What’s a small Looker habit that actually made your workflow better?

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Hey all,

Still learning my way around Looker and I’ve noticed that sometimes the smallest changes end up saving the most time later.

For me, cleaning up naming conventions and keeping explores less cluttered already made things way easier to manage. Before that I was just adding stuff everywhere and it got confusing fast :sweat_smile:

Now I’m curious what other people do that genuinely helps in day-to-day work. Doesn’t have to be some advanced enterprise setup either. Could be:

  • a modeling habit

  • dashboard organization tip

  • performance tweak

  • folder structure

  • something you stopped doing after making mistakes early on

Interested in hearing the little things that improved your workflow over time.

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  • I definitely use constants more to help others out for things true across many projects like db catalog names, paths to imported projects, etc.
  • Since we have a hub and spoke project architecture, I use a composite github action to apply same CI checks across all the project repos. It’s still useful even with Looker’s new CI Suite for custom linting checks like LAMS rules
  • I like the concept of “micro dashboards” instead of giant dashboards with tons of a tiles to scroll through. It’s a lot easier now with the new dashboard tabs feature. But even with tabs I like to add a “nav bar” explore tile in all dashboards that link to other core dashboards. So basically once you get to one dash you can get to others easily. I also put an info tile there too so I don’t take up real estate on a dash with an instructions text tile
  • I create my own dashboards in system activity explores to audit and set alerts for administrative things like slow/old scheduled reports, new developers or admin users, etc
  • I also use the link parameter a lot more now so i can use a small explore for a tile but make it easy to send people to a different explore for drilling