Start with the meaning.
Build reporting from there.

Bring models, views and explores into one LookML workflow. Review the definitions behind your metrics before they reach the next dashboard.

Explore your workflow Change platform

LOOKER. YOUR NEXT CHAPTER.

Start withLookML models, views and explores
Work with CoDashAuthor, inspect and validate
Your team reviewsA reviewed project to download or deploy

The pillars, in your platform

Follow a metric from definition to delivery.

This page covers Looker and LookML. Supported migration directions are listed separately from native project development.

See how the reporting definitions connect.

Analyze with Looker

You bringYour LookML project
CoDash helps youInspect models, views, explores and dependencies
You take forwardA project assessment

Use the available project metadata to identify complexity and the definitions that need attention.

Explore Analyze Solution: Estate assessment See this workflow

Find where definitions can be brought together.

Rationalize with Looker

You bringRelated reporting assets
CoDash helps youCompare shared fields and calculation evidence
You take forwardCandidates for a more focused portfolio

Owners confirm the intended meaning and reporting coverage before consolidating assets.

Explore Rationalize Solution: Estate rationalization See this workflow

Make the next metric a reviewed definition.

Reporting Studio with Looker

You bringA business question or existing LookML
CoDash helps youRefine views, dimensions, measures and explores
You take forwardLookML changes ready for validation

Continue into dashboard and Look development within the project workspace.

Explore Reporting Studio Solution: Reporting improvement See this workflow

Take the reviewed project to your Looker instance.

Manage with Looker

You bringYour updated LookML project
CoDash helps youValidate references and prepare the deployment
You take forwardA LookML download or deploy handoff

Download the project as a ZIP or deploy through the selected Looker connection.

Explore Manage Solution: BI operations See this workflow

Keep the metric definitions in the migration review.

Migrate with Looker

You bringTableau assets or an existing LookML project
CoDash helps youMap the supported source to its target
You take forwardLookML or Power BI assets to validate

Supported directions are Tableau to Looker and Looker to Power BI. Each has its own conversion scope.

Explore Migrate Solution: Platform modernization See this workflow

Your team reviews the result and decides what reaches production. For recurring work, explore Automate workflow design (preview); execution scope is confirmed per workflow.

Choose the right focus

Which part of the reporting logic needs attention?

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Looker: priorities, capabilities and review
Your priority	CoDash supports	Your team reviews
Define a metric	LookML view, dimension and measure development	Business meaning and calculation behavior
Improve exploration	Explore, dashboard and Look editing	Relationships, references and the questions users can answer
Deliver the project	LookML validation, download and deployment	Readiness for the chosen Looker environment

An example in practice

A revenue definition the team can review together.

An illustrative Looker scenario. Your team confirms scope and acceptance for its own reporting.

A possible Looker review journey

UnderstandTrace the revenue measure through its view and explore.
Work through the changeRefine the definition and the reporting that uses it.
Review the resultValidate the project before downloading or deploying the change.