Looker 3.26 Release Notes

Release Date: July 21, 2015

End of Cycle Date: August 7, 2015

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Visualizations and Dashboards

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  Hide Fields From Visualizations. Learn More.
  


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  Choose Looks Modal Improvements: Now supports adding multiple copies of the same Look to a single dashboard. Learn more.


• Chart Specific Improvements:


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  Single Value: Font size adjusts based on page size when on a dashboard
  
  
  
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    Pie Chart: Value labels now available
  
  
  
  


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  Bar & Column Charts: Ability to order stacked bar charts by ascending or descending values within each column


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  Donut Multiples: configurable series label font size


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  Legends for Cartesian Charts Can Be Right or Left Aligned. Learn More.


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  Reference Lines Remain on Chart When First Series Removed. Note: series dependent reference lines, like min., max, or mean will still refer to first-series values. Learn more.


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  X-Axis Setting Improvements.
  
  
  
  • Force axes to align at zero when negative values are present and no min or max are set.
  
  
  • Setting for “Time” on the x-axis now works with only one series.
  
  
  • Time label formats are now available for “Ordinal” setting.
  
  
  
  

Authentication and Security

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  Added SAML Support Learn More.

Explore

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  Improved Suggestions for Filter Drop-Downs.
  
  
  
  • Suggestions are now available from joined persisted derived tables.
  
  
  • Fixed an error preventing the suggest_explore parameter from working.
  
  
  
  


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  Added Warning When Downloading All Results. This has been introduced to reduce unintentional user error in downloading overly large result sets.


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  Improved LookML Button Behavior. See LookML button next to the Explore name in the Field Picker now jumps to the corresponding Explore definition in the development environment.

LookML & Development

• Allow value_format parameter to be applied to dimensions of type: tier.


• Support custom ports in git URLs. Learn More.
  

##Administration Panel

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  Query Management Panel. View details of recent and running queries with the ability to kill long running queries. Learn more.
  


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  Usage Panel Updates:
  
  
  
  • Dashboard schedules are now explorable via a new explore (scheduled_task_dashboard).
  
  
  • Derived tables are now available in the i_looker model.
  
  
  • Exposed top looks as an element on the Usage Panel.
  
  
  
  

New Query Management Panel

##Dialects and Databases

• Hive support now includes PDTs.


• Snowflake support now includes Symmetric Aggregates and PDTs.


• Improved memory usage for downloads on Redshift and MySQL.

##General Improvements, Bug Fixes and Tweaks

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  Updates to Scheduled Emails:

  
  
  
  
  • Links in scheduled emails will now only be available for measures, not dimensions.
  
  
  • E-mails with content larger than the allowed size limits (based on e-mail provider) will be converted to html attachments instead of being cut off inline.
  
  
  • Link to explore data in Looker has been moved to the top of the e-mail for increased visibility.
  
  
  
  


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  History now includes Looks.

  
  


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  Fixed an issue with the free-text input boxes in the visualization editor clearing unexpectedly.

  
  


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  Right justify values for numeric table calculations in the data table.

  
  


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  Provide a useful error when limit of 30K rows with pivoted data is reached. Note: error appears in the .csv file, not within Looker.