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, […]
2026 Week 29 | Sigma: Do you approve…. again? Read More »
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
2026 Week 26 | Sigma: Level of Detail Calculations Read More »
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
2026 Week 25 | Can you standardize your inputs? Read More »
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
2026 Week 24 | Sigma: Can you track it? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 22 of 2026! Most users learned form/input table handling by clearing forms or resetting the input table upon submission or an action trigger downstream. This is viable for a low usage app. If you are building an app that might be used by hundreds of users simultaneously, and the workflow requires
2026 Week 22 | Sigma: Input Table Reset & Forced Custom View Read More »
Sigma, Workout WednesdayIntroduction Welcome to Week 21 of 2026! This week, we’re going to play with a newer feature in Sigma: Chat Elements. These elements can be very powerful, but we’re keeping it simple today. To complete this challenge, you must work in Sigma Public. Our Workout Wednesday instance does not have AI enabled. We are going
2026 Week 21 | Sigma: Can you chat with it? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
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 This week’s challenge explores something entirely new for Sigma – calling an external AI API directly from a workbook action. Using Sigma’s API Connector and Action Sequences, you’ll build a Credit Risk Intelligence app that sends live loan data to Claude’s AI and displays a real-time risk explanation – all without leaving Sigma. Need Access
2026 Week 19 | Sigma: AI Credit Risk Analysis Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Imagine you are the Senior Customer Success Manager at a SaaS company that runs on a subscription model, and you are responsible for reviewing complaint resolutions proposed by junior-level agents. This week, we are bringing Snowflake AI_Sentiment(), AI_Classify(), and AI_Complete() functions into Sigma AI App. Snowflake Cortex AI will help you identify the customer’s
2026 Week 18 | Sigma: AI Sentiment Analysis with Snowflake Cortex Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday