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Creates a dashboard in Looker.

Input Fields

  • Dashboard Info

    • Title (text): Dashboard title
    • Description (text): Description of the dashboard
    • Hidden? (boolean): If the dashboard is hidden
    • Refresh interval (text): How often the dashboard refreshes. The refresh rate can be any number (without decimals) of seconds, minutes, hours or days.
    • Load Configuration (text): configuration that governs how the dashboard loading will happen.
    • Space ID (text): ID of the space used. required. Found in the URL of the space. (e.g. with URL https://yourcompany.looker.com/spaces/20 , the Space ID would be 20.)
    • Background Color (text): To change the background of the dashboard. The color value can take a hex string like #2ca6cd or a CSS named color string like mediumblue.
    • Show Title? (boolean): To display the title.
    • Title Color (text): To change the color of the title. Can be in hex or a CSS named color string.
    • Show Filters Bar? (boolean): To display the filters bar.
    • Tile Background Color (text): Colors can be in hex or a CSS named color string.
    • Tile Text Color (text): Colors can be in hex or a CSS named color string.
    • Text Tile Text Color (text): Colors can be in hex or a CSS named color string.

  • Dashboard Elements More help with examples here

    • Look ID (text): The ID of the Look
    • Type (text): Type of Element (text, tables, single_value, looker_single_record, looker_column, looker_area, looker-pie, looker_bar, looker_scatter, looker_donut_mulitples, looker_geo_coordinates, looker_geo_choropleth).
    • Listen (text): Dashboards can have filters that allow users to change the data behind dashboard elements. In order for a filter to impact an element, the element must be setup to “listen” for that filter.
    • Refresh Interval (text): The refresh interval for the element.
    • Note Text (text): Text for a note.
    • Note Display (text): Determines where a note is displayed on an element. above places the note at the top of an element, below places it at the bottom of an element, and hover requires the user to hover their mouse over the element in order to see the note.
    • Note State (text): Collapsed or expanded.
    • Title Text (text): Text tile title text.
    • Subtitle Text (text): Subtitle tile title text.
    • Body Text (text): Text tile body text.
    • Look Title (text): look

  • more help for queries 

    • Query ID (number): Query ID
    • User ID (number): User ID
    • Description (text): Description
    • Last Updater ID (number): The ID of the user who last updated the Look.
    • Query Model (text): model
    • Query View (text): view
    • Query Fields (list of text): fields
    • Query Pivots (list of text): pivots
    • Query Fill Fields (list of text): fill fields
    • Query Filters (object): filters.
    • Query Filter Expression (text): Filter expression
    • Query Sorts (list of strings): sorts
    • Query Limit (text): limit
    • Query Column Limits (text): column limit
    • Query Total? (boolean): total
    • Query Row Total (text): raw total
    • Query Runtime (number): runtime
    • Vis Config (object): Visualization Configuration
    • Filter Config (object): Filter Configuration
    • Visible UI Sections (text): Visible UI sections
    • Query Dynamic Fields (list of text): dynamic fields
    • Client ID (text): client id
    • Query Timezone _(text):  _Query timezone

  • Dashboard Layouts

    • Type (text): type
    • Active? (boolean): if it is active
    • Column Width (number): Column width
    • Width (number): width of the dashboard
    • Dashboard Element ID (number): ID of dashboard element added.
    • Row (number): Row
    • Column (number): Column
    • Height (number): Height

  • Dashboard Filters

    • Name (text): Name of filter
    • Title (text): Name of title
    • Type (text): Type of filter; date, number, string, or field.
    • Default Value (text): default value of the filter.
    • Model (text): Model of the filter (required if type=field).
    • Explore (text): Explore of filter; if type = field
    • Dimension (text): Dimension of the filter; if type= field.
    • Listens To Filters (list of text): An array of listeners for faceted filters.

Output Fields

  • Dashboard
    • Dashboard ID (text): The ID for the new dashboard.