Admin

Connection-level OAuth for Snowflake and Databricks (GA)

Set up a specific OAuth configuration to authenticate to a Snowflake or Databricks connection without reusing the OAuth configuration used to authenticate to your Sigma organization.

For Snowflake or Databricks connections, you can configure connection-level OAuth to manage role-based access control and data permissions in your data platform without changing how users authenticate to Sigma.

Connection-level OAuth is also available for Google BigQuery, but is still in beta.

For more details, see About using OAuth with Sigma. For setup instructions, see Connect to Snowflake with OAuth and Connect to Databricks with OAuth.

Option to increase CSV upload limit to 1GB (GA)

By default, Sigma limits CSV uploads to 200MB to avoid timeouts and failures that can be common with large files. If your organization's users regularly work with larger files, you can increase the file size limit to 1GB. When this option is enabled, Sigma generates pre-signed URLs, and the browser uploads the CSV files in multiple parts directly to cloud storage, bypassing Sigma's servers. This flow supports larger file sizes while improving performance and reliability.

For more information, see Configure CSV upload and storage options.

Set tagged workbook version as a custom homepage

Specify a tagged version of a workbook when assigning a custom homepage to a user or team. For more details, see Set up custom home pages.

Search and discovery

Improved search functionality

If your organization configures an AI provider, Sigma provides enhanced global search performance using semantic search.

For more information, see Search for content in your organization.

Templates

Swap data model sources when accepting a shared template

Data models used as sources in a shared template are now available to be swapped when you accept a template shared with your organization. You can swap data models to tables in your connection or to other data models in your organization. If a template includes multiple data models as sources, you can accept the template and swap the sources.

Workbook elements

Automatically scale column with to the size of your table element

You can now configure columns to automatically scale to the size of your table element with the Autofit columns option. Autofit columns is not supported for pivot tables.

See Format and customize a table.

Customize data label display for bar charts

If you add a custom data label to a stacked bar chart, you can now choose to display the label as the value for the entire bar, the value for the individual segment, or both.

Repeated container (GA)

The repeated container is a layout element that connects to a data source. For each row in the data source, the repeated container generates a layout card, allowing you to quickly generate identical, dynamic layouts from your data.

For more information, see Use repeated containers to generate layouts from data.

Set chart axis range dynamically

You can now set a maximum or minimum range for a chart axis dynamically using a formula that references columns or controls in your workbook or report. See Customize chart axis range for more information.

Single row container (GA)

The single row container is a layout element that connects to a data source. By selecting a key column and value, you can choose a row from the data source to display inside the container, allowing for dynamic, focused views at individual rows.

For more information, see Use single row containers to show records in detail and Create actions that control single row containers.

Value list (GA)

Add a value list element to create an organized display of details from a data source. You can customize the value list to show custom formula results, control values, static values, and more. When paired with a single row container, you can create a dynamic list that shows individual records from a data based on user input.

For more information, see Value lists.

Bug fixes

• For organizations with greater than 15,000 user attributes, it was not possible to specify a user attribute to dynamically set a role or warehouse for a Snowflake connection.

• Users in tenant organizations were unable to duplicate or tag versions of deployed documents.

Admin

AWS signature V4 authentication for API connectors

API connectors now support the AWS signature V4 authentication method.

For more information, see Configure API credentials and connectors in Sigma.

Advanced governance settings for API connectors

You can configure advanced settings for API connectors to manage rate limits, redirect rules, and retries.

For more information, see Configure API credentials and connectors in Sigma.

Copy input table data to tenant organizations (Beta)

When deploying documents to tenant organizations, you can now choose to include the data from input tables in the deployed document.

For details, see Deploy content to tenant organizations.

Input table audit history (GA)

Input table audit history is now generally available.

Input table audit history records versioned snapshots of input table row and schema changes over time. For each input table, Sigma automatically creates a warehouse-native view in your data platform that can help you understand the following:

• Row-level history: What changed in a specific row, who made the change, and when the change occurred.
• Schema history: When a column was created or changed to a different data type, along with who made the change and when the change occurred.

For information, see View input table audit history.

Set variables on a Snowflake connection (Beta)

You can now specify session variables on a Sigma connection to Snowflake. After being set up, the session variables are set for each query that Sigma runs in Snowflake.

For more details, including an example implementation, see Specify session variables for a Snowflake connection.

Workbook elements

Change legend position in map elements

You can now choose the location of the legend on a map. Navigate to Format > Legend and, next to Position, choose an option from the dropdown.

