Introduction
This week’s challenge features *secret messages*! It’s not a flashy visual, but it showcases two important features of Sigma that any developer *must* know: Input Tables and Row Level Security.
Input Tables allow Sigma users to interact with the data warehouse directly by manipulating tables at the cell-level in Sigma. These input tables can be written back to a Snowflake database and used just like any other Snowflake table.
Row Level Security is a concept in data warehousing and business intelligence tools, which allows you to show data to users depending on an attribute of that user. For example, users should only be able to see information if their full name matches a ‘Full Name’ column.
Let’s dig in!
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Requirements
- Create an input table and add the following columns
- Team Name
- Secret
- In the Team Name column, add ‘WoW Moderators’ and ‘Guest Users’ on separate rows (Capitalization matters!)
- In the Secret column, write your secret messages to the members of those teams. Bonus points if they are in the form of a couplet.
- Create two new ‘calculation’ columns
- Show – Should show True if the user is a part of the team in Team Name, and False otherwise
- Secret Protected – Should display text if Show is True, and be null otherwise
- This link may be helpful to figure out the ‘Show’ formula
- Optional – you may choose to hide the Team Name and Secret columns
- In another tab, create a new text block to display your secret message. You’ll use dynamic text and a lookup function to achieve this.
Dataset
None for this challenge!
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