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Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook

You're reading from   Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook Create BI solutions and data applications to explore and share insights in real time

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560956
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Looker 2. Chapter 2: Configuring Views and Models in a LookML Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Working with Data in Explores 4. Chapter 4: Customizing and Serving Dashboards 5. Chapter 5: Making Dashboards Interactive through Dynamic Elements 6. Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Looker 7. Chapter 7: Integrating Looker with Other Applications 8. Chapter 8: Organizing the Looker Environment 9. Chapter 9: Administering and Monitoring Looker 10. Chapter 10: Preparing to Develop Looker Applications 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with LookML files

Your LookML project can contain multiple different files. We already worked with view and model files, and we could see what the folders are for (models and views folders). You can create a new folder or file by pressing + (Figure 2.19).

Figure 2.19 – LookML files

Figure 2.19 – LookML files

Let’s add some more elements to enrich our LookML project.

Getting ready

Make sure you are in your LookML project environment with Development Mode activated (see the blue bar at the top of your Looker web page).

How to do it...

Let’s add some information about our LookML project:

  1. Click on the README.md file – in there, you will see some explanations about Looker; keep it as it is.
  2. Let’s add another document file to add some information about our e-commerce project – click the + sign near File Browser and click on Create Document.
  3. Name the document AboutThisProject and click Create.
  4. Click Edit...
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Business Intelligence with Looker Cookbook
Published in: May 2024
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800560956
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