April 2025 10.8.0.cl

ThoughtSpot introduces Spotter shortcuts that allow you to select from existing verified data constructs, including columns, filter values, and search data keywords. These shortcuts allow you to mix natural language and deterministic inputs when using Spotter. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Spotter shortcuts.

You can now add a parameter as a variable in the x and y-axis labels and column names of an Answer. When you select a different parameter value in the Answer, previously only the data changed. Now contextual information (such as axis name, column header, and legends) also updates to reflect parameter selected. Any place a parameter is used in Liveboards or Answers automatically displays the current information associated with the selected parameter value. For example, if you have a parameter which contains three possible values (Price, Shipping Cost, and Quantity), when you select Price, the information about the price of items is displayed. When you select Shipping Cost, the information updates to show shipping-related information, and so on.

For more information, see Parameters in axis and column names of charts and tables.

In this release, we introduce a new way of adding multiple measures to pivot table charts called blended axes. With blended axes, you can group measures and control them through a system-defined chip called Values in the chart configuration settings. This chip acts like an attribute, with the different measures as its unique values. You can also place measures in rows of pivot tables instead of columns. This makes it possible to have more combinations and configurations of charts, including slicing the color for different measures, comparing multiple measures together, and more customizable pivot configurations.

For more information, see Blended axes in a pivot table.

You can now set KPI alerts to trigger when a selected attribute changes. This can include changes in the value of the attribute, such as an increase in sales by percentage by state, or a scheduled alert to trigger on a weekly basis.

For example, if you wanted to create an alert for a KPI tracking sales of different phones by brand, you could choose the intended brands as attributes and set an alert to be notified when sales for those specific brands dropped by 5%. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Create an alert by attributes.

The following changes to change analysis for KPI charts are now available to all users and on by default:

For more information, see KPI change analysis.

In this release ThoughtSpot supports the following new system languages:

ThoughtSpot now supports bilingual keywords for the Japanese locale. When your system language is set to Japanese, you can now enter keywords in either English or Japanese while searching.

For more information, see 日本語 Keyword reference.

ThoughtSpot introduces whole number formatting for Japanese Yen (JPY) currency. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Set number.

ThoughtSpot Liveboard PDFs include a cover page and filter pages that contain information about the filters applied. You can now use the PDF Options checkboxes to choose to include or exclude these page when downloading or scheduling a Liveboard PDF. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Download a Liveboard as a PDF.

ThoughtSpot introduces enhanced number formatting controls for measures that are marked as attributes in the data source. Use this enhanced formatting to ensure that measures marked as attributes are formatted with the appropriate number format.

For more information, see Set number.

To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

ThoughtSpot introduces a feature to override displayed {Null} and {Empty} values with a customizable value. This allows you to define how null data values appear to better meet your organization’s specific needs.

For more information, see How NULL and blank values are displayed.

To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

You can now create your own charts in ThoughtSpot using the Muze charting library. A developer can create new chart types by writing the code in the code builder. To enable this feature, contact your ThoughtSpot administrator.

For more information, see Creating charts with Muze Studio.

For more information, see Creating charts with Muze Studio.

Model knowledge cards are now available to all users and on by default. With knowledge cards, you can now see more detail about tables and columns before you add them to a Model. To view the knowledge card, click the knowledge card button , and then click the table or column. For more information, see Knowledge cards.

You can now migrate feedback between Models using the feedback TML file. Select the more options icon on the Model and hover over the TML section to import or export the TML file containing your feedback.

For more information, see Migrate Spotter feedback using TML and TML for Spotter feedback.

This feature provides the ability to define a column name or description alias in a Worksheet or Model which allows column names and descriptions to be displayed in a supported system language. When enabled, column names and descriptions in the Search Data and Answer interface display in the system language selected by the user in their ThoughtSpot user profile. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Column and description aliases for localization.

Join cardinality change for global joins is now available to all users and on by default. You can now change the cardinality of a join (1:1, 1:Many, Many:1) without needing to delete and remake the join. For more information, see Change join cardinality.

