Step 1: Select a Google Cloud project

Every Looker Studio Pro subscription is associated with a Google Cloud project that hosts their Looker Studio Pro content. Google Cloud projects form the basis for creating, enabling, and using all Google Cloud services, including managing APIs, enabling billing, adding and removing collaborators, and managing permissions for Google Cloud resources.

When setting up a Looker Studio Pro subscription, you can select an existing Google Cloud project to host your Looker Studio Pro content, or you can create a new one. If you're setting up a subscription from the Google Cloud console, first make sure that your selected Google Cloud project meets the requirements that are described on this page, and then proceed to Step 2: Add people to the subscription.

Project requirements

The project that you choose to host your Looker Studio Pro content must meet the following requirements:

  • The project must be owned by your organization.

  • The project must be linked to a billing account. Learn how to set up a Google Cloud billing account.

  • You must have the Looker Studio Pro Manager role on the project. Project owners already have the same underlying permissions as those who are assigned to this role. Learn more about Cloud identity roles.

  • The project must not currently be in use for a Pro subscription.

  • You must belong to the same organization that owns the Google Cloud project that is used for the subscription.

Learn more about identifying projects.

Select an existing Google Cloud project

To select an existing Google Cloud project, follow these steps:

  1. In the Get Looker Studio Pro dialog, click Select project.
  2. Click Google Cloud project and select a project. Looker Studio will validate that this project meets the project requirements for Looker Studio Pro.
  3. Click Next.

Create a new Google Cloud project

If you're subscribing to Looker Studio Pro from within Looker Studio, you can create a new project directly from this step. To create a project, in addition to those listed previously you'll need to meet the following requirements:

  • You must accept the Google Cloud Platform Agreement.
  • You must have the Projects Creator IAM role or a custom role that grants you the resourcemanager.projects.create permission.
  • You must provide a new project ID (one that hasn't been used before).
  • The project ID that you provide must meet naming conventions.
  • You must provide a valid billing account.

Learn more about creating a Google Cloud project.

To create a new project, follow these steps:

  1. In the Get Looker Studio Pro dialog, click Create new project.
  2. Enter a project ID for your new project, following the required naming conventions that are described on the Creating and managing projects documentation page. Don't include sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII) or security data in your project ID.
  3. Click Choose a billing account and select a valid billing account for your Google Cloud project.
  4. Click Create.

Use Looker Studio Pro with multiple Google Cloud projects

If you want to use Looker Studio Pro across multiple projects, you can do so by adding a separate subscription for each project.

For example, to use one project for your Sales team and a different project for your Marketing team, you'd create one subscription that is linked to your sales project and a second subscription that is linked to your marketing project.