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  1. INTEGRATIONS

Looker

Looker configuration setup details

Last updated 4 months ago

To enable Masthead for Looker, please follow the next steps:

1

Create a permission set with roles

  • In the top navigation bar, go to Admin > Roles and click New Permission Set.

  • Name your permission set "mastheadps".

  • Check the necessary permissions (see list below), and click New Permission Set to save.

access_data
access_data.see_lookml_dashboards
access_data.see_looks
access_data.see_looks.see_user_dashboards
access_data.see_looks.explore
access_data.see_looks.see_lookml
2

Create a user

  • In the top navigation bar, go to Admin > Users and click Add Users.

  • Choose an email address, for example, . You are not required to use a valid email address.

  • Uncheck the Send setup emails option.

  • Select the role you created ("mastheadrole").

  • Click Add Users to save.

3

Set content Folders read access for Masthead user

  • In the top navigation bar, go to Admin > Content Access.

  • Note: At this point, you can decide which folders to give access to.

  • With the Shared folder selected, click Manage Access. If All Users do not already have View or Manage/Edit Access, add the Masthead user you just created with View access.

  • Click Save.

  • Repeat with the Users folder.

4

Ctreate an API key

  • In the top navigation bar, go to Admin > Users and click Edit on the new user you created for Masthead.

  • Click Edit Keys and then New API3 Key.

  • Copy Host URL, Copy Client ID and Client Secret and save it in Masthead (Integrations -> Looker)

5

Looker configuration complete.

masthead@yourdomain.com
Looker permissions
Looker permissions