Tableau to Looker Conversion Report
This topic provides a comprehensive report of the Tableau to Looker conversion along with a detailed report of its execution stage.
In This Topic:
BI Conversion Report
This topic provides a comprehensive report of Tableau BI objects that are transformed to Looker equivalent BI objects.
- Total BI Objects: Displays the number of BI objects. It also gives a segregated view of successfully converted objects and failed objects.
- Status: Provides status of the BI Conversion stage.
- Description: A brief description of the stage is displayed.
- Time Taken for Execution: The time taken for conversion.
BI Objects
This section shows transformed artifacts containing datasets and reports. The left panel lists all the transformed artifacts along with its conversion status. The right panel shows information about datasets and reports within the artifact. It includes information about its type, status, and remarks. Remarks displays an error message if the dataset or report fails to convert. It helps you understand the error and guides you to fix it.
Package
This section provides the converted artifacts which can be executed directly on the target platform. Select to download the converted artifacts for offline use.
Here, you can see the Looker equivalent artifacts which include connection (created when the Use Existing Database Connection toggle is turned off in BI configuration page), lookml, project, git branch, updated project (required to update the git in the project) APIs along with lookml and looks (visuals) artifacts.
The lookml folder contains three types of lookml file ̶ explores, model, and view.
- The explores.lkml file contains information about the relationship between views.
- The model.lkml file contains the connection details of the database.
- The views.lkml files contain table details used in the dataset.
In the looks folder, you can see all the converted looks or visuals such as line discreate graph, dual line graph, etc.
Execution Report
The Execution report provides information about the execution of transformed Tableau reports.
- Status: Status of the Execution stage.
- Description: Description of the Execution stage.
- Time Taken for Execution: Time taken to execute the transformed scripts.
- Total Scripts: The total number of scripts used in the Execution stage.
Scripts
This topic lists all the transformed artifacts that have been executed. The left panel lists the scripts along with its execution status. The right panel shows information of the selected script. It includes execution status, time taken for execution and description.