Personalizing user account settings

The Account page lets you configure some of your Looker user account settings. To access this page, select the Profile menu and then select Account.

Changing standard account settings

The top section of the Account page shows your Looker account's settings:

• Profile Picture: If your Looker admin has enabled the Use Gravatar setting, you can create or update the avatar for your account. Select Change Profile Picture to update your account photo.
• First Name: First name that is configured on the account. This setting is editable only if your instance is configured to use email and password for authentication.
• Last Name: Last name that is configured on the account. This setting is editable only if your instance is configured to use email and password for authentication.
• Email: Email address that is associated with the Looker account. This setting cannot be edited.
• Password: If your instance uses password authentication for logging in, this is the password that is associated with the account. Select the Change Password button to set a new password. If your Looker instance has enabled password expiration after a set timeframe, 14 days before your password is set to expire a banner appears within the instance to alert you that you need to reset your password. If you are logged out of Looker and your password expires, you will be guided to reset your password before you log back in to the instance. When resetting your password, you can't reuse your most recent password.
• Time Zone: Default time zone to be used for queries for this user.
• Text Editor Mode: The style of text editor for the LookML IDE. To change your preferred text editor mode, you can choose from Looker's default text editor style, a Vim text editor, or an Emacs text editor.
• Subscription Settings: The types of Looker emails that the user will receive, as described in the Changing your email subscription settings section.

Changing your email subscription settings

You can manage your Looker email subscription settings. Choose whether you want to receive product and event announcements, tips and tricks, and other types of information.

You can view and update these settings in Looker's Preference Center. From the Profile section of your Looker Account page, select Manage your email subscription settings to open the preference center.

Follow these steps to update your preferences for Looker email subscriptions:

1. In Preferences for, Looker fills in the email address from your account settings. If you would prefer a different email address, contact your Looker admin.
2. In Content, select checkboxes for the types of emails you want to receive from Looker.
3. If you want to suspend delivery of Looker emails for three months, or if you want to unsubscribe from all Looker emails, select the corresponding checkbox in Settings.
4. Once you have selected your subscription settings, select Update Preferences.

When you select the Update Preferences button, Looker saves your email subscription preferences and sends you an email confirming your changes. You can return to this page to update your settings anytime by clicking the Manage your email subscription settings link on the Account page.

Conversational Analytics

Preview

This product or feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service Terms section of the Service Specific Terms. Pre-GA products and features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions.

If you are a Conversational Analytics user and your admin has enabled the End User Conversational Analytics (CA) Query Review preview feature, you will see a section for Conversational Analytics:

• End User Conversational Analytics (CA) Query Review: Turn this option on to allow your Conversational Analytics queries to be reviewed by your organization's administrators to improve the system's performance, such as for troubleshooting and agent building. In limited scenarios, authorized Google support may access these logs at your administrator's request. Do not enter restricted confidential or sensitive personal data that is not intended for administrative review.

This setting is enabled by default.

Authentication

The Authentication section on the Account page lets you manage your API keys and device logins.

Mobile App Login

If mobile application access is enabled for your Looker instance, you can sign in to the mobile application on your mobile device by using your instance's login credentials.

Note: The Looker mobile application doesn't support signing in with a QR code. Signing in with a QR code is supported only for the Looker Mobile (Legacy) application.

Managing API keys

If your Looker admin has enabled API keys for you, you'll see the Manage button in the API Keys section. The Manage button opens the API Keys page, which lets you view, create, and delete your personal API keys. While Looker admins can see the client ID portion of your API keys, they cannot see the client secret portion, and they can't manage your API keys for you.

An API key is used to access the Looker API. API keys are created by Looker and consist of a client ID and a client secret. Looker requires an API key to execute commands with the Looker API.

Each row in the API Keys page represents one API key and shows the following attributes for that API key:

• The client ID
• The client secret, which you can view by clicking the Show secret icon
• The date and time that the API key was created
• An optional descriptive purpose for the API key, which you can edit by clicking in the Purpose field or by clicking the Edit Purpose icon
• An option to delete the API key by clicking the Delete icon and then confirming the deletion

Click the Create New API Key button to add a new API key in a new row on the API Keys page.

Click the Use API Explorer button to open the API Explorer, where you can view and run the Looker API methods and types.

OAuth Connection Credentials

If your Looker instance has database connections that use OAuth, such as Snowflake or Google BigQuery, Looker displays a section for OAuth Connection Credentials.

Select Log In to enter your OAuth credentials through an OAuth interface. If you have already logged in, Looker instead displays the options Reauthorize and Log Out.

Select Reauthorize to open the OAuth login page, or select Log Out to log your Looker user account out of the OAuth session.

See the Snowflake and Google BigQuery documentation pages for more information.

Integrations

If your Looker admin has integrated Slack into your instance by using the Slack App service, you must perform a one-time authentication for each Slack workspace before you can access it.

The Slack workspaces that require your authentication are listed in the Integrations section of your user Account page. Select Sign in with Slack to authenticate to a workspace.

If no Slack workspaces require your authentication, Looker displays a note in the Integrations section:

There are no installed integrations. Contact your admin to install an integration.

Once you have successfully authenticated, Looker displays the name of the Slack workspace along with options to revoke authentication.

Additional Details

Your Looker admin can set up additional user attributes that help with customizing your experience in Looker. The Additional Details section displays the values of the user attributes that are configured for your Looker account. It shows a list of all user attributes, with each followed by its assigned value. If your Looker admin has set any of the user attributes to hidden, Looker won't display that value. Instead, the value will be indicated by a series of asterisks.

The Custom Value column indicates if the user attribute value is a custom value. A custom value is a value that is assigned to your user account individually, instead of a value that your account inherited from a group. If the Custom Value switch next to a user attribute is turned on, that user attribute has a custom value.

You may be able to edit some user attributes, depending on how your Looker admin has configured your account. To do so, turn on the Custom Value switch next to a user attribute, enter the value you want, and select Save.

Saving changes

After making changes to any of the options on this page, select the Save button to save your changes.

Note: When you create an account or your organization's administrator creates an account to use the Platform on your behalf, additional information about your use is created, which may collect and use the following information:

• License credentials to ensure that usage is in compliance with the customer's licensing terms. This information includes metadata about users, roles, database connections, server settings, features used, API usage, and Platform version. Information contained in your organization's Looker database used with the Platform, to which Looker have access when we automatically back it up and encrypt it.
• Device information, which may include the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, network information, IP address, and/or Platform version.
• Logins that use external directory or single sign-on services share certain information with Google that we use to authenticate your identity and pre-populate certain forms (for example, user registration) on the Platform. Note that even if a user subsequently stops using the services, Google will retain the information that the user has shared with us.