January 2024 product docs updates
Hello from the dbt Docs team: @mirnawong1, @matthewshaver, @nghi-ly, and @runleonarun! First, we’d like to thank the 10 new community contributors to docs.getdbt.com 🙏 What a busy start to the year! We merged 110 PRs in January.
Here's how we improved the docs.getdbt.com experience:
- Added new hover behavior for images
- Added new expandables for FAQs
- Pruned outdated notices and snippets as part of the docs site maintenance
New content​
January saw some great new content:
- New dbt Mesh FAQs page
- Beta launch of Explorer’s column-level lineage feature
- Developer blog posts:
- The Extrica team added docs for the dbt-extrica community adapter
- Semantic Layer: New conversion metrics docs and added the parameterÂ
fill_nulls_with
 to all metric types (launched the week of January 12, 2024) - New dbt environment command and its flags for the dbt Cloud CLI
Updated content​
January also saw some refreshed content, either aligning with new product features or requests from the community:
- Native support for partial parsing in dbt Cloud
- Updated guidance on using dots or underscores in the Best practice guide for models
- Updated PrivateLink for VCS docs
- Added a new
job_runner
role in our Enterprise project role permissions docs - Added saved queries to Metricflow commands
- Removed as_text docs that were wildly outdated
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