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Article Preserving drill fields when conditional formatting is applied

Last tested: Jan 21, 2019 Tip: Use the <a></a> tag instead of your <p></p> or <div></div> tagWhen applying conditional formatting to the cells of your visualization using the HTML tag, you may lose your drill field functionality if not careful. To solve this use t...

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Article Add a total's column to a stacked bar chart

Last tested: Oct 14, 2020 Using Table Calculations, you can add a total column to a stacked bar chart. (Note: If your bar chart is not stacked, you can add a total column by simply checking the row totals box and pivoting on your dimension)METHOD 1: TOTAL COLUMN WITH BREAKDOWNStep 1: Configure your...

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Article Is it possible to make the domain in the url of a `link` parameter dynamic, based on the user's instance environment (i.e. prod, dev, etc. )?

Last tested: Oct 25, 2019 Simple CaseIn the url of a link parameter, you can omit the instance name and Looker will fill in the instance name with the instance you're on when you click the link. So you can just use /dashboards/123 .User Attribute WorkaroundIf you want something dynamic that isn't ju...

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Article Why are my stacked column series not maintaining a constant series order from low to high?

Last tested: Oct 26, 2018 Most likely you have chosen the Series Order option from the main EDIT > Plot menu. When using Stacked or Stacked Percentage plot (either column or bar), you have the choice to use:Default Descending AscendingDefault will maintain the constant series order for each colu...

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Article Why aren't all my zipcodes being visualized in the interactive map viz?

Last tested: Jan 21, 2019 There are a couple of possible reasons for this. First, the built-in us_zipcode_tabulation_areas map layer used to visualize zipcode data in the interactive map is built from 2010 census data. It's possible that some of the zipcodes not showing up were created more recentl...

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Article Why can I drill even though I don't have the see_drill_overlay permission?

Last tested: May 29, 2019 Within Looker, the see_drill_overlay permission is included in the explore permission, so if a user has the explore permission, they will be able to drill by default.It's the second sentence in the permission list:https://docs.looker.com/admin-options/settings/roles#see_dri...

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Article Why can't I "hide no's from visualization" in a table calc?

Last tested: Sep 11, 2019 Double check to see if the Yes and No values have quotes wrapped around them!Note that if(${field_name} > x, "Yes", "No") is not the same as if(${field_name} > x, yes, no). If we include quotes around the yes and no values, Looker will output strings and we'll lose th...

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Article What happens when a null is concatenated with a value?

Last tested: Jan 21, 2019 Just like arithmetic operations on a list, a null will make the entire result null. This content is subject to limited support.

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Article Is it better to use the running_total measure or to use Table Calculations to perform a running_total?

Last tested: Jan 21, 2019 This can vary on your use case; however, Table Calculations provide more flexibility as they are run after your the Explore page returns results.This point is important to consider when your Explore results table has Pivoted Columns. Pivots will impact the Measure of `type:...

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Article Conditional formatting (font size, color) in a table viz

Last tested: March 2021 There are currently options for font size in the table-next visualization.As of 4.10, we have conditional formatting that can be used in the table visualization. As of 5.2, this can be applied on a per-measure basis. This only affects colors, not font size.Size customization...

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Article How do I hide personal folders for users?

Last tested: March 2021 By default, in an open system, users have access to everyone's personal folder. If you want to hide those from users, you have two options: Enable Closed System and then disable Closed System. Enabling Closed System will remove the "All Users" group from the instance. When yo...

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Article Why is my query crashing my browser or making the page unresponsive?

Last tested: May 2020 This Help Center explains why a query can crash your browser but be fine on the instance and/or database.The rule of thumb is that 30,000 cells will choke most browsers. You could also crash a browser with one cell that has an incredibly large amount of text inside.At some poin...

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Article What does a row limit of -1 mean?

Last tested: March 2021 This is the number Looker uses to represent "unlimited results". You might see it in API results or the internal database, but you cannot enter it manually into the UI.For allowed row limits, see https://help.looker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001285567-What-are-all-the-Row-Lim...

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Article Why can't I assign a model set to a Role?

Last tested: June 2020 If the Role has the manage_models permission, then their models cannot be limited. This behavior is explained in the permissions docs:"Each LookML model is mapped to a specific set of database connections on the Manage LookML Projects page. This permission lets the user config...

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Article Can I add filters to a Look URL?

Last tested: April 2021 Yes, it looks like this:https://myinstance.dev.looker.com/looks/6384?f[view.dimension_date]=last+1+daysAny additional filters are declared with another &:&f[view.filter_1_dimension]={{ value }}&f[view.filter_2_on_date]=last+60+daysFilters are all you can bring thr...

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Article Error: Unknown view. View does not exist in model. Check for typos or missing include statements.

Last tested: March 2021ProblemYou receive a LookML error that complains about an unknown view. The error takes the form:Unknown view “my_view”. View “my_view” does not exist in model “my_model”. Check for typos or missing include statements in “my_model”.Solution 1The most simple reason for this err...

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Article How does an incorrect relationship affect queries?

Last tested: March 2021 The relationship parameter only tells Looker whether or not to use symmetric aggregates. So, the worst case scenario from an incorrect relationship is that Looker does not apply symmetric aggregates when it really needs to. Thus, you can have fanout and potentially incorrect...

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Article Why are my only filter options “is on the day/is equal to” and “matches user attribute”?

Last tested: March 2021 If you are using a parameter as your filter, you will only see these two options, since parameters are designed to insert a single value into your code.On a dashboard, this will occur if the "Allow Multiple Values" feature for dashboard filters is off. Try turning it on. Thi...

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Article List of visualization options no longer available in Enhanced Visualizations

Last tested: July 2019 The following visualization options are no longer available in Enhanced Visualizations (Looker 6.0): Plot - Series Order (this can also be missing if Stacked or Stacked Percentage is not selected) Plot - Focus Lines on Hover Values - Value Density X - Time Tick Count...

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Article How do I get queries to run without symmetric aggregates applied?

Last tested: March 2021 You shouldn't do this. Symmetric aggregates are designed so that measure values are consistent no matter what joins are used in the query, and Looker does not support any solution that generates different measure values depending on what tables are joined.But what about the s...

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Article What does the MD5 function do?

Last tested: March 2021 MD5 is just a hash that turns strings into hashes.It's useful for making IDs out of a concatenation of several fields, which makes it valuable for joins. Looker uses it in symmetric aggregates.Example:select md5('Amazon Redshift'); md5 ---------------------------------- f7...

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Article When should I use a measure of type string?

Last tested: March 2021 Anytime you have an aggregate that returns a string. A common example is a group_concat or listagg, though you could also concatenate two measures into a single string for aesthetic value.The docs explain this in more detail. This content is subject to limited support. ...

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Article Can I apply LookML access to a view file?

Last tested: April 2021 No. In Looker, all permissions are defined at the model level or instance level.Views are included in models, so by defining model-level permissions, you're also defining permissions on the included views. This content is subject to limited support.

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Article How to pass a filter condition to a derived table AND keep it in the main query

Last tested: March 2021 The ProblemI need a condition to appear in the WHERE clause of my derived table, but I also need it to appear in the WHERE clause of my main Looker-generated query. So my final query should have the same condition in both places, like so :WITH derived_table AS ( SELECT * FRO...

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Article Can the individual series of a pivoted dimension be split between different axes ?

Last tested: March 31, 2021 No. Each measure goes on one axis. If you have a measure pivoted, all of its pivoted values go on the same axis.If you want to specify the axis for a particular measure for each pivot, then use filtered measures instead. Create a filtered measure for each possible value...

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