Introduction Awhile ago, we were given the lovely fixed header option, which looks great and has helped to make more maintainable custom navigation in Sigma possible, but this week, we’re playing around with a beta feature – the fixed Sidebar. This functionality, combined with repeated containers and embedded UI elements, makes for some interesting design […]
2026 Week 20 | Can we have a quick sidebar? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sigma has been adding functionality that has taken the app from a fantastic BI solution to an outstanding Application building tool. One of the features that helps with that is the introduction of API Actions. With API Actions, you can retrieve data from outside sources and send data out to other sources. The challenge today is
2026 Week 16 | Can you check the weather? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction After years of being on the grid, we can finally break from it (and do some other cool stuff). Using Reports, a newly released pixel-perfect document editor for Sigma, we can add elements, layer elements, and dynamically expand tables. Combining reports with Email Bursting leads to some significant time savings, if your business has
2026 Week 12 | Got Reports? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I’m so excited to introduce Forms to everyone – this feature is a key part of most data apps I build. They can help speed up development and maintain apps over time. So let’s dig in and see how forms can help us simplify actions and data apps. Need access to Sigma? Click Here to
2026 Week 08 | Sigma: Forms Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge features the new Repeating Container element, which is a powerful new visual that can display feed-like information quickly and easily. Today, I want to show you how you can use this feature to make more detailed KPI-like cards in your workbooks. This feature is still in beta – are there any things
2026 Week 04 | Sigma: Can you Make a Repeating Container? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week challenge features actions that allow users to update multiple rows in an input table at once using formulas / filters. Let’s get to it! Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance Youtube Click here to Watch: How to Register & Get Started with Sigma WoW
2025 Week 43 | Sigma: Can you Update Multiple Rows? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sigma’s new features keep coming and they don’t stop coming and this past week was no different. We got two powerhouse features that eliminate SO MUCH EFFORT from maintaining beautiful workbooks: Navigation Elements and Custom headers. Today, I wanted to focus on those, since I have a feeling we’re all going to be adding
2025 Week 39 | Sigma: Can you Navigate? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We’ve had a few weeks of beautiful data apps on Workout Wednesday, but today I want to focus on something that will make your data apps even cleaner, and that’s the quality of your data! I love the ‘Transpose’ feature that Sigma added a few releases ago, and it enables quality control (QC) checks, alerting,
2025 Week 35 | Sigma: Can You Improve Your Data Quality? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Living in Chicago, one of my favorite things to do is visit parks. Some are small, some are gigantic, and it’s often that I don’t really know all the options my local parks have to offer. I wanted to build this quick app off of Chicago Parks District data to help find parks near
2025 Week 31 | Sigma: Can You Pick a Park? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction As we all prepare ourselves (and our dogs) for this weekend in the US, let’s be careful out there. I’ve been on a bit of a kick of perusing government websites for data lately, and I’ve been surprised at how easy it is to pull data on a number of topics. This week, I’m
2025 Week 27 | Sigma: Can You Stay Safe This 4th of July? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday