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Rill is a tool for effortlessly transforming data sets into powerful, opinionated dashboards using SQL. BI-as-code.

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As a dashboard developer, I want to be able to more easily auto-populate all dimensions in my dashboard

AndrewRTsao opened this issue · comments

Currently, developers have to manually update the YAML config of the metrics_view after auto-populating a dashboard. For some of our customers, this can be an onerous process if the underlying model is very wide and the auto-populate doesn't capture all the underlying columns. For example, imagine if you have 500 columns in your table and you want to bring in everything as a dimension. This will require either adding these dimensions one-by-one and creating some kind of script to generate the YAML config block for dimensions.

We should ideally provide by some kind of checkbox or configurable flag when generating a dashboard to indicate that the developer wants to bring in "all" dimensions from the underlying model. This will greatly simplify and speed up the dashboard deployment process, including removing a point of friction that impacts QOL and ease-of-deploy.