May 8, 2026

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dbt Environment Visibility Fix

Buck Ryan · dbt Fixes a bug where users couldn’t see environments owned by others when selecting a branch environment; now all environments are visible and grouped by owner type.

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Deferred dbt Environments

Buck Ryan · dbt New feature that lets a development environment defer to production for any views that don’t match a locally-built dbt model, with a visual indicator highlighting which schemas are in the dev environment.

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AI Split View Draft Mode

Gustav Staprans · AI Demo of AI entering draft mode on a published dashboard and making chart type changes (e.g. switching to line charts) without the user manually entering edit mode first.

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Forecasting Improvements

Trip Tate · Dashboards AI Visualization Forecasting now queries at a daily grain to build a current-period forecast before stepping up to the output grain, and joins back forecast values for better visualization rather than using a chart overlay.

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Blobby Dashboard Summary Tile

Trip Tate · Dashboards Blobby Builds Dashboards now supports automatically including an AI-generated summary tile alongside charts in a dashboard plan.

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Dynamic Connection Environments

Trip Tate · Dashboards Refinements to the dynamic connection environments feature, including how manual environment assignments work alongside user attributes, a self-referential base environment, and scheduler integration to run schedules against a chosen environment.

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Multi-Button Toggle Filter

Alisa Tatarinova · Dashboards Adds support for a multi-button toggle group on string filters, allowing users to select multiple values from a button group instead of a single toggle.

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Pinned Filter Bar

Alisa Tatarinova · Dashboards Filters Dashboard setting to pin the filter bar so it stays visible while scrolling; includes a discussion about mobile behavior.

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World Cup Bracket Challenge

Peter Whitehead · Visualization Dashboards Fun Preview of a fun internal Omni-powered World Cup bracket app with data-driven insights, head-to-head match history, and drill-through dashboards for each team.

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Layers and Multiple Measures

Rob Miller · Visualization Work-in-progress feature allowing multiple measures to render in their own independent layers, with improved legend behavior and the ability to split individual measures by a dimension without affecting other layers.

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Custom Homepage Dashboard

Bernard Sanders · Administration Dashboards New global (and per-user) setting to replace the default Omni homepage with any dashboard; also supports passing as a URL parameter for embed via user attributes.

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Instance Creation Admin Tool

Brian Frantz · Internal New internal admin tool at admin.omniapp.co that lets any team member self-serve the creation of new Omni instances across AWS and Azure regions, replacing the previous ops-ticket process.

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Dashboard Filter Overload Helper

James Davidson · Filters Dashboards Quick UI helper that surfaces all filters already applied to a tile directly from the dashboard, making it easy to overload or sync filters without hunting through large field lists.

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Default Connection Setting for AI

Gustav Staprans · AI Administration Adds the ability to set a default connection in the AI chat interface, so users land on their preferred connection rather than having to switch manually each session.

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Dashboard Filter Workbook Context

James Davidson · Filters Dashboards Companion to the filter overload helper — when editing a tile’s workbook, surfaces dashboard-level filters as recommended additions so filter state stays in sync between the dashboard and workbook.

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LLM Benchmarking Omni vs Claude vs Cortex

Colin Zima · AI Data Presents preliminary results from a rigorous internal benchmarking framework comparing Omni’s AI query quality, cost, and speed against Claude (three configurations) and Snowflake Cortex — Omni leads on all three dimensions.

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AI Viz Bug Fixes and Improvements

Nathan Agrin · Visualization AI Several AI viz fixes: KPI tiles now show a recoverable error state instead of crashing, org color palette is now respected by the AI viz API, a new auto-viz parameter applies heuristic-based chart generation, and legend/margin rendering is improved for long legends.

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Google Sheets App Script Integration

Bernard Sanders · Export Google Sheets A shareable Apps Script that adds an Omni menu item to Google Sheets, allowing users to sync data from multiple Omni dashboard tiles into specific sheet locations — built in response to a Looker competitive gap.

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Slack Bot Feedback Buttons

Eli Cohen · Slackbot AI Adds inline thumbs-up/thumbs-down feedback buttons to Omni AI responses in Slack, with a follow-up form for additional detail, feeding results into the analytics feedback tracking system.

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Dashboard Filter Opt-In

Meredith Dodge · Dashboards Feature-flagged change that lets users toggle a filter to stop auto-applying to newly added queries, switching from the current opt-out model to an explicit opt-in model for more controlled filter scoping.

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Markdown / HTML App Rendering

Nathan Agrin · Dashboards AI Proof-of-concept for higher-fidelity Omni app rendering using MDX (Markdown + JSX/React), enabling reusable components, dynamic filters, and Omni theme integration within embedded apps.

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Measure Name, Measure Values for Charts

Rob Miller · Visualization New functionality to facet different measures the same way you can with dimensions using dynamic measure-name, measure-value tokens.