Introduction Welcome to Week 36 of 2026! This week, we’re going to create a basic ordering workflow. When you build your workflow, I encourage you to use two new functions that Sigma released last week: TextJoin and LookupMatchNulls. We have moved our Workout Wednesdays to Sigma Public. Be sure to build your version there! Good […]
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 34 of 2026! Do you leverage Sigma Input Tables to produce critical data that supports downstream data marts, joins, or reporting that could be impacted by a breaking change? This example shows you how you may leverage multiple layers of Sigma Input Tables to create a staging area that checks values
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 33 of 2026! This week, we’re going to use Sigma’s AI Assistant to build a dashboard for us! This challenge is very open ended, so we may end up with something that looks different than mine, depending on your prompt and chat with the AI. Have fun building and share your
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We’ve had modals for awhile, but Sigma has introduced a similar concept with its new Drawers feature. I think they look great, and work really well for storing form data. This is a beta feature, so if you have feedback, please share and help shape the feature! Need access to Sigma? Click Here to
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 26 of 2026! Sigma Agent allows you to read, write, and execute actions natively within the workbook, data sources, and input tables. This challenge showcases how you may build last-mile data prep into a workbook with Sigma Agent. The example setup requires a Linked Input Table to store output from Sigma
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 29 of 2026! This week, we’re going to create an approval process. In the past, we’ve created one using Insert Row and Update Row(s) actions. In this version, we will utilize Sigma’s new Insert Row(s) action to create an activity stream. With this new action, we can allow for tabular inputs,
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I’ve been on a mapping kick lately – as input tables make data entry and writeback easier, they come with some pitfalls: misspellings, circular references, and cowboy mapping. Today I want to show you a new strategy for handling mapping effectively in Sigma (sometimes called crosswalk tables by AI) using the new Unnesting feature.
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 26 of 2026! We are bringing “Level of Detail” expressions that you might be famililar from other BI tools into Sigma this week! In short, Level of Detail expressions allow you to perform aggregation by specifically defined dimensions that is less granular than the row level, while preserving the overall table
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Some of the most important tasks in a BI implementation are not pretty or fun. One of the tasks that comes up any time I’m pulling in data from sources is how to standardize fields across multiple systems. This is especially tricky when the fields may have been manually input at some point in
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 24 of 2026! This week, we’re going to play with new UI elements in Sigma: Progress Bars and Rings. To do this, we’re going to create a To Do List where users can enter new items and easily mark as finished. We’ll then visualize progress over the entire list and for
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday