Demos highlight what we are working on or experimenting with, but are not a guarantee of release. Let us know your thoughts at support@omni.co.
Global color palettes
Gustav Staprans ·Visualization Administration
A first look at global color palette controls - now manage palettes for the Omni environment including diverging and gradient palettes with a full admin UI
Cross tab cell references
Cathy Lennon ·Calcs Workbook
Why isn’t calling data from another query as easy as Excel or Sheets? Just reference the field and put data next to each other. Now you can with simple cross-sheet cell references to bring queries next to each other without joins or models or lookups, just ”=“
Smarter, stickier vis config
Nate Agrin ·Visualization
The launch of sticky vis config over a huge number of user actions in the UI. Smarter, better visualization as you refine queries in the app - sticky colors, retaining changes between different vis types, smarter retention of facets on new fields.
Branches for external Git pull requests
Conrad Slimmer ·Modeling
New settings for git to create branches for pull requests created outside of Omni, for more robust change management in product for folks using git outside the app
Dynamic schemas in dbt
Buck Ryan ·dbt Modeling
New dynamic schema controls with dbt
Better branch creation
Conrad Slimmer ·Modeling Workbook
Smarter branch creation - adding existing changes on save to the new branches
Download for hidden columns
Conrad Slimmer ·Export Workbook Dashboards
Controls to download hidden columns for curated data tables
Embed user management API
Chris Merrick ·Embed Adminstration
A new API to manage embed users (list, delete), in order to manage privacy deletion in bulk
TEXT() pushdown for numerics and dates
Cathy Lennon ·Calcs Workbook
The ability to push down more TEXT() metrics to the model - for both numeric formats like percent or decimal, and datetime formats
Content owner re-assignment
Eli Cohen ·Workbook Dashboards
New controls to re-assign ownership for content
Better model join validation
Steven Talbot ·Modeling
Better validation for joins through the context of topics
Grouping measures outside pivots
Steven Talbot ·Workbook
Grouping measures inside pivots to cluster metrics instead of dimensions
IDE folding
Jared Hardy ·Modeling
Folding in the IDE to open up quicker, easier navigation in large topics or view files
Aliased joins and renamed metrics inside topics (design pattern)
Colin Zima ·Workbook Modeling
A quick design pattern for aliased joins inside topics, including renaming metrics specific to the topic (instead of globally)