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Yes +1 defintately.

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Regarding those icons - could you reference a look or a visualization instead (whether within looker or outside looker)? So you could have a summary statistic or miniature line graph where the icons are?

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Thanks for the code @krishpotluri - Changed up the code a bit and made it horizontal instead the vertical on the side.

@Nate_Holli I believe you can essentially reference almost anything that has a URL. However, if you do reference something else that isnā€™t a dashboard, it wonā€™t have that ā€œtoggle viewā€ because you would need to add these titles to all of the pages and they would need to look identical (in terms of size, location, height, etc.).

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Hello Everyone!

Can anyone help with how to handle avoiding opening the tile without letting the left icons disappear.

I created similar tiles on the left but when i click on a tile which links to another dash (what weā€™re trying to achieve) , I have to hit back everytime to come to the main dash which has all the icons on the left.

Just wondering how did you achieve that @krishpotluri .

Thanks

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Can filters in one tab apply to all other tabs, though each tab is independent by its own

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You actually need to add the menu on every ā€œpagesā€ where you want to see the menu.

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Another way to clean up your dashboard code while centralizing the left-bar is possible with the extends feature on Looker dashboards. Documentation here.

Essentially you can write the left_bar.dashboard code as just the nav bar and then include one line in each of the new dashboards with extends: left_bar

If you have a few components you want to add to a new dashboard, you can group them as a list in the extends line and they should all come in. Once they are included via extends, you can rewrite any attribute of any element as long as you know the name: value for that element along with the name of the attribute you want to change.

I use this with my teams top nav bar and it is a lifesaver/code saver :wink:

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you can create a link via html and do aā€¦..

<a href=ā€add-link-here&Filter_name={{_filters[ā€˜filter_view.filter_nameā€™]}}ā€>;;

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Any updates on the possibility of inheriting filter values among these tabbed dashboards? So far all Iā€™ve known is its not possible to apply liquid in text tiles.

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@avcookiedough Yes, you can inherit filter values. Hereā€™s a post discussing this

https://community.looker.com/dashboards-looks-7/passing-dashboard-filters-in-a-link-to-another-dashboard-5141

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Hi

Could any one help me , I am new at looker and I wanna make an interactive dashboard with tabbed dashboard

@krishpotluri could you help me and give me an idea where exactly can i put that HTM code in lookml ,

Thank you all in advance !

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Will this ever be a native feature? This post is 4 years old, and weā€™re still stuck with a work-around. Every modern BI tool provides tabbed dashboards at this point - including Looker Studio.

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I donā€™t think itā€™s possible - this is something I miss from my Tableau days!

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Nice!

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I hear ya! I will pass along to our product team!

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My first search result is providing me a nice tutorial on how to build a Typescript (?) app in the marketplace to do this. Just great, 2 or 3 more weeks of figuring out how to do a simple task.

The second search result is a confirmation that there is no way as of 2024.

I literally cannot believe Looker does not have this as a native feature.

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I tried to follow the instructions of the Official Tabbed dashboards Looker documentation (typescript app), but the instructions are not very clear, and I still did not get to visualise the Looker UI on my local machine.
How can I get further help on this. I want to have this for many use cases and am wondering how come this is not part of the standard applications in Looker already.