This QuickStart lists all the new and public beta features released, as well as bugs fixed in July 2025.

It is summary in nature, and you should refer to the specific Sigma documentation links provided for more information.

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Public beta features will carry the section text "Beta".

All other features are considered released (GA or generally available).

Sigma actually has feature and bug fix releases weekly, and high-priority bug fixes on demand. We felt it was best to keep these QuickStarts to a summary of the previous month for your convenience.

New first Friday features QuickStarts will be published on the first Friday of each month, and will include information for the previous month.

For more information on Sigma's product release strategy, see Sigma product releases

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Azure SQL Database, SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance connections (GA)

Sigma now supports secure connections to Azure SQL Database, SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instances.

For more information, see Connect to Azure SQL Database and Connect to SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Azure UK region

Sigma is now deployed in Azure UK (Located in London), this deployment gives customers in the United Kingdom more control over data storage while enabling compliance with internal policies and external data residency requirements.

For more information, see Supported regions, data platforms and features

Email template changes (roll-out underway)

The default email templates used for scheduled exports, invitations to join an organization, are receiving and updated design.

The changes are already available to some customers and will gradually become available over the next two weeks, with full availability planned for August 8, 2025.

Example email:

New events captured in audit logs

You can now view audit log enabling and storage integration events in your audit logs.

New help page on troubleshooting input table connection issues

This page covers troubleshooting steps, error messages and resolutions and can be very useful to review prior to contacting support.

For more information, see Input table error handling

New supported organization locales

English (Canada) and English (Ireland) are now supported organization locales. Setting en-ca or en-ie as your organization's locale will allow for en-ca or en-ie number formatting, currency, and date formatting to be used as a default across the organization.

For more information, see Manage organization locale.

Restrict export frequency (GA)

Sigma admins can now restrict the frequency of scheduled exports for their organization. If this setting is enabled, users also cannot set custom cron schedules.

For more information, see Restrict export recipients and frequency

Restrict export recipients to the same team (GA)

Sigma admins can now restrict email recipients so that users can only email exports to other members of their Sigma teams.

For more information, see Restrict export recipients and frequency

Set up Key Pair authentication for OAuth service accounts

You can now set up Key Pair authentication for Snowflake OAuth service accounts.

For more information, see Connect to Snowflake with OAuth

Version tag metadata available in Document activity and Queries Usage dashboards.

You can now filter by version tags in the Document activity and Queries Usage dashboards. This allows you to see activity or query data only for documents with a specified version tag, such as Production or Development.

Document creation metadata is also now available in the Queries Usage dashboard.

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Configure a Usage Dashboard for Ask Sigma (GA)

Admins can now configure a usage dashboard to view data about how Ask Sigma is used in their Sigma organization.

For more information, see Configure a usage dashboard for Ask Sigma

Ask Sigma question sharing

You can now share queries you enter into Ask Sigma as a custom URL with users in your organization. When other users access the URL, Ask Sigma automatically populates the query and produces a response. For example, we can ask a question and copy the link to share:

Example link:

https://app.sigmacomputing.com/XXXXX/ask?search=Which+region+had+the+highest+sales+last+year%3F

You can use this feature to:

Also, if users modify the original query, Ask Sigma automatically updates the custom URL to share.

For more information, see Share questions in a custom URL

Automatic URL updates for Ask Sigma question sharing

There is no longer an option to manually copy a question into a custom URL. Now, when you enter a question into Ask Sigma, the URL is automatically updated with that question.

For more information, see Ask natural language queries with Ask Sigma

Explore with related charts in Ask Sigma (GA)

After you receive an initial answer from Ask Sigma, you can continue your exploration!

Ask Sigma provides related charts underneath its primary answer to offer avenues to analyze related data:

For more information, see Continue exploring with related charts

Highlighted data sources for Ask Sigma

Available AI data sources are now displayed as Highlighted data sources in Ask Sigma.