ThoughtSpot now distinguishes between regular query consumption and Spotter queries within the Query Stats Worksheet. For more information, see System Worksheets.

We now support OAuth with PKCE for Denodo.

We redesigned and streamlined the process to create a Connection. Set up your Connection in four easy steps by selecting a data source, configuring the Connection, selecting databases, and selecting tables. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see New connection configuration experience.

Bridge provides options to securely connect your data source with ThoughtSpot Cloud, as an alternative to PrivateLink, VPC Peering, or VPN tunnels. We added support for Bridge for the following connectors:

For more information, see Bridge connectivity for Cloud Data Warehouses and Databases.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

For the latest information about features to be deprecated or removed, see Deprecated and removed features.

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Where previously you could ask questions in natural language in Slack using the ThoughtSpot app, you can now use Spotter to conversationally search your data in Slack. Follow-up questions remain within the same thread, preserving context. Pin a Worksheet or Model to a channel to ensure quick access to data from that Worksheet or Model. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Spotter in Slack.

Filters and parameters that are not relevant to a tab are hidden by default when you open and view a Liveboard. You can choose to view all filters and parameters, including those that are not relevant to the tab, so that you can quickly create a new view or download the Liveboard without having to switch tabs and apply filters individually.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Apply filters to specific visualizations or tabs.

In this release, we provide new options for sorting and filtering Answers and Liveboards, as well as the option to export them to TML. These options are available in the home page, as well as the Liveboards and Answers pages of the Insights app in the new navigation and homepage experience. The options include the following:

To confirm you are using the new navigation and homepage, go to your user profile and make sure Navigation and Homepage is set to New experience. For more information, see Home page.

Gradient-based conditional formatting is now available to all users and on by default. You can now choose multiple colors to define a gradient in charts that support gradients — geo heatmap, geo area, heatmap, and treemap charts. You can control the low, mid, and high values, and numerical value points to customize the gradient.

For more information, see Change chart colors.

ThoughtSpot users can now create bins for aggregate results in query sets. This feature allows you to create groups based on bins of specified sizes with minimum and maximum values. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Query sets.

You can now pass filters from a query into a set definition without needing to remake the set to include the filter. For example, if you create a query set defined as a list of SKUs that are ranked based on sales, where 1 through 10 are defined as Gold, 11 through 50 are defined as Silver, and the remainder are defined as Bronze, you can now add a filter such as Region. You can configure the set’s filter behavior from the TML, instructing ThoughtSpot to exclude or include specific columns, or to accept all filters by default. To enable query sets, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Passthrough filters for query sets.

Advanced conditional formatting is now available to all users and on by default. In addition to using conditional formatting to visually highlight a threshold in a measure (for example, sales > 10000), you can now use conditional formatting to compare a column’s measures to another column. For example, if you search for sales this year compared to sales last year, you can highlight where sales this year were less than last year. You can set multiple conditional formatting rules to a single table.

For more information, see Advanced conditional formatting.

Custom comparison points for KPI charts are now on by default and available to all users. Previously, time-series KPI charts had limited options when comparing to past periods. For example, a weekly KPI could be compared against the previous week, the previous month’s same week, the previous quarter’s same week, or the previous year’s same week. Now, you can set a custom point in data against which ThoughtSpot compares the most recent data point, any number of weeks ago. This feature is applicable to all KPIs including time keywords like weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Your chosen comparison point persists for all viewers of the KPI. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see KPI charts.

We made the following changes to change analysis for KPI charts:

You can now reorder the parameters in Liveboards and Answers, in the same way that you can reorder filters. When you edit a Liveboard or Answer to reorder the parameters and save your changes, the new order is reflected when anyone opens the Liveboard or Answer.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Reorder parameters in Liveboards and Answers.

Custom charts are now available to all users and on by default. Custom charts allow you to use charts created outside of ThoughtSpot, including from third-party chart libraries. For more information, see Custom charts.

ThoughtSpot introduces a brand new pivot table chart. The new pivot table charts have the following features:

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Pivot table charts.

You can now run change analysis on queries that contain group aggregate expressions.

