Forgive me for the late response, @anya.conti.
Also, thank you for the detailed follow-up!
Does reporting validation work on canvas dashboards? I thought reporting validation only worked for legacy dashboards, and canvas dashboard validation would fall under AML validation based on this other thread I was having with holistics?
Yes, you are absolutely right. The Reporting Validation feature helps check if any non-code dependencies (such as legacy reports) are affected by the changes in the as-code objects.
I apologize if my previous follow-up question was misleading in this regard.
- Right now, the Reporting Validation feature has helped locate the errors, so you can resolve them one by one, but this is unrealistic if we have hundreds of dashboards (which we currently do in looker and are in the process of migrating over)
- Even with reporting validation, once something is broken, it’s sometimes hard to tell exactly how it was set up before (ex. broken filters won’t let you see the values they were filtering on, I’m not sure how easily I could check formatting of a broken field, etc) which a find and replace should help with
Well understood! I can see how being able to find and replace in bulk would come in handy here.
I’ve already added it to our backlog, and are forwarding to my team for further discussion.
Let me get back to you when there’s any update.
Cheers, Anya!