Bug fixes

• When validating content in a data model or migrating a dataset to a data model with Update references selected, downstream documents no longer fail to update due to a permission error.

• Workbooks no longer fail to load when a column exists across multiple properties in an element.

AI

Ask Sigma is now Sigma Assistant

Ask Sigma is now Sigma Assistant, and includes the following:

• Improved accuracy and performance when answering questions and performing analysis.
• Higher quality data source selection, relying on a new semantic search service that indexes configured sources using the AI provider set up for your organization.
• Improved experience, including the ability to provide feedback on the quality of responses.
• Highlighted sources are now configured sources, and the steps to add configured data sources for Assistant are updated. Configure sources for Sigma Assistant to answer questions without selecting a data source.
• Configure data models as data sources to improve accuracy and capabilities. When Sigma Assistant uses data models to answer questions, it can choose which relationships to use.

If you embed Ask Sigma, Sigma Assistant is accessible from the same URL and existing embeds continue to work.

For more details, see Ask natural language queries with Sigma Assistant.

Add AI context to data models (Beta)

You can now add AI context to a data model to help Sigma Assistant better understand how to use your data model as a data source. Adding AI context to a data model can help improve the accuracy and consistency of Sigma Assistant responses when answering questions that use the data model as a source.

For more details, see Manage AI context for data models.

Sigma MCP Server available

Use natural language to interact programmatically with your Sigma organization using the Sigma MCP server. You can now search, describe, and query data within your AI assistant's interface. You can connect to the Sigma MCP server from any AI assistant that supports connection to custom remote MCP servers via HTTP and OAuth.

For more details on supported tools, see Use the Sigma MCP Server.

AI apps

Custom sort action (GA)

The Custom sort action is now generally available.

This action enables you to create an action that sorts one or more columns in a target element.

For more information, see Create actions that modify or refresh elements

API

Create and manage data models as code (GA)

You can create and manage data models programmatically using the Sigma API. The endpoints use a code representation of the data model to retrieve contents, make updates, and create new data models. For more information, see Manage data models as code.

The following endpoints are generally available to read, create, and update data models programmatically:

• Get the code representation of a data model (GET /v2/dataModels/{dataModelId}/spec)
• Create a data model from a code representation (POST /v2/dataModels/spec)
• Update a data model from a code representation (PUT /v2/dataModels/{dataModelId}/spec)

For example representations of sources and elements, see the Data model representation example library.

To provide context to AI agents building data models from code, see Access Sigma documentation from AI tools.

New API endpoint to list scheduled exports for a user

The following endpoint to list all scheduled workbook and report exports owned by a specific user is now available:

• List scheduled exports for a user (GET /v2/members/{memberId}/schedules)

New query parameter for List data models endpoint

The List data models (GET v2/dataModels) endpoint now includes the skipPermissionCheck query parameter. When set to true, this parameter allows the API client to return all data models in a Sigma organization, including those not shared with or owned by the requesting user. The API client must have admin privileges to use this parameter.

Workbook elements

Control pan and zoom for maps

You can now choose whether to allow pan and zoom for maps. Select the Allow pan and zoom checkbox under Format > Map style to allow users to freely pan and zoom, or clear the checkbox to lock a map chart to a fixed position and zoom level.

Bug fixes

• Dataset migration now updates workbook references to point to the new data model in cases where the dataset was used as part of a join or union.

• If you edit a document using the API, such as by swapping a data source or editing a data model using the Update a data model from a code representation endpoint, there is now a prompt to discard stale changes and include the updates in the document the next time it is opened in the UI.

• Editing SQL for datasets now completes as expected and no longer runs infinitely.

AI apps

Input table audit history (Beta)

Input table audit history records versioned snapshots of input table row and schema changes over time. For each input table, Sigma automatically creates a warehouse-native view in your data platform that can help you understand the following:

• Row-level history: What changed in a specific row, who made the change, and when the change occurred.
• Schema history: When a column was created, renamed, or changed to a different data type, along with who made the change and when the change occurred.

For information, see View input table audit history.

API

New API endpoint to list columns for a warehouse table

The following endpoint to list column names, types, and other details for a table in a data warehouse connection is now available:

• List columns for a warehouse table (GET v2/connections/tables/{tableId}/columns)

Admin

Support for Azure customer-owned cloud storage integration (GA)

Admins can add an Azure Blob storage integration to use a customer-owned blob container with the following features:

• CSV upload
• File upload column in input tables
• Export to cloud storage

This adds Azure to the existing AWS and GCP storage options that give your organization control over where your files live, who can access them, how long they’re retained, and how they’re encrypted.

For more information, see Configure an external storage integration with Azure Blob Storage.

Option to increase CSV upload limit to 1GB (Beta)

By default, Sigma limits CSV uploads to 200MB to avoid timeouts and failures that can be common with large files. If your organization's users regularly work with larger files, you can increase the file size limit to 1GB. When this option is enabled, Sigma uses an upload architecture that supports larger files with improved performance and reliability.

For more information, see Configure CSV upload and storage options.

Embeds

New embed URL parameter

The :hide_save_as embed URL parameter is now available to hide the Save as option in an embed.

For more details, see Embed URL parameters.

Functions and calculations

Databricks variant data type (GA)

Databricks connections support the variant data type, allowing you to handle arrays and JSON data using functions like Variant, JSON, and Array, as well as functions that use the variant data type like ArrayCompact.

For more information on functions and features that are supported on the Databricks connection type, see Supported regions, data platforms, and features.

Workbook elements

Add a control from a column

You can now add a control by right-clicking on a column name and selecting Add control.

See Create and manage a control element for more information.

Bug fixes

• Requests made to the Create a connection endpoint failed when creating a Databricks connection using OAuth because it expected a service account to exist.

• Requests made to the List documents for a deployment policy API endpoint ignored the value specified for the pageSize parameter.

• Tagging and swapping the source of a data model version that contained a #raw directive in a custom SQL statement failed with a placeholder error.

• When swapping sources as part of a deployment policy, swapping sources to or from connection types that required only two levels (SCHEMA.TABLE) failed with a path length error.

AI

New model used for Snowflake AI provider

If you use a warehouse-hosted AI provider with a Snowflake connection, and your Snowflake account is hosted on AWS, Sigma now uses claude-sonnet-4-5 as the LLM.

For more details, see Configure a warehouse-hosted model as AI provider.

AI apps

Forms (GA)

Use the form element to create a clear interface for user data entry. Create a form manually, or based on an existing input table or stored procedure.

Forms can submit data to multiple data sources at the same time, and trigger action workflows at the time of submission, allowing you to centrally manage user input in AI apps.

For more information, see Use forms to streamline user data entry.

Functions and calculations

System functions in custom SQL queries

You can use system functions with the #formula directive in custom SQL queries to return information about the current workbook context, such as user name, email, and time.

For more information, see Write custom SQL.

Workbook elements

Configure background images for charts (Beta)

You can now add background images to cartesian (bar, line, scatter, area, waterfall, box and whisker, and combo) charts in order to build more complex visualizations, such as heat maps, or to further customize your chart's appearance.

To set a background image, upload a file or specify an image URL. If you use a URL, you can configure a dynamic URL by pressing = to open the formula bar and entering a formula that references a control value or column.

See Configure a custom background image for a chart for more information.

Dynamic column aliases in custom SQL queries

You can use a control value to create a dynamic column alias in a custom SQL query using the #identifier directive. This allows you to set column names in response to workbook contents.

For more information, see Reference workbook control values in SQL statements.

Bug fixes

• Previously, image elements with the Shape set to Circle did not align properly with the element frame when choosing a Horizontal or Vertical alignment setting. Now, they follow the same behavior as other image elements.

• Previously, when downloading a workbook page with a tabbed container as a PNG or PDF, only the first tab in the container was exported. Now, the export renders the current selected tab. This change does not apply to scheduled exports.

Admin

Support for Azure customer-owned cloud storage integration

Admins can now add an Azure Blob Storage integration to use customer-owned cloud storage with the following features:

• CSV upload
• File upload column in input tables
• Export to cloud storage

This adds Azure to the existing AWS and GCP storage options that give your organization control over where your files live, who can access them, how long they’re retained, and how they’re encrypted.

For more information, see Configure storage integration using customer-owned bucket.

Data modeling

Null-safe join comparison operators

Joins support null-safe comparison operators, including null-safe equal to (<=>) and null-safe not equal to (<!=>).

Null-safe comparison operators return True or False instead of Null when comparing against Null. For example, Null = 1 returns Null, while Null <=> 1 returns False. For more information, see Create and edit joins in data models and workbooks.

Bug fixes

• After changing the Snowflake role in Sigma, write-back destinations available to a user did not update automatically.

• You can now change the data source of an element that uses a Snowflake semantic view as a source.

• Keyboard handling in the Edit column descriptions modal has been fixed to restore space key entry.

API

New email option for the List members endpoint

The List members (GET /v2/members) endpoint includes a new option to filter the list of users by email address. Use this option instead of the search option.

Admin

Advanced token and authorization request parameters for API credentials

When configuring an API credential with an OAuth authentication method, you can optionally add parameters to the token or authorization requests.

These additional parameters can be used to satisfy authentication requirements for particular API endpoints. For more information on configuring token and authorization credentials, see Add API credentials and connectors to Sigma.

Native support for Databricks variant type (Beta)

Sigma now natively supports the Variant data type on Databricks connections.

Previously, columns with the Variant data type in Databricks were treated as text data in Sigma. Now, they are treated as variant data.

Data modeling

Configure default timelines for metrics in data models

You can now add a default timeline configuration to a data element in a data model for all metrics created on that data element to use. Workbooks and reports that use metrics with default timelines configured as a source are not affected.

See Configure a default timeline for metrics.

Embeds

New document:element:nodata outbound JavaScript event

A new document:element:nodata outbound JavaScript event is now available. For example, use the event to change the embedded content if no data is returned for an element.

For more details, see Outbound event reference.

New option for document:navigateto inbound JavaScript event

The document:navigateto inbound JavaScript now takes the inodeId of a workbook, report, or data model page as a property. See Inbound event reference for more details.

Workbook elements

Conditional formatting for repeated container cards

Repeated container cards support conditional formatting, allowing you to configure conditional background colors based on the row in the data source connected to each card.

For more information, see Use repeated containers to generate layouts from data (Beta).

Hierarchy column support for Databricks connections (Beta)

Creating and editing hierarchy columns is now supported for Databricks connections.

See Work with hierarchies (Beta) and the RaggedHierarchy (Beta) function reference for more information.

Workbook features

Custom page header formatting options

Custom page headers now support advanced formatting options, including border style and background images.

For more information, see Add custom page headers to a workbook.

Bug fixes

• For a workbook with a stored procedure action, tagging a version and swapping the source no longer fails with an error. You might need to sync the stored procedure after tagging the version.

Deprecated features

Creating hierarchies from the Manage hierarchies popover (Deprecated)

Creating hierarchies in the Manage hierarchies popover is deprecated. Starting September 15, 2026, you will no longer be able to create new hierarchies in the Manage hierarchies popover, or edit existing hierarchies created from the popover. Instead, migrate to hierarchy columns.

Datasets (Deprecated)

Datasets are now deprecated:

• Starting June 2, 2026, creating new datasets and editing existing datasets will no longer be available.
• Starting September 15, 2026, you will no longer be able to use datasets as a data source or view datasets in Sigma.

Migrate existing datasets to data models, and update any documents that use datasets as a source to use data models instead. See Migrate a dataset to a data model.

Deprecated option for List members endpoint (Deprecated)

The search option for the List members (GET /v2/members) endpoint is now deprecated and will be removed on September 15, 2026. Instead, use the new email parameter to filter API requests.

AI apps

CSV upload using customer-owned cloud storage (GA)

CSV upload using a customer-owned cloud storage data flow is now generally available. This option offers an alternative to the default data flow through Sigma's infrastructure.

When customer-owned cloud storage is enabled, raw and processed CSV files are staged in a customer-owned bucket (instead of a Sigma-owned bucket) before loading to the data platform. Your company controls the bucket region, access, TTL, etc., helping your organization meet security and compliance requirements.

For more information, see Configure CSV upload and storage options and Configure storage integration using customer-owned bucket.

Data modeling

Validate content in a data model (GA)

When you make changes to a data model, those changes affect users of workbooks that use the data model as a source. You can now validate content to prevent breaking changes to those workbooks. Instead of manually replacing and updating deleted or changed columns, elements, metrics, and relationships in affected documents, you can validate content in the data model and prevent these errors.

For details, see Validate content in a data model and Sync a draft with the latest published version.

Embeds

New option for workbook:mode:update inbound JavaScript event

The workbook:mode:update inbound JavaScript event now supports edit as a mode.

For more details, see Inbound event reference.

Reports

Create pixel-perfect reports (GA)

Creating reports in Sigma to generate predictable and pixel-perfect exports is now generally available. In addition to existing formatting, pagination, export, and embedding abilities, the following functionality is now available:

• Creating report templates and sharing them with users both within and outside your organization.
• Adding version tags to reports, including input table version tagging support.

For more information about reports, see Reports overview and Tutorial: Build and export a sales report.