Observations from Ask Sigma

Ask Sigma now provides an Observations section as part of the output for your queries, that helps highlight relevant data and information from your query results. For example, an observation will appear like this, and give us insight into what the AI considered (Don't just trust the response from any AI!):

Warehouse AI model integration (GA)

If your organization is connected to Snowflake or Databricks, you can use warehouse-hosted AI models to power Sigma AI features.

For information, see Configure warehouse AI model integration

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New API endpoints to list account types and account type permissions

The following endpoints to list account types and account type permissions are now available:

List account types GET /v2/accountTypesList account type permissions GET /v2/accountTypes/{accountTypeId}/permissions

New API endpoints to list and get details for data models

The following endpoints to list data models and get details for a data model are now available:

List data models GET /v2/dataModelsGet a data model GET /v2/dataModels/{dataModelId}

New API endpoint to update tag details

The following endpoint to update tag descriptions is now available:

Update a tag PATCH /v2/tags/{tagId}

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1: The Azure SCIM PatchGroup operation now allows for team updates for deactivated users.

2: The , character within columns is now correctly escaped for Snowflake CSV exports to cloud storage.

3: Coachmarks are no longer visible in exports, embed, or when using Present.

4: When editing tab names in a workbook, the & character now behaves as intended.

5: When multiple user avatars are visible in the header, they now overlap correctly.

6: You can now nest a popover element inside of a modal. Previously, this would cause an error. Popovers cannot be nested inside of popovers.

7: The workbook:saveas outbound event now returns the ID of the original workbook and the ID of the newly saved workbook. Previously, the event only returned the ID of the newly saved workbook.

For more information, see Outbound event reference

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Show longer chart axis labels

In Cartesian (bar, line, combo, area, scatter, box and waterfall) charts with an ordinal axis, you can now show longer axis labels. To allocate more space for longer labels, select the Allow longer labels checkbox under Data labels.

Show strokes for all marks within a combo chart

You can now select the Show strokes options On, Off or Auto for data labels of line, area and scatter marks in a combo chart.

Previously, only bar marks had these options. You can also now show or hide label strokes for all series in a combo chart using Data labels > Apply to all series > Show stroke.

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Option to remove control selections with actions

In addition to replacing and adding control value selections, the Set a control value action now supports the ability to remove selections.

When you configure separate Set control value actions using Add to existing selection and the new Remove from existing selection option, you can enable users to easily add and remove values from filter controls. For example:

Pause or resume action sequences

Pause or resume action sequences to debug and test actions. You can control the pause/resume state of individual sequences or globally change the state of all sequences in the workbook.

To prevent stale paused states and avoid workflow disruptions, paused sequences automatically resume when the workbook is refreshed.

For more information, see Create and manage action sequences

Set range values with actions

The Set control value action now supports Number range and Range slider controls as target elements. You can configure the action to execute the following effects:

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Additional metadata for dbt jobs

If you run dbt jobs, you can see additional metadata about the dbt models and dbt jobs in the data catalog for a connection in Sigma. View the SQL used to create the model, the last run time, the job ID and run ID, and more.

For more information, see Manage dbt Integration

Reference Sigma workbook elements when writing Custom SQL in data models (Beta)

When writing custom SQL in data models, you can now use the sigma_element() syntax to reference Sigma workbook elements.

For more information, see Reference existing Sigma workbook elements

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Ask Sigma now supported in secure embeds signed with JWT (GA)

Secure embedding with JWTs now extends to the Ask Sigma page.

Embed Ask Sigma in your own application to offer your end users the ability to ask natural language queries of the data they have permission to access. Apply custom theming and remove Sigma branding for seamless integration.

For more information, see Embed Ask Sigma and Ask natural language queries with Ask Sigma

There is also a QuickStart: Embedding 08: Embedding Ask Sigma

Dynamic text for embed element URLs

Embed elements now accept dynamic text in the URL field. You can now press = while editing the URL field to open the formula bar and configure a dynamic entry. This can be used to make embed contents responsive to control values, as well as changes to other workbook elements.

Hide bookmarks URL parameters

Sigma now provides a new hide_bookmarks URL parameter that enable you to hide saved views from the embed menu. This is also available in the embed sandbox.

