Checked in LookML for a model, event view, and dashboard covering volume over time, trip starts versus ends, distance, and status changes. The files were written for import and re-export; nothing was opened in the product.
- What worked
- LookML was a concrete, git-friendly way to meet the self-serve dashboard requirement without pointing charts at production. The intended first tiles mapped cleanly onto warehouse event fields.
- What got in the way
- Include paths versus project-root or absolute dashboard globs were unclear, and an optional manifest was skipped. Explicit dashboard includes were expected to warn because Looker also auto-discovers those files. Import was never validated.