How to allow dimension/measure tooltip in Looker to show the description to user when pointing over name of the object in a Look (Table)?
- Datameer, Inc.
- January 25, 2018
We can enable tooltip for dimensions and measures by adding descriptions in their respective LookMLs. Please consider the examples below:
measure: gross_margin {
description: This measure provides Gross Margin on each sale.
type: sum
sql: ${TABLE}.gross_margin ;;
}dimension: product {
description: This field provides the name of the Product sold.
type: string
sql: ${TABLE}.product ;;
}Once the description has been added for the fields in LookML, the users would start seeing the tooltip for these fields as they hover over them in the Explore window.
