Release Rollout Begins: February 20, 2017
Release Final & Download Available: March 2, 2017
Release Highlights
In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail.
- Scheduling and Downloading
- Dashboards and Visualizations
- Looker Platform and Administration
- Content Management and Discoverability
- LookML and Development Environment
- Dialects
Preparing for Release
Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below.
- Changed the location of deploy keys for newly created projects.
- “Rebuild Derived Tables & Run” option on Explore pages is now hidden for all embedded users.
- Moved Public Access settings for Looks to the Look Settings modal.
- Disabled the Save button from the Edit Look modal until the query is finished updating.
Notable Features
Conditional Formatting
Make the results that matter pop! Table visualizations now sport a Conditional Formatting labs feature; use it to define rules that color code values that are low, high, or otherwise of interest.

Filterable Dashboard Schedules
Dashboards schedules can now each have their own filter values, allowing you to customize results for your recipients. Send regional teams results filtered for their territories of interest and filter weekly, quarterly, and annual reports independently. Use a single Dashboard to manage your scheduling needs!

Features by Section
Scheduling and Downloading
Filterable Dashboard Schedules. Introduced the ability to change filter values for each schedule associated with a given Dashboard.
Inline Tables is now the default email delivery option for new scheduled content. Existing schedules won’t be changed.- Added API support for downloading Dashboard PDFs.
Dashboards and Visualizations
Conditional Formatting [labs] for Table visualizations. Learn more about Labs features.- Added drop-down options to the Add/Edit Dashboard Filters interface.
Trend Line equations and R2. Trend Line labels can now display the equation used for the line or the Trend Line’s R2 value.
Looker Platform and Administration
- Powered by Looker
Saving from an Embedded Context. Introducing the ability for embedded users to save content the ability to curate content for embedded users.
Scheduling from an Embed Context. Embedded users now have the ability to schedule Looks and Dashboards.- Embedded Look URLs can now be modified to override filter values.
- JavaScript embed events can continue firing across page loads.
- Exposed embed-related
external_id
fields in already-existingcredentials_embed
andspace
routes.
⚡ “Rebuild Derived Tables & Run” option on Explore pages is now hidden for all embedded users.
⚡ Changed the location of deploy keys for newly created projects. Looker-hosted instances will not need to take any action. Action is required for customer-hosted clusters creating new projects. Learn more about syncing git SSH keys. Learn more about shared storage clusters.
Connection tests. Added an option in the Connections Panel to test all connections or each individually.
Content Management and Discoverability
Unused Content and Trash. Introduced two sections that allow instance Admins to, in bulk, clean up all of the unused and unneeded content on an instance.
The Unused Content page will pull together all content that hasn’t been touched in 90 days. Admins can then delete those items, which will move them to the Trash.
Trash. Items in Trash can be restored or permanently deleted at the Admin’s discretion.
Tables in Spaces are now sortable and are paginated. This does not apply to the LookML Dashboard space.- Move and Copy Modals in Spaces now match the new Save Look modal.
Run on Load for Looks. Introduced the ability to set whether Looks run immediately. This setting can be configured in Edit Look Settings.
⚡ Moved Public Access settings for Looks to the Look Settings modal.- It is now possible to delete a Dashboard from the Dashboard page.
Markdown file navigation. Added the ability to create a navigation menu for Markdown documents.
LookML and Development Environment
Fiscal years and quarters. Introduced afiscal_month_offset
LookML parameter to allow for custom fiscal years. Learn more
- Better SQL Runner error highlighting.
- Projects can now include JSON files.
Updated the syntax formap_layers
so that they can now reference JSON files included in the project.- Introduced the ability to add files to a project by dragging and dropping them into the LookML IDE.
Dialects
BigQuery Standard SQL. Improved the LookML project generator.
BigQuery Legacy SQL. RemovedEACH
fromGROUP BY
, improving performance for certain queries.
Presto. Added support for Qubole’s Presto as a Service for Presto versions 0.157 and 0.142.
General Tweaks and Bug Fixes
⚡ Disabled the Save button from the Edit Look modal until the query is finished updating. This addresses an issue where Look edits would not persist if saved too quickly.- Fixed an issue where menus items that ran off the page could not be reached by scrolling.
- Removed the Go to LookML link for users who are not able to see LookML.
- SQL errors are now only exposed to users with the
see_lookml
permission. - Fixed an issue where the SQL tab was blank on Safari.
Fixed an issue related to escaping the\
character in filter values. - Fixed an issue where Reset Look did not reset query results.
- Fixed an issue where webhook delivery could block scheduled content delivery.
- Fixed an issue where Single Column PDF Dashboard element titles were mixed up.
- Fixed a issue where the ‘Create Schedule’ option was not available in the Details pane of the Look page.
- Fixed an issue related to downloading results from drill overlays.
- Fixed an issues that resulted in Select 10 SQL Runner functions not working properly.
- Fixed a SQL Runner issue related to listing tables in on Spark 2.0.
- Group labels for measures are now the same color as measure names in the field picker.