"Unknown field 'X' in explore Y" or "field_filter does not support dimensions outside of the current model" for field_filter.

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Last Tested: Jan 21, 2019

TL/DR: check for include: *.dashboard in other model files.

This error can pop up from normal Unknown Field reasons so check those too (missing join, fields: , etc)

The issue is that the dashboard is included in a model that doesn’t contain the necessary joins. Usually you have an include: *.dashboard parameter in another model than the dashboard is usually referring to.

You’ll either want to comment out the include: or replace the *.dashboard with specific dashboard names.