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 usealpha_sort: true
. (see documentation)
Tier styling now available: New
style
: parameter updates how the tiers are presented in a data table. Options arestyle: relational
,style: integer
,style: interval
, andstyle: classic
(default) (see documentation)
order_by_field added: A new parameter to allow dimensions to sort by another dimension (see documentation)
Deprecated
dow
anddow_number
in favor ofday_of_week
andday_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