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Since we can't assign the date range control a value from the url, we need to send the parameter of start and end date to each of the datasource added to the report because we can't re-use the same URL param for each datasource we are getting so close to the 2048 limits this is scary.

• datetimestart = 49char
• datetimeend = 49char
• timezone = 38char
• speicifiid = 64char

total 200 char that is for each datasource in addition to the report url. The url looks quite ridiculous with the same field repeated multipletime

The bizarre thing here is, Data Studio already supports using one input box control to enter the value of a parameter, which then auto-magically applies to all data sources. Yet, the URL is not accepting the same syntax. Given that, there's another (incomplete) workaround here that involves serving the Data Studio iframe over a reverse proxy, which in turn enables programmatic entry of the parameter value into the off-screen control boxes via JavaScript. However, this solution is incomplete since it breaks some of the CORS requests made by the embedded page (affecting styles).

I'm not sure how the single-input-box control is implemented that it applies to all data sources, but clearly that's already working - we just need to trigger this existing logic from the URL.

When you said that, I thought, maybe there was a way to simply use the url param to send a value to the input box that is assigned to a parameters... Because I also saw the behavior you described, but never thought anything about it.

To get the inputbox Id, I activated the feature "Enable view filters in report link". Then I added a inputbox assigned to a dimension. Then I copied the url, pasted it and entered a value in the input box. In Edit mode, in the inputbox, I changed the dimension to a paramters. Then I tried the url Again No luck, it does not want to pass it to the parameters... https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/***************/page/p_j7ehxzp3uc?params=%7B%22df572%22:%22include%25EE%2580%25800%25EE%2580%2580EQ%25EE%2580%2580--MYVALUE--%22%7D

About the fact that you can enter a parameter in 1 input box and it magically populate the other box really seems to the same behavior as the filters If you have ds1 with a field name "color", but you apply this filter to ds2 where it has the same field name (the filter will first look for the same id, then match the name if possible). It really feels like the parameters are acting the same.

The fact that we could have assigned the inputbox a value, but it's not accepted because it's a parameters is quite sad. I really thought this could have worked with the logic you explained. maybe the componentId changes when assigned to a parameters, I don't know. do you have documentation about the control boxes via javascript?

Same observations here.. Both "view filters in report link" and formal "parameters" seem to be passed via the same exact "params" URL query parameter. However, for some reason only the filters use the global (report/page) scope when passed this way, while parameters operate at the data source level (only when passed over the URL). It also seems impossible to set the parameter from a page filter (another limitation of Data Studio..)

I should also note that pure filtering (without relying on formal "parameters") could actually do the job in a lot of cases, even more advanced ones [1][2]. But parameters may be unavoidable, for example, to pass the timezone to the data source query, and pure filtering won't work in such cases.

I've documented an example setup here, please let me know if you have any questions on it. This requires serving the HTML page over Nginx or a similar reverse proxy, to be able to access the embedded page content from JavaScript - otherwise, it's impossible due to browser's cross-origin policy.

[1] https://www.edudatastudio.com/2020/07/customizing-data-studio-report-delivery.html?lr=1

[2] https://stephane-hamel.medium.com/smart-data-studio-embedding-b36c6fc9a8ac

Thanks a lot. I'll have the devs to look into that, i mean the nginx implementation, that could help us regarding anohter of our needs. Appreciate your help.

Nope, all they do with the latest changelog we can see :

• change the name to looker studio
• make looker studio compatible with looker
• make looker studio comptabile with google analytics 4
• make right panels collapsable
• ignore the complaints regarding the modification they did
  • https://support.google.com/looker-studio/thread/198196449?hl=en&msgid=198895614
  • https://support.google.com/looker-studio/thread/186560752?hl=en&msgid=189135605
  • https://support.google.com/looker-studio/thread/167758670/announcing-the-new-data-panel?hl=en

Have a look to the changelog yourself, basically all they do is update their connector to bigquery of Google Analytics

• 2022 https://support.google.com/looker-studio/answer/13139222
• 2023 https://support.google.com/looker-studio/answer/11521624?hl=en if loook in their community forum, you will see a lot of unresponded thread. People are pretty much on their own with looker studio

Best of luck

I have created dashboard in looker studio and there are 7 different widgets which need 7 store_id as parameter . Is there any way to pass single parameter from UI which should reflect all 7 widgets in dashboard. As of now.

var globalVar="store_id-123";

var params = { "1.store_uuid": globalVar, "2.store_uuid": globalVar, "3.store_uuid": globalVar, "4.store_uuid": globalVar, "5.store_uuid": globalVar, "6.store_uuid": globalVar, "7.store_uuid": globalVar };

I am passing above params json object which have repetitive values which doesn't look good

Sample dashboard URL:- https://lookerstudio.google.com/embed/reporting/cde9cc/page/n5D?params=%7B%221.store_uuid%22%3A%22115ed254-d826-11eb-bb

Could you please provide solution asap . I am stuck on this.