New report API endpoints

The following endpoints are now available:

• Create a report (POST /v2/reports)
• List reports (GET /v2/reports)
• Get a report (GET /v2/reports/{reportId})
• List report sources (GET /v2/reports/{reportId}/sources)
• Duplicate a report (POST /v2/reports/{reportId}/copy)

Export endpoints

• Export data from a report (POST /v2/reports/{reportId}/export)
• Export a report (POST /v2/reports/{reportId}/send)

Export schedules endpoints

• List scheduled report exports (GET /v2/reports/{reportId}/schedules)
• Add report schedule (POST /v2/reports/{reportId}/schedules)
• Update a report schedule (PATCH /v2/reports/{reportId}/schedules/{scheduleId})
• Delete a scheduled export for a report (DELETE /v2/reports/{reportId}/schedules/{scheduleId})

Bug fixes

• When you create a metric that uses a column with column-level security configured, the metric no longer displays as an error to unauthorized users and is instead only visible to users with access to the column.

AI apps

Scheduled action sequences (Beta)

Scheduled action sequences are workflows that run automatically on a schedule, without requiring a user to open or interact with the workbook. You can use scheduled action sequences to periodically send notifications, refresh data, write to input tables, and more.

The following actions can be scheduled:

• Notifications and exports
• Input table row changes
• Stored procedure calls
• Python element execution

Scheduled action sequences also support conditional if/else statements, and you can schedule multiple action sequences to run at different frequencies.

For more information, see Configure an action sequence to run on a schedule.

Workbook elements

Choose from theme categorical colors in workbook color picker

When you configure colors for workbook elements using the color picker, you can now choose from the workbook theme's configured categorical colors.

See Create and manage workbook themes for more about workbook themes.

Updated conditional formatting UI

The Conditional formatting section has been redesigned to match other formatting options in the editor panel. The change is aesthetic and does not impact any functionality.

For more information on conditional formatting, see Apply conditional formatting to table columns and cells.

Bug fixes

• Charts in PNG exports now display as intended.

• When deploying documents to tenant organizations, a document removed from a deployment policy was not redeployed after it was re-added to the deployment policy.

AI apps

Call API action (Beta)

You can create actions that call API endpoints in Sigma workbooks. This allows you to trigger workflows, enrich data, and interact with external systems without leaving Sigma. See Create actions that call API endpoints.

To support the Call API action, you can define API credentials and API connectors directly in Sigma, using diverse authentication methods, dynamic query and path parameters, request bodies with typed variables, and more. You can optionally create a connector from an existing OpenAPI specification. See Configure API credentials and connectors in Sigma.

For step-by-step examples configuring credentials, connectors, and actions to call APIs, see the following tutorials:

• Tutorial: Configure API credentials, connectors, and actions for the Sigma REST API
• Tutorial: Configure API credentials, connectors, and actions for the NYC Open Data API

API

New API rate limit

The Export data from a workbook (POST /v2/workbooks/{workbookId}/export /) endpoint is now rate limited to 400 requests per minute, instead of 100 requests per minute.

Embeds

New option for workbook:modal:toggle inbound JavaScript event

The workbook:modal:toggle inbound JavaScript event now supports opening a "Save As" modal with a modalType of save-as.

For more details, see Inbound event reference.

New report:download inbound JavaScript event

A new report:download inbound JavaScript event is now available to download a report.

For more details, see Inbound event reference.

Functions and calculations

DateFromUnixMs and DateFromUnixUs functions

You can use the DateFromUnixMs and DateFromUnixUs functions to calculate a date based on milliseconds and microsends since the Unix epoch.

For more information, see DateFromUnixMs and DateFromUnixUs.

Workbook elements

Choose custom category colors from default theme palette

When you customize the colors used for chart color categories, you can now choose colors from the default color palette that is configured for the workbook's current theme.

See Create and manage workbook themes.

Create ad hoc calculations (GA)

The ability to add ad hoc calculated rows in pivot tables is now generally available. This allow you to perform one-off calculations in a pivot table row, without modifying the underlying dataset or restructuring your pivot table.

For more information, see Create ad hoc calculations

Customize color categories for maps

For maps with custom color categories configured, you can now customize which color is assigned to a category.

Sort filters and controls by a custom order (GA)

The ability to sort list and hierarchy filters and controls by a custom order is now generally available.

See Sort by a custom order.

Workbook features

Use hierarchy controls when customizing export control values (Beta)

When configuring scheduled export options, you can now use hierarchy controls to filter exported data.

See Filter by control values and Hierarchy (Beta) controls.