A recent release to the Workiva platform included improvements to the following products and features. You can learn more about each item in the sections below.
Carbon
New: Export Purchase calculation details — be audit-ready!
General
New: Format your hyperlinks in Style Guide
Improved: Folder Copy content placeholders and secondary connections
Wdata
New: Intelligent Companion within Wdata Tables and Query experience
Carbon
Export Purchase calculation details
You can now export the calculation details for your purchased goods and services from Workiva Carbon.
From Measure, select Purchases then click Export audit details to get a CSV file that includes activity details, calculation results, GHG Protocol context, and emission factor and conversion details.
To learn more, see this Workiva Support page: Be audit-ready with Purchase calculation details.
General
Format your hyperlinks in Style Guide
You can now customize the appearance of your hyperlinks in your Style Guide. This update gives you granular control over formatting while reducing the need to create different styles for your hyperlinks when required to maintain your design. By leveraging the new hyperlink styles, you can achieve a more consistent, professional look across your entire project with a more streamlined Style Guide.
To learn more, see this Workiva Support page: Hyperlink styles.
Folder Copy improvements for content placeholder secondary connections
We’ve improved how Content Placeholder secondary connections (a placeholder connection brought into a document through a destination link) are handled when copying folders.
Previously, when a folder containing documents with these secondary connections was copied, the connections did not automatically update to the newly copied source spreadsheet. An initial publish of the source document was required before the secondary connections would update.
With this improvement, secondary placeholder connections now update automatically as part of the folder copy process. Documents copied into the destination folder correctly connect to the newly copied source spreadsheet without any additional steps. This enhancement removes the need to manually publish links after copying a folder and ensures copied content is immediately ready to use.
Wdata
Intelligent Companion within Wdata Tables and Query experience
We are excited to announce the availability of the Intelligent Companion within Wdata’s Tables and Query experience. We heard your feedback that building complex queries can be challenging and that the visual query builder didn't support every operation you wanted. The Intelligent Companion allows you to write SQL using natural language to build Wdata queries — no familiarity with SQL needed! Just tell the companion what you want to do, and you'll receive a well-formed SQL statement that can be inserted directly into the Wdata Query text.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Natural Language to SQL: Build robust SQL queries simply by describing what you want to achieve. The companion understands the tables available in your query sources.
- Query Fixes: Quickly fix broken queries caused by syntax errors.
- Enhanced Understanding: Easily learn more about the data sources and/or the query itself, eliminating the need to manually parse complex SQL.
- Effortless Modifications: Modify existing queries without requiring additional assistance.