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This month, we’re introducing tags - a flexible and familiar way to organize your Spark services. Tags can be used to organize and group services across folders, or to mark service versions. You can choose from a list of administrator-defined tags when uploading services and you can edit your tags at any time from the service version properties screen.

Enhancements are coming! Let us know how you use tags and how they help you work better, faster, and smarter.

Note: The tagging feature must be set up by your administrator. Contact our Customer Success team for more information.

 

Correlate API calls to integrating systems

Want to make sure you always know who’s calling your API and why? Trying to understand more about a specific API call to Spark? Spark can store additional information about each API call in 3 different fields: source_system, call_purpose, and correlation_id. This makes it simple for an integrating system to identify itself and the type of call it’s making. It can also assign a unique identifier (such as a quotation number or transaction ID) to a call so everyone can easily find it again and other teams can review the related data in more detail.

While this information was previously accessible when viewing individual call details or downloading call history as an Excel file, you can now use the search box on the API Call History screen to search source_system, call_purpose, and correlation_id. This makes it much faster to audit an individual API call within the Spark interface. Within the API Call History screen, it is also possible to: 1) review the specific components of the API request and response, 2) download the API call back into the Excel file, and 3) run the request again in the API Tester to examine the request and response components.

Read more about Spark Execute API request parameters in our documentation.

Sample code to pass to the Spark API

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The API Call History can be searched using additional search terms

 

What’s cooking at Coherent

  • An improved version of Xcall (our way of connecting data from different Spark services) is coming soon. We will make significant enhancements to the functionality and usability to promote better self-discovery and easier implementation.

  • You will also soon be able to compare differences in Excel workbooks between Spark service versions. Spark will provide an Excel file that highlights the differences between two versions of a Spark service.

  • We are extending our integration with Snowflake by listing Spark in the Snowflake Marketplace.

  • We are working to make Spark Assistant available in the Microsoft Office Add-Ins Store. No more working through manifest files and organizational administration, just install directly from Excel!

 

Other notable change

  • You can now download the entire Neuron compiler log output for diagnosis.

  • We are making continuous enhancements to Neuron for better file and function support for Excel edge cases, including:

    • using CLEAN, ISOWEEKNUM, TEXTAFTER, TEXTSPLIT, WEEKNUM, and WORKDAY.INTL

    • improving the functionality of IFS and SWITCH functions, when used within other formulas.

    • ensuring the correct behavior of INDEX for non-contiguous ranges.

    • performance improvements for LARGE and SMALL functions.

    • trimming extra rows from the bottom when using Xrichoutput

  • The Insights page now shows the lines of code and hours you have saved by using Spark.

  • You can now give all X-mappings names that start with numbers (for example, Xinput_123 or XCSVOutput_24thMarch)

 

Did you know?

  • Spark helps you manage end-user computing (EUC) risk According to research from Chartis, as much as $12.1 billion within the world’s 50 largest financial institutions could be at risk from improper use of EUC tools such as spreadsheets. Read our article here

  • There’s an app for that Our partners and customers are using Spark to generate apps in days, not months. Check out the latest video—and follow us on LinkedIn for more insights and conversations.

  • Meet us at Insurtech Insights Europe in London March 1-2 We’ll be presenting at the Guidewire booth and look forward to meeting many partners and customers in person. Let us know if you’ll be there! https://www.insurtechinsights.com/europe/

Should you have any questions about this release or interest in any of the updates above, please reach out to us via email.

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