For more information, see Embed URL parameters

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REST API use case QuickStarts Series:

This new series demonstrate common API methods in the host application, using sample code provided in the QuickStarts public git repo. Perfect for developers embedding Sigma into SaaS apps or internal tools who want to deliver a more dynamic, personalized experience between their app and the Sigma embed.

The first one, "Getting Started" is mandatory for the others in this series, so start there to set up your local environment.

REST API Usage 01: Getting Started

Example of what you will build:

Rest API Usage 02: Bookmarks

Example of what you will build:

REST API Usage 03 – Bookmark Sharing with a Local DB

Example of what you will build:

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Deprecation: {{ }} format

Previously, control values could be referenced in image and embed elements using the format {{control-id}}. This format has been deprecated, and existing elements using this format have been migrated to use dynamic text.

Press = on your keyboard to open the formula bar and reference control values via dynamic text.

Copy/Paste improvement

Pasted elements previously appeared at the default size for that element. Now, pasted elements match the size of the copied element.

Custom banding colors for table and pivot table rows

When formatting a table or pivot table, you can now use custom colors for row banding.

For more information, see Banding

Double-click to rename tabs in tabbed containers

You can now double-click the name of a tab in a tabbed container to rename it. This is in addition to the previously available rename options in the editor panel.

Excel-formatted exports include empty cell display value

If your pivot table has an empty cell display value set, scheduled and on demand exports to Excel (XLSX) of that pivot table now include the display value.

Export to cloud storage (GA)

If your workbook has elements from a Snowflake or Redshift connection, exporting the data for those elements to cloud storage associated with those connections is now generally available.

Export to Microsoft Teams and SharePoint (GA)

You can now export a workbook, workbook page, or element from Sigma to a Microsoft Teams channel or a Microsoft SharePoint folder.

To start exporting to Teams or SharePoint, a user assigned the Admin account type must set up a Microsoft integrationand the relevant account type permission must be enabled for users.

For more information, see Export to Microsoft Teams or Export to Microsoft SharePoint

Export PDFs to larger page sizes (GA)

When you export a workbook, page, or element to a PDF, you can now choose the page size. In addition to the previously supported Letter size, you can now export to Legal, Tabloid, A0, A1, A2, A3, and A4 page sizes.

Improved details in data source selection

When browsing for a data source in Sigma, such as when choosing or changing the source for a data element, you can see the connection name, full path to the table, and any usage statistics for the table. For example:

Number input control operators

You can now configure a number input control to filter the targeted data differently. Other filter operators besides the default of = (equal to) to show data that is greater than or equal to (>=) or less than or equal to (<=) the inputted number value. The new functionality is shown below:

For more information, see Intro to control elements

Optional version tag descriptions

When you create a version tag you are no longer required to enter a description for it.

Pivot table totals changes

The placement of pivot table totals has changed to be up one level in the table. For row totals, the change is only visible when displaying rows as separate columns. This change will be available gradually over the next week.

Reference data elements in custom SQL statements (GA)

You can reference data elements and other custom SQL elements in SQL statements in Sigma using the sigma_element syntax. Creating a warehouse view from a table created using custom SQL that uses this syntax is also now supported.

For more information, see Write custom SQL

Tabbed containers (GA)

Sigma now supports tabbed container elements.

Add a tabbed container to your workbook pages when you want to offer multiple sets of content in the same section of your workbook canvas. A tabbed container has multiple tabs at the top of the container, which can either be visible or hidden for end users.

By placing content on different tabs and configuring logic about which tab should display, you can allow users to experience different views in the same space without scrolling or navigating elsewhere.

For more information, see Use tabbed containers to organize workbook content

View column descriptions in pivot tables

If your pivot table contains columns with descriptions set, you can now hover over the column header to view the column description.

Warehouse view support for transposed tables

You can now create a warehouse view for a transposed table.

To transpose a table, see Transpose a table

To create a warehouse view, see Create and manage warehouse views

Workbook descriptions

You can now add descriptions to a workbook. Describe what the workbook is for, how it can be used, and other useful information. Workbook descriptions can be viewed by anyone with access to view the workbook.

To add a description:

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