The ThoughSpot Connected Slides add-on for Google Slides has the following new features:

For more information, see ThoughtSpot Connected Slides.

In this release, we introduce Optimize for Spotter. It is an easier way of indexing the Worksheet and Model attribute columns required for accurate searches on specific column values in Spotter. After enabling Sage on a Worksheet or Model and clicking the Optimize for Spotter button, ThoughtSpot detects which columns are not indexed and allows you to index the ones you need for Spotter. For more information, see Optimize for Spotter.

We’ve introduced the Spotter Conversations Liveboard to give you real-time visibility into user interactions with Spotter. With this Liveboard, administrators can:

For more information, see Spotter Conversations Liveboard.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to ClickHouse. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see ClickHouse.

The Data model editor has enhanced error messaging to help you understand and fix errors. Global errors, like a session expiring or an error when saving changes, are now displayed in a pop-up window. Local errors, associated with a specific tab, display a red dot on the tab and a banner under the tab after it is selected.

In this release, we’ve added new security log events for creating, updating, and deleting the following:

You can access security logs from ThoughtSpot by pushing the logs to your SIEM server, or by pulling the logs using the Audit Logs API. For more information, see Collect security logs.

Rather than using a system-generated GUID to identify individual objects in TML files, you can now manually set an object property (obj_id) with a uniqueness constraint on the Org level. This allows you to manage content across multiple Orgs without having to manually change the GUID of an object each time you move it between Orgs. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see User-defined ID in TML.

ThoughtSpot now allows you to assign different configurations when creating a connection, to run row count stats and keep them separate from other process and user queries. Use this feature to help with auditing and tracking your cloud data warehouse usage by user and process. Optimize costs by assigning the right resources to the right process and users.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

Import and export users, groups, roles, and privileges programmatically, using ThoughtSpot Modeling Language. You can use this feature to migrate from one environment to another, and user, group, and role configurations do not need to be recreated. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Managing users, Managing groups, Understand RBAC and privileges.

You can now use TML to define a list of associated columns that must be included in a search if a certain column is added. This allows you to make sure users do not remove necessary context from a search by removing a column. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Mandatory columns.

ThoughtSpot now supports multifactor authentication (MFA) for customers using local authentication powered by Enhanced IAM with IAM v2. Use MFA to enable secure access to your ThoughtSpot instance for your local auth users by introducing an additional authentication factor configurable at the cluster level. We support Okta Verify, Google Authenticator, and Email-based time-based one-time passcode (TOTP) authentication with ThoughtSpot MFA.

For more information, see Multifactor authentication for customers using local authentication.

All ThoughtSpot Enterprise clusters will get enabled with Orgs by default starting with this release. Your environment remains a single-tenant environment until you create an Org. You can delete all the Orgs you created and use only the Primary Org if you want a single-tenant environment with Orgs enabled.

For more information, see Multi-tenancy with Orgs.

ThoughtSpot’s org context for sharing links is now available to all users and enabled by default. URLs in emails now include Org context so that users are taken directly to the correct Liveboard in the correct Org even if they belong to multiple Orgs. You can also move between different browser tabs that point to different Orgs. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Org context for sharing links.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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To increase relevance to your search, Spotter now surfaces past global reference questions as sample questions below the search bar in the home page.

With ThoughtSpot Connected Sheets, a free add-on for Google Sheets, you can now update your existing search results to get the latest data without having to enter the search query again. You can do this for the current sheet or all sheets. For details, see ThoughtSpot Connected Sheets.

Anomaly-based alerts are now on by default and available to all users. You can receive alerts when data of KPIs you are subscribed to fall outside the predicted value range. When creating an alert, you can specify the time and frequency at which ThoughtSpot checks the KPI’s data against the values predicted by ML models trained on the data. For example, you can create an alert for a sales weekly KPI, and specify that ThoughtSpot compare the values every Monday at 5 PM. You may also add individual subscribers to the alert. If the KPI’s data falls outside the predicted range, ThoughtSpot sends an alert to your email and, if applicable, your subscribers' emails.

For more information, see Create an anomaly alert.

Now with change analysis, you get a snapshot view of all the factors/attributes that have changed in a single view, to get an overview of your changes in the chart. You can click View details to see the changes by attribute, or select Customize to change which measures or attributes to analyze.

For more information, see Change analysis summary tab.

Previously, time-series KPI charts had limited options when comparing to past periods. For example, a weekly KPI could be compared against the previous week, the previous month’s same week, the previous quarter’s same week, or the previous year’s same week. Now, you can set a custom point in data against which ThoughtSpot compares the most recent data point, any number of weeks ago. This feature is applicable to all KPIs including time keywords like weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Your chosen comparison point persists for all viewers of the KPI. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see KPI charts.

ThoughtSpot users can now define groups for included query values using conditions in Query sets. Conditions allow you to create groups using operators, to specify the parameters of the group.

For example, you could create a query set that list each customer, their sales dollar amount and then add a formula that ranks the amount in descending order. You could then add groups to define GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE levels where Gold is Ranked 1-10, Silver 11-50 and Bronze everyone else.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Query sets.

We are introducing a new pivot table chart. To access this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. This new chart has improvements in the following areas:

Custom charts allow you to use charts created outside of ThoughtSpot, including from third-party chart libraries. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

We have streamlined the design of Liveboard headers to ensure maximum visibility of Liveboard visualizations no matter the size of the screen. Tabs have been moved to the top line of the header, next to the title.

For more information, see Liveboards.

You can now authenticate a Databricks connection using a service principal and OAuth secret. For more information, see Add a Databricks connection.

Administrators can now enable or disable the display of the org name and Org switcher for users. By default, the org name and switcher are visible to all users. Cluster administrators can modify this setting so that users with only a single org do not see the org name and switcher. For more information, see Orgs administration.

Admin users now have more control on how users sign in to Connections authenticated using OAuth when the connection authentication has expired. Previously, the Sign in with OAuth button appeared only on Liveboards built on the Connection. Now, users can access the sign-in flow from Search Data and Answers as well. For more information, see OAuth sign-in for Liveboards and Answers.

You can now change the cardinality of a join (1:1, 1:Many, Many:1) without needing to delete and remake the join. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Change join cardinality.

ThoughtSpot’s schema viewer connection picker is now on by default and available to all users. You can now use the dropdown or search to select your connection in the schema viewer.

For more information, see Schema viewer connection picker.

Administrators can now enable custom charts on the Admin > All Orgs > Early access features page.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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Introducing Spotter, our new AI-powered, unified conversational search experience. This feature replaces the previous Sage search experience. When enabled, you can enter the Spotter interface from the search bar on the Home page, or by clicking Spotter on any visualization pinned to a Liveboard.

You can ask successive questions to hone in on business insights, open a preview of the underlying data, drill down, edit or undo changes to the resulting AI-generated Answers, see what terms Spotter changed from question to question, and submit feedback to train Spotter’s interpretations. Analysts can also coach Spotter on how to interpret certain terms from the Admin page. For more information, see Spotter for Cloud.

We made the following changes to visualizations on Liveboards:

For more information, see Basic Liveboard usage.

We have streamlined the design of Liveboard headers to ensure maximum visibility of Liveboard visualizations no matter the size of the screen. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Liveboards.

You can now choose multiple colors to define a gradient in charts that support gradients — geo heatmap, geo area, heatmap, and treemap charts. You can control the low, mid, and high values, and numerical value points to customize the gradient. For more information, see Change chart colors.

ThoughtSpot introduces the ability for users to choose to export a Liveboard as a PDF or a PNG image when creating a new sync pipeline. PDFs include the complete Liveboard. PNG images are of the first page of the Liveboard. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Sync data from ThoughtSpot to Slack.

Models are now available to all customers and enabled by default. Worksheets are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Existing Worksheets continue to be available and editable, but Worksheet creation is disabled by default. To enable Worksheet creation, you must contact your ThoughtSpot administrator. You can migrate an individual Worksheet to a Model. Bulk migration of Worksheets to Models will be available in the 10.5.0.cl release. For more information, see Models.

