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Studio in Looker incorporates the Looker Studio report creation and viewing experience directly into your Looker instance. From Looker, you can create a Looker Studio Pro report, add embedded data sources to visualize your data, and then save the report in Looker's content management system.
During Preview, some Looker Studio features and resources may not be available or may behave differently from how they behave in Looker Studio.
To help you understand the key differences between Studio in Looker and Looker Studio, this page lists the availability of features or resources for both products and describes any behavioral differences between Looker Studio and Studio in Looker.
For a comprehensive list of Looker instance requirements to enable and use Studio in Looker, see Enabling and disabling Studio in Looker.
Availability of Looker Studio features in Studio in Looker
The following table indicates the availability of Looker Studio features and Looker functionality in Studio in Looker during Preview. This table lists only those features that are part of Studio in Looker's report viewing, editing, and sharing experience and is based on the type of authentication that your Looker instance uses. You can still access any Looker Studio Pro resources that are unavailable in Studio in Looker directly within Looker Studio.
Feature or capability
Availability
Connect to and use data sources
These actions are typically performed in Looker Studio and are also part of the Studio in Looker environment. Only Owner's credentials are supported.
Looker Studio Pro features that behave differently in Studio in Looker
The following table describes how features that are available in both Studio in Looker and standalone Looker Studio Pro behave differently from one another, specifically during Preview.
Looker Studio Pro behavior
Studio in Looker behavior
Connectors and data sources
You can use all available connectors to create data sources.
The Looker connector is supported.
Data sources can be embedded or reusable.
Only embedded data sources are supported.
You can view and manage reusable data sources in the Data sources tab on the Looker Studio home page and in the Resource > Manage added data sources panel in the report editor.
No option to manage reusable data sources is available.
These data source credentials are supported:
Owner's credentials
Viewer's credentials
Service Account
Only Viewer's credentials are supported.
Report creation
The Create button lets you create reports, data sources, explorations, and team workspaces.
The Create button lets you create Looker Studio Pro reports only. The remaining options apply to Looker assets, such as dashboards or database connections.
New reports are automatically saved and can be viewed or shared immediately.
You must click Save and share to make your new report permanent.
You need to save the report only once; afterwards, the report is saved automatically.
Once you've saved the report, Reset, View, and More options become available.
There is no automatic logout option.
You can configure Looker instances to log you out after a period of inactivity. If you are logged out automatically before you save a new report, you may lose your changes. We recommend that you save your report shortly after you create it.
Sharing and content management
You can share individual reports with specific users and Google Groups. You can also manage access by moving reports into team workspaces and folders.
Sharing and content management is handled by storing reports in Looker folders, in the same way as for other Looker content types. There is no direct sharing of reports to individual email aliases or groups.
Content lives in either your Owned by me or Sandbox locations, or in a team workspace.
Content lives in Looker folders. There is no connection between Studio in Looker and Looker Studio. You cannot access a report that was created in Studio in Looker when using Looker Studio, and you cannot access other Looker Studio Pro reports in Looker when using Studio in Looker.
The Location field in the reports list shows where your content lives.
The Location field doesn't appear in the reports list.
Removing a report places it into the Looker Studio Trash. You can delete the report permanently by viewing the report in the Trash, clicking Options, and then selecting Delete forever.
Removing a report places it into the Trash folder of the Looker instance. You cannot restore or view the deleted report.
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