Airflow integration Read the above community post to learn how to support the scalability of PDTs with the Apache Airflow Integration. This how-to post provides technical steps on how to set this up successfully. Then, respond to the post with any questions or feedback you may have! Did you miss the “What’s New In Looker” webinar? You can register to see the latest On Demand version to stay up to date! Latest Release Note Highlights 🎉22.4 - Release Highlights, Changelog, Breaking Changes API 4.0. Looker API 4.0 is now in general availability and has multiple breaking and additive changes, which promote various endpoints from beta to stable. Read more about these changes in this document. API 3.1 and 3.0 versions are unaffected. Looker and community-s

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - February 2022

Hello Lookers, We have some interesting topics this month! Enjoy reading how you helped shape Looker by submitting your product feature requests in 2021. Looker Community Spotlight: How you helped make Looker better in 2021! Check out this recent post in the Looker Community, highlighting how user feedback impacted the product this past year. Over 50 user-driven requests were released in 2021! Read the post to learn more about the features released and learn how Product is improving the feedback process in 2022.. Latest Release Note Highlights 🎉22.2 - Release Highlights, Changelog, Breaking Changes Salesforce Campaigns integration with Looker Action Hub. Users can choose to create a new campaign or append users to an existing campaign. Cookieless login experimental Labs feature. Browsers have implemented stricter policies that prevent cookies from being set through iframes when the origins don’t match the parent page. Organize LookML dashboards in folders. Brings parity to how

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Maire_NewtonModerator

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Product Announcement: Introducing New API endpoints for PDT ManagementProduct Announcement

We’re excited to share that we now have three new API endpoints available for PDT management starting with Looker version 22.2. These new API endpoints provide finer-grained control over PDT management and pave the way for powerful integrations with workflow orchestration tools.With these new endpoints, developers can use the API (or API Explorer) to: Force a full rebuild of an incremental PDT, either on-demand or on a schedule Start a PDT build without running a query against it or waiting for the Regenerator to kick off a build the next time the table is triggered Build a PDT that takes longer than an hour to materialize in development mode (PDTs that take longer than an hour to build cannot be built in an Explore) This new functionality is gated behind the “develop” permission, so a user would need to have this permission in order to use the API for PDT management. Getting startedIn order to manage PDTs via the API, a toggle called Enable PDT API Control needs to be enabled in t

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jeremytchangModerator

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Looker API 4.0 Generally Available

Hi all,We are excited to announce that Looker API 4.0 will be generally available in Looker 22.4! The generally available API 4.0 will have multiple breaking and additive changes and will promote multiple endpoints from Beta to Stable. Check out the announcement at developers.looker.com for more details on how this affects you.

1 year ago

LanLooker Staff

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - January 2022

Hello Lookers, Happy New Year! We are back with exciting product updates, Community Spotlights, and a pro tip in this newsletter edition. Looker Community Spotlight: Community Groups Did you know that we have four Looker Community Groups? These are sub-groups within the larger Community focused on different topics. Find out more about each community group by clicking on the links below. Please join the group(s) you are interested in! Data Explorers Guild: Data-driven people come together to learn from peers, share experiences with data, and explore fun datasets in a collaborative environment. Early Access Group: Eager customers can stay up to date on the latest features and try them out before the general population. Looker Adoption: Learn about all things Looker adoption, enablement, and change management. Platform Developers: Nurtures our application developer community - this means a heavy focus on topics such as APIs, the extension framework, embedding, and components.

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blafLooker Staff

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Product Announcement: Introducing new in-app tutorials & onboarding guides

Rolling out over the next week, Looker is introducing new in-app onboarding guides! These onboarding guides are developed with the Business User/ Analyst in mind. They’re meant to guide users through key aspects of Looker so end users can quickly ramp on Looker basics. We’ve designed these guides to be an integrated part of the Looker experience - seamlessly walking users through the homepage, dashboards, and explore pages. Here’s an example of what this experience will look like for Looker users. We’re gradually rolling these guides out to all non-embed users on version 22.0+ by Friday January 28th. These guides will display to any user that is brand new to Looker, but can also be easily accessed by our new Resource Center logo next to the search icon. FAQs Q: When will I see these guides? A: You will see the Welcome guide once as a brand new business user - once you click through or dismiss it, it will not reappear. These guides will always be available via the Resource

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - December 2021

Hello Lookers, We wish you a festive and joyous holiday season! Thank you for a great 2021, and we look forward to partnering with you next year. We do not have a release in December, so this newsletter will omit our usual release highlights. Looker Community Spotlight: Community Groups Did you know that we have four Looker Community Groups? These are sub-groups within the larger Community, focused on different topics. Find out more about each community group by clicking on the links below. Please join the group(s) you are interested in! Data Explorers Guild: Data-driven people come together to learn from peers, share experiences with data, and explore fun datasets in a collaborative environment. Early Access Group: Eager customers can stay up to date on the latest features and try them out before the general population. Looker Adoption: All things Looker adoption, enablement and change management. Platform Developers: Nurtures our application developer community - this mea

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MichaelMember

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Final Data Circles sessions at JOIN 2021 happening today!

We have our final ‘Data Circles of Success’ sessions happening TODAY! Part of Looker’s JOIN@Home 2021 conference, these peer-to-peer knowledge sharing sessions are a true community events - come and talk with other users who share similar use cases, Looker implementations, or interests! Our final session topics today are: Efficient LookML model development Data pipelines and ETL Sensitive data management Super Admin Lightning fast Looker Scale your expertise through self-service analytics These sessions are totally FREE and you can register and ‘Save a Seat’ for your session here.

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MichaelMember

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Hackathon & Data Circles | JOIN@Home 2021JOIN@Home 2021

With Looker’s JOIN@Home 2021 conference right around the corner, I’m super excited to highlight some of the community-oriented events we’re hosting! Hack@Home 2021 | 2-Day Hackathon Did you know that Looker’s famously fun Hackathon IS BACK at this year’s JOIN@Home conference?  That’s right! Hack@Home is back for a two day, virtual Hack event on Nov 10th & 11th. You can expect inspiring projects, fun collaborations, expert support, and tons of that good ol’ Looker magic. This event is perfect for those interested in: Action Development API Extension Framework Embedding LookMLIf you, or anyone else you know, is interested in joining for this hands-on experience in building data experiences on top of Looker, please join us! And yes, there will be exclusive Hack@Home swag for participants. 😎 -You can find the full agenda and register for the Hackathon here. Click the ‘seat’ icon to sign up.-Join the Hack@Home 2021 Community Group to stay up-to-date on event communications. Data

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Lesley_RahbanyCommunity Admin

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Customer Success Newsletter - October 2021

Hello Lookers, We are excited to bring you the news on what is happening at Looker this month. Don’t forget to register for Join@Home! Sessions are filling up fast! Looker Community SpotlightThe Looker Community is the place to: Engage with other Looker users Stay in the know about the latest Looker events Ask questions and get answers To join the Looker Community: Create an account here. Select 'Create New Account' under the 'Login' heading. Choose a username and password and click ‘Register.’ Latest Release Note Highlights 🎉21.18- Release Highlights, Changelog, Breaking Changes URL Links in Boards. The new URL Links in Boards Labs feature allows editors of boards to add URL links to a board alongside Looks and dashboards. Links to Looker content will open in the same browser tab; links to content outside Looker will open in a separate browser tab. Revert to legacy dashboards. The Revert to Legacy Dashboards legacy feature has been extended. Users will continue to have

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