Wil Gieseler

I think this can be made to work, we've got some other things happening in this space that may make this a bit easier in the relatively near term.

I believe sending dashboards is supported via webhooks. The Slack Action (which is different than Lookerbot) should support sending dashboard PDFs today: https://docs.looker.com/admin-options/platform/actions

Oops to clarify I believe _Looker_ supports sending dashboards to webhooks, but Lookerbot does not. Are you talking about receiving it via Lookerbot or by some custom webhook service you've...

We are in the process of moving the Slack Action to use OAuth rather than Slack's legacy token, so that should become an option in the near future for you....

@bayyar Yes, we are hoping for a timeline of one or two months for updating the Slack action to use OAuth. A future version of Looker will support the underpinning...

I'm reluctant to give up being able to copy-and-paste values and drill, plus the render to image takes much longer than rendering inline with Slack. I'm hoping Slack eventually adds...

Yea, it's a little weird at the moment. The reason is so you can choose which filters to expose to the Slackbot via dashboard filters.

You can't choose which filters to expose on a Look currently – all the filters on the query are exposed by the Look. It's often the case that a dashboard...

Yep, totally. I get how dashboards are a bit of an ugly solution here. We're definitely looking into some ways to make it easier to set up Slack commands.

Sorry about that! We'll improve the README. To get API 3 credentials follow these steps: 1. Find a user in the "Users" section of the "Admin" panel in Looker 2....