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Looker Explores

Home​

The Home of explores are quite similar to the one of tables

Fields are described by:

  • Name: name of the field (contains the view name)
  • Description (from Looker)
  • Role: Explore fields are either "dimensions" or "measures"
  • Type: nature of the field (ex. string, integer, etc)

Details​

At the right, the Details menu summarises key attributes of the selected Explore. It is visible from all tabs

  • Certified: Admins can mark a dashboard as certified to indicate documentation has been reviewed ✅
  • Deprecated: Admins can mark a dashboard as deprecated to prevent users from using it ⚠️
  • Favorites: Users can mark Explores as favorites
  • Dashboard button: link to Explore
  • Owners: a user can be assigned as the owner of an Explore
  • Popularity: computed based on the number of views
  • Description: short description of the Explore
  • Tags: tags can be used to describe Explores. They are common for all users of a company.
  • Source: always Looker for an Explore

Read me​

The section is a rich text to enable custom formatting.‌ To be able to see rich text options, simply select a portion of text

Lineage​

Lineage graphs show you:

  • the link between Explore and their related tables and dashboards

You can also look at the lists of:

  • Sources: travel up the lineage to its peak
  • Parents: tables used to create this Explore
  • Children: dashboards leveraging this Explore

Comments​

To easily collaborate and communicate between users, each Explore has a Comments section.

History​

A log of changes is kept under the History tab: