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Looker 3.14 Release Notes

  • 6 February 2015
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3.14 Release Date: February 2, 2015


Spaces and Collaboration




  • Look Validator (Labs feature): Check if Looks are broken & find/replace broken or renamed fields in all locations. Use the Look Validator before pushing changes to the model. (see documentation)




  • Home Spaces: Set any Space as your “Home” space by clicking the home icon next to desired Space’s name.




LookML




  • Symmetric Aggregates: Allows measures to be brought into a joined Explore. Try it out on individual explores and then enable it via Labs for your entire instance.




  • Tiering, SQL Case & Order By Field




    • Sort Order Updated: sql_case fields now sort in the order they are listed, rather than alphabetically. This will change the current sort functionality; to sort alphabetically in the old way use alpha_sort: true. (see documentation)




    • Tier styling now available: New style: parameter updates how the tiers are presented in a data table. Options are style: relational, style: integer, style: interval, and style: classic (default) (see documentation)




    • order_by_field added: A new parameter to allow dimensions to sort by another dimension (see documentation)






  • Deprecated dow and dow_number in favor of day_of_week and day_of_week_index (see documentation)




  • New LookML Syntax Highlighting




Derived Tables



  • Persistent Derived Table (PDT) admin panel improved to show latest and average PDT build time, table name, and trigger information


Dashboards and Visualizations




  • Downloading Options




    • Entire (non-LookML) dashboard can be downloaded as a PDF (Labs feature) (requires PhantomJS to be installed)




    • Data from a dashboard element can be downloaded directly from dashboard






  • Added ability to hide dashboard titles when embedding, using the URL parameter hide_title=true (see documentation)




  • Looker will only update an element’s filter description AFTER query has updated the displayed data




  • Improved messaging in the app:




    • Refined wording of “unknown substitution error” and other modeling error messages




    • Clarified impacts of copying LookML Dashboards to Spaces




    • Add a warning when listening and filtering on the same element, since filter is ignored






Enterprise, Platform, and Security




  • Require “explore” permission to open Looks (note: this may affect users who do not have the explore permission but should be able to see looks) (see documentation)




  • Alternate login - ability to add users by email address when LDAP/Google Auth is enabled (see documentation)




  • Custom S3 backups: specify your own S3 bucket and credentials for backups (default is Looker’s managed AWS account)




  • Increased max connection pool size to 100 from 30




  • BigQuery and Snowflake generator support




  • New database dialect support for Teradata and Xtremedata




General Improvements and Tweaks




  • SMTP error handling deletes mail jobs stuck in queue for more than 7 days and backs off following errors




  • (Running) or (Done) text in browser title instead of favicon icons




  • Fixed Safari CSRF cookie issue when embedding Looker in public websites



2 replies

F

Downloading option on Dashboards is excellent. Great Job Looker as always!

I see the new feature of scheduling dashboards to be sent via email, coming very soon 🙂

J

Yes I’ve been looking forward for email pdf’s of dashboards for a long time… Another helpful bit would be an API to download a pdf of a dashboard.

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