Personalizing user account settings

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

This documentation page includes the following sections:

Changing standard account settings
Changing your email subscription settings
Managing your API keys
Configuring OAuth connection credentials
Configuring integrations with third-party services
Changing custom user settings
Saving changes

Changing standard account settings

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

Profile Picture: If your Looker admin has enabled it, you can use the Gravatar app to select or create an avatar for your account.
First Name: First name that is configured on the account.
Last Name: Last name that is configured on the account.
Email: Email address that is associated with the Looker account (this field is not editable).
Password: Password that is associated with the account. Select the Change Passwordbutton to set a new password.
Time Zone: Default time zone to be used for queries for this user.
Development Mode: The user's Git branch for LookML development. This field defaults to the branch created when the user account was created, but you can select other branches.
Text Editor Mode: The style of text editor for the LookML IDE . 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 Profilesection of your Looker Accountpage, select Manage your email subscription settingsto open the preference center.

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

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.
In Content, select checkboxes for the types of emails you want to receive from Looker.
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.
Once you have selected your subscription settings, select Update Preferences.

When you select the Update Preferencesbutton, 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 settingslink on the Accountpage.

Managing API keys

If you are using a Looker (Google Cloud core) instance and your Looker admin has enabled API keys for you , you'll see the Managebutton in the API Keyssection. The Managebutton opens the API Keyspage, which lets you view, create, and delete your personal API keys.

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 Keyspage 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 secreticon
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 Purposefield or by clicking the Edit Purposeicon
An option to delete the API key by clicking the Deleteicon and then confirming the deletion

Click the Create New API Keybutton to add a new API key in a new row on the API Keyspage.

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

Configuring 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 Into enter your OAuth credentials through an OAuth interface. If you have already logged in, Looker instead displays the options Reauthorizeand Log Out.

Select Reauthorizeto open the OAuth login page, or select Log Outto log your Looker user account out of the OAuth session.

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

Configuring 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 Integrationssection of your user Accountpage. Select Sign in with Slackto authenticate to a workspace.

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

 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.

Changing custom user settings

Your Looker admin can set up additional user attributes that help with customizing your experience in Looker. The Additional Detailssection 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 Valuecolumn 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 Valueswitch 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 Valueswitch 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 Savebutton 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.