This QuickStart lists all the new and public beta features released, as well as bugs fixed in October 2024.

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

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.

Features carrying the are customer favorites!

Use actions to insert rows into input tables (GA)

The Insert row action to insert a row into an input table based on a user's interaction with another workbook element is now GA.

The feature can be found here:

For more information about actions in Sigma, see Intro to actions.

Use workbook actions to set a date range control

The date range control is now a valid target for workbook actions that target controls.

There are many possibilities with this new action.

For example, a segmented control can be used to allow users to easily click on common date ranges. This saves time for the user, and keeps them focused on the data:

Updated and new permissions for exports

Export permissions are now more granular. The Download or Send Now permission is now two permissions, Download and Export to email:

The functionality managed by these permissions has not changed, and existing account types have been migrated to use the new permissions.

In addition, the ability to have an export run as the recipient is managed by a new permission, Run exports as recipient.

For more information, see License and account type overview.

New API rate limit

The v2/auth/token endpoint is now rate limited to one request per second.

For more information, see Get started with the Sigma REST API.

New parameter for Tag a workbook endpoint

The Tag a workbook (POST v2/workbooks/tag) endpoint now supports the isDefault parameter.

If you want users that only have access to tagged versions of the document to open this tagged version by default, set isDefault to true.

1: When a workbook action is configured to set a control value on click in a visualization element, clicking on the white space outside the chart now clears the control value as expected.

2: Workbook actions triggered from interactions with tables which have columns that either do not have a type or an error type now run as expected.

3: When users send a request to their admins for a tag to be applied to their workbook, the resulting email notifications now use custom branding settings configured for the organization.

4: Copying a single element with a configured action or clicking Copy page on a workbook page containing actions now copies action configurations between elements on the page.

5: Theme fonts are now applied to all embed modal views.

6: The Get a team API endpoint now returns an error message when trying to retrieve an unexpected team.

7: Users can now export from embeds authenticated with client ID and secret when eval_connection_id is set.

8: When including a PNG file in an scheduled or ad hoc email export, the resulting image now uses the full width of the email body.

9: Swapping data sources when promoting a workbook from one tag to another tag now works as expected.

10: When creating a dynamic title, the type ahead suggestions in the formula bar in the overlay now include the available table columns as well as controls.

11: When responsive height is enabled in an embedded object, opening a modal in the embedded content now displays the modal at the current scroll position.

12: When using the embed sandbox UI in an organization with a high number of teams, the left navigation now loads teams progressively on scroll without throwing a RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED error.

13: When you specify a text alignment for a row header or column header, all header values are aligned instead of the lowest level header.

Improved data source selection UI in embeds

Select data sources for workbook elements using a new popover UI.

With the new experience, you can search for data sources, review a list of suggested sources, and preview data sources. Preview a data source to review the source data and choose specific columns to apply to the element.

For example:

This allows an embed user (with the appropriate permission) to access the new experience.

For more information, see Create a data element.

New inbound events in embeds

Use two new inbound events, workbook:bookmark:delete and workbook:bookmark:select to display, clear, or delete bookmarks.

For more information, see Implement inbound and outbound events in embeds.

There is also a QuickStart that covers eventing in Sigma embeds.

Create time series forecasts (Beta)

In a Sigma workbook, you can use historical time series data to predict and visualize future values and trends, leveraging Snowflake's forecasting ML function.

Forecasting employs a machine learning algorithm to predict future numeric data based on historical time series data. A common use case is to forecast sales by item for the next two weeks.

No prior SQL knowledge us required to make this work.

For more information, see Create time series forecasts (Beta).

Sigma now supports Azure Western Europe region

Sigma is now deployed in Azure West Europe in compliance with EU GDPR.

Located in the Netherlands, this deployment gives customers in the EU more control over data storage while enabling compliance with internal policies and external data residency requirements.

Discounted cash flow use case:

This QuickStart describes and demonstrations how to handle a discounted cash flow (DCF) in Sigma. DCF is a common financial analysis that values some type of asset over a period of time. More simply put, it allows someone to understand how much future money is worth in today's terms.

An example of what is built is shown below:

Bars in combo charts support color by category (Beta)

If your combo chart includes a bar chart, you can add a column to split the color of the bar series by category.

For example:

For more information, see Configure a chart color by category. (Beta)

Cartesian charts support trellis by series (Beta)

If your bar, line, area, or scatter chart has multiple series, you can create a trellis chart for each series.

This approach provides several advantages:

For example:

For more information, see Create a trellis chart with multiple series. (Beta)

Export any supported format to Google Drive

You can now export one or more workbook elements, workbook pages, or an entire workbook to a new folder in Google Drive.

Additional file format types are now supported, such as PDF and PNG.

The current list of supported types are:

For more information, see Send or schedule workbook exports for details on supported file types.

Improved pivot table performance

Pivot tables are no longer limited to 100,000 points of data.

In addition, pivot table rows support infinite scroll!

Restore a workbook to a previous change

You can now restore a workbook to a previous change in the edit history for a draft or previously published version.

This can be really useful if something you are working on stopped working and you are not sure what change caused the issue. Now you can quickly revert versions to see what changed caused the issue.

For example:

For more details, see Workbook versions and version history

Updated file names for scheduled element exports

For scheduled exports of elements that use dynamic text in the title, the file name now reflects the value of the dynamic text when the export was performed.

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