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This article is about Looker Studio. For Looker documentation, visit https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/intro.

Find your way around Looker Studio

Get a quick orientation to the main elements and features of Looker Studio.

The home page is where you create and access all your Looker Studio assets: reports, data sources, and explorations.

Reports Home legend

  1. Search. Find Looker Studio assets quickly Search icon.
  2.  Options:
    1. Access Google Cloud Console (Looker Studio Pro feature) 
    2. Help and feedback Help options.
    3. User settings User settings.
    4. Manage your Google account Account icon.
  3. Create a new asset (report, data source, or exploration) The Create icon.
  4. Asset type tabs. Display reports, data sources, or explorations.
    My workspace | Team workspaces (Looker Studio Pro feature)
  5. Create a new report
  6. Tutorial and template reports.
  7. Filter the asset list to show recent asset, those owned by you, those shared with you, and assets in the trash.
  8. Asset list. Click an asset to view it.
    1. On the right, use an asset's overflow menu to share, rename, or remove it More options..
    2. Sort assets by name, owner, or date.

Find your way around the report editor

To edit a report, locate it in the asset list, view the asset, then in the upper right, click EditEDIT.

A report in edit mode with a table chart and column chart, and with the column chart Properties menu Setup and Style tabs open.

Report editor legend

  1. Logo and report name. Click the logo to return to the Looker Studio home page.
  2. Menu bar. Many menu functions can also be accessed by right-clicking a component.
  3. (From left to right:)
    1. Reset . Restore the report to its default settings.
    2. Share Share icon
      1. Invite other people Share icon
      2. Schedule delivery Schedule report delivery icon
      3. Get report link Link 
      4. Embed report Embed
      5. Download report Download
    3. View Visibility icon. Switch between edit and view mode.
    4. More options More options.
      1. Make a copy Copy icon.
      2. Refresh data Refresh
    5. Help Help options.
    6. Manage your Google account Account icon.
  4. Undo | Redo 
  5. Selection mode 
  6. Zoom 
  7. Add page 
  8. Add data  
  9. Add a chart 
  10. Add a community visualization 
  11. Add interactive viewer controls 
  12. Add text, images, lines, and shapes 
  13. Open the Theme and layout panel
  14. Visualization picker. Lets you change the selected chart's visualization type.
  15. Properties panel. Lets you setup and stylize the selected component.
  16. Data panel. Access all the data currently added to the report.
  17. Panel manager. Hide or show the properties and data panels.
  18. Table visualization, selected.
  19. A bar chart, not selected.
  20. BigQuery BI engine indicator.

Find your way around the data source editor

To edit a data source used by your report:

  1. Edit your report.
  2. In the menus, select Resource > Manage added data sources.
  3. Locate the data source in the list, then to the right, click Edit Edit.
 
  1. Data source name. Click to change the name.
  2. Version history. View and restore previous versions of the data source Restore.
    1. Next to version history is Share this data source with other people Share icon .
  3. Data source options:
    1. Data credentials. Determines who can view the data that is provided by this data source.
    2. Data freshness. Balances data updates with report performance.
    3. Community visualizations access. Allows this data source to provide data to community visualizations.
    4. Field editing in reports. Lets report editors change field names and aggregations, apply analytical functions, and set field display options without needing to edit the data source.
  4. Make a copy of this data source.
  5. Create report. Create a new report from this data source.
  6. Explore. Create a new exploration from this data source.
  7. Add a field. Create a calculated field or add a custom group.
  8. Edit connection. The data source owner can reconnect the data source.

    Filter by email address. Add row level security to your data.
  9. Fields. Dimensions appear in green chips, metrics in blue chips, and parameters in purple chips. Click a field to give it a new name. To perform other field actions, click More More options..
  10. Field type. Determines the kind of data that is contained in the field. Click the drop-down menu to change the type.
    Changing field types can have a big impact on your reports.
  11. Aggregation. Determines how the field is summarized. Click the drop-down menu to change the aggregation. Fields with AUTO aggregation can't be changed.
  12. Description. Add a description to any field. For Looker and Search Ads 360 connections, the description is automatically populated from the data source.

    When the Show field descriptions style option is enabled for table charts, users can view the field description in a tooltip.  Show field descriptions is automatically enabled for charts that are connected to a Looker or Search Ads 360 data source.  
  13. Calculated fields and custom groups. Click fx to edit the field formula.
  14. Refresh fields. Click to update the data source with any structural changes that were made to the underlying data set.
  15. Field count. Displays the number of fields in the data source.

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