Data sources

Looker

8min

Prerequisites:

Only a Looker Admin can complete the following steps. If you are not an Admin you can invite the appropriate person to your Rollstack organization to complete the configuration.

Supported versions:

We support Looker Version 23 and above.

Setup guide:

Enable Embedding in Looker:

In your Looker admin page, go to Embed

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Copy this URL: https://*.rollstack.com then add it to the Embedded domain allowlist

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Finally, generate an embed secret and copy the value

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Add Looker data source

Head back to Rollstack:

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Open the Data sources page

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Click on Add data source

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Select Looker

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If you are an admin, click Yes then follow the detailed instructions



User attributes

This section describes how you can administrate your user attributes.

If your user attributes is not hidden it will automatically propagate to our connection and no action item is required on your end.

However, if you are using hidden user attributes and if those user attributes are needed to execute queries or display visualizations, it is necessary to provide the name and the value of the attributes

You can set both global and user-specific user attributes

At the data source level:

If you set the name and/or value user attributes, these will automatically propagate to all users.

If you don't want to have common values for all users, we suggest only setting the name with an empty value

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At the user level:

You can also override the globally set user attributes by providing user attributes values for each user. To do so:

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Open the Data source user management page

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Choose your user and Click on Modify

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Set new user attributes

Looker connection testing

You do not need admin credentials to set up and test the connection, but we highly recommend inviting a Looker admin to manage your data source. Only Looker admins can create API keys for individual accounts. Looker admin can even use non-admin API keys to test the connection in the admin settings.

However, we highly recommend using admin credentials during the connection testing step. This will make the integration work seamlessly. For example, API keys don't necessarily propagate all user authorizations.

Updated 03 Jun 2024
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