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: