Looker Studio Advanced Setup
This article is dedicated to the advanced setup of the Looker Studio destination. All the steps here assume that you already have your destination set up. To find the basic instructions on how to set up the Looker Studio destination, refer to this article. To access the advanced settings, open the Destination section of your data flow and choose to edit it.
Table of contents
Note: You can define additional settings after you run the data flow successfully at least 1 time.
General destination settings
Date range dimension setting
Learn how to use the Date range dimension setting in this article.
Parameters & calculated fields
Advanced settings
Report/data source URL
- If you leave this field empty, clicking "Generate Data Source" / "View results" will create a new Looker Studio report.
- If you want to link your data flow to the specific Looker Studio report, copy your report's URL (or the data source URL in Looker), and paste it into the 'Report/data source URL' field:
Once you define the value here, clicking the "Generate Data Source" button on the data flow's edit page will redirect to this specified link:
Same for the "View results" button: after the data flow runs, you can click the 'View Results' button on the data flow page, and you'll be automatically redirected to the report.
Fields grouping
You can also enable 'Fields grouping' to group columns using the [GroupName]: [Field Name] pattern. To do it, simply enable the 'Fields grouping' toggle:
With this setting enabled, fields will be grouped by the pattern:
