Looker tips for users, developers and admins

Enhance your Expression Editing
See how to write & edit complex Looker expressions more easily

Field Picker Filtering
How the Looker Explore field picker’s search/filter feature makes it easy to find fields.

Looker Keyboard Shortcuts
A guide to keyboard shortcuts in Looker and some of the most useful.

Undo & Redo in Explores
A handy trick in Looker Explores to give you undo and redo functionality.

Awesome API
A few examples of handy ways to use Looker’s API

Custom Code Folding
How to fold your LookML and SQL code in arbitrary places to keep your files organised and easy to navigate.

Always require Pull Requests!
Why you should always set your LookML projects to require Pull Requests.

Designing Drills
How to set up customised drilling on any measure.

Debugging Deftly
A few tips that will help you debugging various problems when developing LookML

HTML Header Hack
How to build a header for your dashboards with configurable ‘previous’ and ‘next’ links.

Tips for Looker Developers
A few tips that’ll make your like as a Looker developer better

Love Liquid
Some of the many uses for the Liquid templating language within Looker

Adding a hidden field to a query
How to use the ‘Expanded Share URL’ to add a hidden field to your query