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Exposing a new lookml configuration in dbt2looker

If you'd like to expose some new lookml config (e.g. a dimension or measure field) you can follow the pattern in this commit: https://github.com/lightdash/dbt2looker/commit/b9e799969aad2930efd1bbc3d01b5a2a77db9d60

In general:

  • Update models.py with the new schema.yml fields you'd like to expose
  • Map new fields to lookml in generator.py
  • Update the /examples directory with an example of your feature in the dbt pages.yml and the pages.view output

Local testing

Instead of setting up the example project with valid config, etc, the easiest is to point to a locally available, valid DBT project where manifest.json and catalog.json is already generated.

Make your changes in this repo locally, then run poetry install.

Then generate lookml files with the local version of dbt2looker with the following command:

poetry run dbt2looker --tag YOUR_TAG --target-dir TARGET_DIR_OF_TEST_PROJECT --project-dir PROJECT_DIR_OF_TEST_PROJECT --output-dir LOOKML_OUTPUT_DIR_OF_TEST_PROJECT