Making Dashboards Interactive through Dynamic Elements
In this chapter, we will dive into the art of making your Looker dashboards interactive. Static dashboards provide information, but interactive dashboards empower your users to explore and engage directly with their data. You will learn different techniques to achieve this interaction.
Looker uses Liquid to make Explores and dashboards more interactive. Liquid is a templating language that Looker uses to create dynamic content. It is a powerful tool that allows the creation of complex and personalized experiences for users.
Liquid is a relatively simple language to learn, but it can be very powerful once you master it. It is used in conjunction with LookML to build more flexible, dynamic code.
Liquid is a versatile tool that can be used in Looker for many purposes, including creating dynamic links and images, customizing drill navigation, and applying conditional formatting based on the data. There are several places in...