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How to fix the error: "Exception <fieldname> was not found in the schema"

Whenever you see this, just "Refresh Fields" of your data source

Written by Romulo Gomes

One day, you might see the following error on your dashboards:

This usually happens when a field is either removed or updated, which causes Looker Studio to not find it on the schema anymore.

This is an easy fix. All you have to do is:

  • Open your data source

  • Click on "Refresh Fields"

  • In case the field was removed, just delete it from your chart

And that's it. Here's an example of when we removed a few empty columns from the Google Play Installs report:

I hope that was useful!

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