This week we’re continuing our app redesign a new page header, favourites in your sidebar, and revamping our views feature!

An Improved Filters Experience

We’ve redesigned the filters UI to appear inline for a cleaner, more accessible experience—no more hidden drop downs.

Along with the visual update, we’ve added powerful new capabilities:

1. “Is empty”/“Is not empty” operators for more flexible filtering

2. Custom value entry for filters, even if the value isn’t in the predefined list:

3. Visibility into filtered-out options so you can see what’s being excluded based on the current context

Saved Views

SELECT has a lot of various filters, and you may configure a page to be particularly insightful, but forget what you did next time you visit. Saved views allow you to save your pages configuration for quick reuse later.

Here are some key enhancements we made:

• A shiny new interface for configuring views, including icons and colours to make them easier to find.

• New permissions around views: Views can now optionally be unique to you, shared between team members, or shared across the entire account.
• Reasonable default views (coming soon): There’s a handful of pages where we’re adding some views by default to your accounts. Want to check up on all your failing workloads and what they cost? There’s a view for that! There’s far too many to list here, but expect to see these added to your account sometime next week.
• A views page to keep track of all your views, including our new seeded views!

• New options for managing your views: including default views - which will be preselected for you whenever you visit the page, and last but not least, favouriting a view to pin it to your sidebar!

Favorites

You can now favorite any page in SELECT along with saved views, so they appear at the top of your sidebar for quick and easy access!

• Favorite pages from the breadcrumbs available on the header of a page

• Favorite saved views from the saved views menu

• Access, reorganize, and manage your favorites in the sidebar

Other Releases

Here are some other things we shipped last week.

New Features

• 🪄 Add more dbt Cloud columns to dbt run history
• 🪄 Improved UI for Metadata Sync Status
• 🪄 We updated our table cell components to dynamically show you more information based on the width
• 🪄 During incidents, the sidebar shows a notification card
• 🪄 Improved email address validation when adding a new destination

Improvements

• 🚀 Improved UX of insights across the app
• 🚀 Allow the user to switch between stacked bar or line chart types on almost all pages
• 🚀 New Insight for queries which use inefficient Cortex models
• 🚀 New Insight: Run Frequency
• 🚀 Insight for tables that update a lot more than their upstream or downstream tables
• 🚀 New Insight for tables with frequent DML updates that could potentially benefit for batching

Bugs

• 🐛 Fixed bug showing 0 runs on some Looker workloads
• 🐛 in Monitors, fixed Run History columns showing all runs and sorting for Period Analyzed
• 🐛 Fix the process of modifying the name of an SSO Group which grants permissions
• 🐛 Fix Lineage default filters for Custom Workloads
• 🐛 Improved single-table page performance