What's new in Sigma
Admin
Improved usage dashboards
Usage dashboards have been improved to provide better performance and easier navigation. To view insights into how your organization uses Sigma and data on your queries, embeds, materializations, and more, go to Administration > Usage. You can also now create and save custom views of your usage dashboards, which allows you to customize the appearance, layout, sorting, and filters of your existing dashboards, or even create new ones of your own.
For more information, see Usage dashboard overview. Outdated documentation about specific usage dashboards has been removed.
Manage upgrade requests in the Administration portal (GA)
The ability to view and respond to account upgrade requests in the Administration portal is now generally available. When a user requests an upgrade to their account type to explore or create workbooks, an admin can review the request in Administration.
See Respond to account upgrade requests.
No email notifications for embed user account type changes
Email notifications are no longer sent to embed users when an admin makes changes to those users’ account type.
Data modeling
Materialization for data models (GA)
Scheduling materialization for elements in data models is now generally available. For more details, see About materialization and Schedule materialization for a data model or workbook.
Materialization support for version-tagged data models (GA)
Schedule materialization for each tagged version of a data model. If the published version already has a materialization schedule for one or more elements, you can choose to reuse the same schedule for the tagged version.
When you promote a tag to a new version of the data model, such as moving a tag from an older version of the data model to the latest published version, a new materialization run is started. While the materialization runs for the newly tagged version, the materialized data for the previously tagged version of the data model is used.
For more details, see Schedule materialization for a version-tagged data model.
Improved data model overview
See the status of elements in your data model in the model overview panel visible when you open a data model for editing but have not yet selected any elements. Elements enabled as a source show with a 
and elements disabled as a source show with a 
.
Embeds
New outbound event emitted for saved workbooks
When a workbook is successfully saved using the Save as option from the embed menu, an outbound workbook:saveas event is emitted.
For more details, see workbook:saveas.
Removed links to Sigma pages in embedded application workbooks
In embedded applications, Sigma no longer includes links that reference Sigma processes or link to Sigma documentation. Sigma links in these sections of a workbook do not appear in embeds:
- Column details
- Functions bar, specifically the Function icon
- Lineage / query history
- Metric tab
Performance
Input table error handling
The following changes to input tables have been implemented to improve data integrity and prevent unexpected data loss:
- Input table edits that are unsuccessful due to configuration or availability issues in the connection or data platform (which must be resolved by the customer) are now treated as fatal errors and will no longer be retried.
- When Sigma detects a configuration or availability issue in the connection or data platform, it blocks edits to relevant input tables and displays an “Unable to edit” message directly on the input table elements until the configuration issue is resolved.
- Sigma sends admins an email alert that identifies the misconfigured or unavailable connection, displays the error message, and provides troubleshooting guidance.
Workbook features
Export to Microsoft Teams and SharePoint (Beta)
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 with the Admin account type must set up a Microsoft integration and the relevant account type permission must be enabled for users.
See Export to Microsoft Teams and Export to Microsoft SharePoint.
Export PDFs to larger page sizes (Beta)
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.
Bug fix
- Formulas in action configurations were previously limited to functions supported by all compatible data platforms. You can now use any function supported by your connection's data platform.