Creating report templates

Report templates allow you to share your reports widely, outside your organization, and with the public. Templates allow others to use your reports with their own data. In Chapter 4, Google Looker Studio Overview, you learned about what report templates are, where to find them, and how to create reports from a template. In this section, you will learn how to create and share a report template.

Template creation is a very simple process and any report can be turned into a template just by adding /preview to the end of its URL. However, there are a few things that need to be kept in mind and followed through to ensure its wider utility.

First and foremost, templates should be based on standard schema data sources or connectors. This makes sure that others will be able to use their own data with the template and create reports from it as needed. Templates made out of non-standard and custom data sources have limited use, if any. You can either share your...