Previewing the New Looker Dashboard Experience … and What’s Coming with Looker 7

Looker’s front-end capabilities are getting an upgrade over the coming months, with a preview of the new dashboard experience now available as a Labs feature in the 6.24 release. Here’s one of our internal dashboards running with the new look-and-feel enabled, notice the much wider range of interactive controls that you can now use to filter and select data within your dashboard (click to play embedded video).

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And there’s more…! Looker announced a whole set of new and upgraded front-end capabilities coming with the new Looker 7 release soon including the following new features we tweeted from the audience at the time:

Dynamic Dashboard Controls

Dynamic Dashboard Controls for dynamic control over visualization settings, positions and layout, titles and text and hide/show individual tiles

New Extensions Framework

An Extension Framework for building LOB JS applications within Looker using the Extensions SDK, LookML and git integration

New Developer Portal

Along with a new API Explorer

New Looker Marketplace for App and Extension Installs

The new Looker Marketplace, a one-stop shop for auto-installing Looker data, app, source and viz blocks with auto-setup of data models and data pipeline from SaaS sources

Installing the Facebook Ads App from Looker Marketplace

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Contact us now if you’d like us to help you enable this new dashboard experience or get ready for the Looker 7 release - and build dashboards your users love!