Chrome Extension
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The Select Star Chrome Extension allows users to get their data context side-by-side their dashboards and tables. With the Extension, users have easy access to their metadata while they're looking at dashboards. This allows users to keep their focus in one place, removing the need to switch between tabs or applications.
Users can install the extension individually by following the steps below, or admins can perform an for all users.
Step 1. Go to
Step 2. Click Add to Chrome
And that's it. The extension should be available to use after you log in via the extension.
Supported tools:
BI Tools: Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Sigma, Mode, ThoughtSpot
Warehouses: Snowflake, Databricks
When using BI Tools, you can open dashboards with one click. Select Star detects when there is a matching page in the catalog and will open to that dashboard or table's catalog page.
Some pages in the application are not yet supported. If you try to navigate to any of these pages in the Chrome Extension, it will open up the page in the web app.
Excluded pages are:
Documentation (metrics, glossary terms, pages)
Database and schema pages
BI folder pages
Collection pages
Tag pages
Team and user profile pages
All settings and admin pages
Note, some table and dashboard tabs are also excluded from the Extension
Tables: Queries & Joins, Related, Data Quality, Preview, Lineage>downstream dashboards
Dashboards: Top Users, Data Quality, Lineage > Source Tables
