Release note - KAWA 1.36

1. New Features

1.1 Artifacts — a workspace library for your files

The Artifacts tab is a workspace-level library for the files you bring into KAWA: a single place to upload, store, preview, version, publish, and download PDFs, images, presentations, spreadsheets, text, application files, and other binaries without leaving the platform. Where sheets hold your modeled data and dashboards hold your live views, Artifacts holds your files — the documents and deliverables you want to keep, version, and share with your team.

You can read more about this in the Artifacts section.

• Create an artifact — click (+ Artifact) at the top right, or the (+) at the top of the left panel, enter a Name, and choose a Type (Application, PDF, Image, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Binary, or Text). An artifact is created as an empty container ("No versions yet") and populated by adding a file as its first version.

• Version every file — each artifact keeps a full history (v1, v2, …), each version showing its timestamp and author, with the current one marked. Add a version from the (+) in the VERSIONS panel; the file chooser only lists files matching the artifact's type, and an optional Description can be added per version. Updating a file — a revised report, an updated deck, a corrected dataset — never loses the version it replaces.

• Preview and act on a version — opening an artifact shows a detail page with a Details panel (Creator, Access, Created/Updated), a Versions panel, and a Preview that renders supported types directly in the browser (a text file as a table, a presentation slide by slide) with zoom controls. Header actions: Download (save the version in its original format), Publish, Open (open in a new tab), and Details (show/hide the panels).

• Publish with a visibility level — choose a version and who can open it:

  • Restricted — no shareable link; reachable only inside the workspace.

  • Signed-in users — anyone signed in who has the link can open it.

  • Anyone with the link — no sign-in required.

  The current state is shown in the Published column.

• Govern anonymous access — a new Anonymous tab under Workspace → Permissions controls which actions anonymous artifacts may perform in the workspace, grouped into READ (Query, Get workflow status, Get workflow definition, List workflow run tasks, Get ETL status, Download file), WRITE (Patch data, Upload file), EXECUTION (Run workflow, Run ETL), and a WARNING group of sensitive actions (Generate by AI). Any action left off is disallowed.

• Use artifacts in workflows — two new KAWA actions connect artifacts to automations:

  • Load artifact — load a stored artifact (Latest or a pinned version) so its properties (Author, Version, Description) are available to later steps via bindings (e.g., Send email, AI prompt, Generate output, Run python script).

  • Save artifact — persist a workflow's file output as a new version of an existing or newly created artifact; earlier versions are kept, and the result stays available in the Artifacts tab and to later Load artifact steps.

1.2 Workflows — Approval step for User Input tasks

The workflow form builder now includes an Approval input for User Input tasks. It comes seeded with editable "Approve" / "Reject" options, and KAWA automatically generates an If / Else branch for each option immediately after the task — so an approver's decision routes the run without any manual branch setup.

1.3 Workflows — File input

Workflows can now collect a file from the user. A new File input is available in two places:

• As a data input in the Task Input Form of a User task (+ Add data input → File), so an assignee can upload a file as part of completing the task.

• As a workflow input on the Manual run trigger (+ Add data input → File), so a user starting the run manually is prompted to upload a file.

Either way, the uploaded file is passed into the run and can be used by downstream tasks.

1.4 Python — Workflow tools with the @kawa_workflow_tool decorator

Python workflow scripts gain a first-class way to declare their interface. The new @kawa_workflow_tool decorator lets a script declare its input files, output files, output scalars, and named output data frames, which downstream tasks can bind to individually. An overview panel summarizes each tool's inputs and outputs.

• Scripts can now produce multiple named output data frames in a single run, and each downstream task selects and binds to the specific output it needs.

1.5 Dashboards — Edit sheet data in place

Editable sheet views embedded in dashboards can now be edited without opening them full-screen. A new "Edit data" toolbar on dashboard sheet widgets opens a buffered edit session: changes are collected as pending edits and either committed on Save or discarded on Cancel. This extends the sheet Edit mode introduced in 1.35 to dashboards.

1.6 Data sources — Feed type switcher

The data source overview now shows a "Feed type" section with the current loading mode. Users can switch between Incremental and Reset before insert directly from the overview — with an inline warning about the impact of the change — instead of going through a separate toolbar action.

1.7 Sharing — Share with individual users

Entities can now be shared with individual users, not only teams. The Share dialog uses a single combined picker with a Users / Teams toggle, and each user or team gets its own Viewer / Editor access level.

1.8 Permissions — Reworked workspace roles

The workspace permissions UI has been reworked for clarity:

• Clearer role names — Explorer, Builder, and Admin — with a role field on the User Profile tab.

• Share and write permissions are combined into a single "Share and Write" group.

• Admin-level permissions are grouped into a highlighted "danger zone".

2. Improvements & Bugs fixes

2.1 Workflows

• Added a "Left Anti Join" type to the Join task, returning rows from Dataset A with no match in Dataset B.

• Added auto-matching of join columns by name, pre-selecting columns that exist on both sides of the join.

• Added a "Preview workflow" button to the sub-process task, opening a read-only preview of the selected sub-workflow.

• Updated the workflow header to a breadcrumb-style header matching other entity pages (inline rename, favourite star, share, and Workflow / Run history tabs), and improved the creation flow to prompt for a name and description.

• Fixed workflow updates to share the layouts backing COMPUTE / CHART tasks, so adding or rebuilding a task no longer leaves those layouts private and breaks workspace mounts for non-admin members.

• Fixed workflow filters so an invalid or missing variable binding is surfaced and blocks saving, instead of failing silently until deploy; the collapsed filter card now shows the binding's real name and turns red when broken.

2.2 Sheets & Computations

• Added the ability to duplicate a lookup (linked) column — like duplicating a formula — keeping the same target view, source field, aggregation, and join keys.

• Added view / edit for formula, lookup, and mapping columns in the Sheet model section.

• Added editable multi-line descriptions to formula, lookup, and mapping columns, accessible from an info icon in their editors.

• Added support for integer and date columns as mapping keys, so mapping columns can key off numeric and date values in addition to text.

• Added a distinct icon for editable sheets wherever sheets are listed.

• Added a computed-columns count to each sheet in the home page catalog, updating automatically as computed columns are added or removed in the grid view.

• Fixed formula creation in grid view so users without formula edit permission can create a new formula, instead of being blocked by a permission check that was mistakenly applied in create mode.

2.3 Charts & segmentation

• Added a per-series Bar / Line type toggle to grid-based charts, so a single chart can mix bar and line series.

• Added a 3M (three-month) granularity option to date and date-time segmentation across the app.