With knowledge cards, you can now see more detail about tables and columns before you add them to a Model. To view the knowledge card, click the knowledge card button , and then click the table or column. To enable this feature, contact your ThoughtSpot administrator. For more information, see Knowledge cards.

The joins tab for Worksheets and Models is now updated to match the join creation UI for Models.

You can now control the default display mode for Answers (table or chart). You can also decide which chart types are available and default for your cluster. For example, you can set the default chart type for an Answer as a bar chart. You could also decide to remove pie charts from your cluster. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Control default and available chart types.

Admin users can now navigate to the ThoughtSpot Status page to monitor the health of services on their cluster. The Status page displays the status of different ThoughtSpot services, like Authentication, Data Connections, Infrastructure Services, KPI Monitor, Search Data, Search Service, SpotIQ, Sync, and Spotter. The page also shares scheduled maintenance timelines, outage notifications, and incident reporting and updates.

To access the status page, add /status to the end of your cluster url (for example, https://<clustername>.thoughtspot.cloud/#/status). To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Status page.

We made the following changes to permissions regarding version control:

For more information, see Version control for Liveboards and Answers.

Analysts can now set definitions in a Model’s TML file to group columns together in the Data panel for Search Data. You can also use TML properties to enable or disable alphabetical sorting of the groups. For more information, see TML for Models.

In the Create a custom calendar interface, you can now set up a template calendar and download it as a CSV file with all columns, based on the values you inputted. You can then modify the file and share it with your ThoughtSpot administrator to upload it to your database. Once the CSV is uploaded to the database, you can set up the calendar by directly mapping the table. For more information, see Create a custom calendar.

ThoughtSpot introduces a connection picker to the schema viewer. You can now use the dropdown or search to select your connection in the schema viewer.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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Natural language search and object search are now separated. To search for an AI-generated answer using natural language, enter your question in the search bar marked Ask a business question in natural language on the home page. To search for related Answers and Liveboards, enter your question in the search bar marked Find existing Answers and Liveboards in the top navigation bar.

For information on the changes in ThoughtSpot Embedded, see Search experience in the ThoughtSpot developer documentation.

For any questions or concerns, contact ThoughtSpot support.

You can now manage all your Answer and Liveboard tags from one convenient window. Just click the Manage tags button at the top of your list of Liveboards or Answers, then create, edit, and delete tags. To delete and edit tags you must have administrator privileges or the can manage tags role if RBAC is enabled. For more information, see Use tags to organize.

You can now create alerts directly from the Watchlist on the home page.

For more information, see Home page and Monitor Key Performance Indicators in your data.

We have updated the Portuguese date keyword synonyms.

ThoughtSpot introduces Analyst Studio, where you can write SQL queries to create reusable Datasets. You can set schedules to refresh Datasets, or publish them to the Data Workspace, where you can join multiple Datasets to query as a whole. ThoughtSpot’s enhanced identity and access management (IAMv2) allows users with the Can manage/access analyst studio privilege to navigate to Analyst Studio seamlessly from the Analyst Studio tab or app switcher.

For more information, see Analyst Studio and Understand RBAC and privileges.

ThoughtSpot introduces access to Liveboard schedules on the home page. Users can now see all Liveboard schedules that they are subscribed to in a new section on the home page. From this page, you can edit Liveboard schedules that you created. Administrators can edit the Liveboard schedule for all schedules from this page.

For more information, see New home page and persona-based navigation.

You can now track whether or not row-level security is applied to queries. Risk and compliance analysts can track the volume of queries with row-level security applied versus those without. A row-level security tag is included in the sql query. This provides the ability to determine the number of queries that have included row-level security via the underlying database.

Each query log contains a comment as follows:

ThoughtSpot schedules can be configured to prevent new and existing schedules from being sent to external emails. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Schedule a Liveboard job.

You can now choose to sort Connections by type rather than order added to ThoughtSpot. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Categorizing Connections.

ThoughtSpot introduces Org-specific URLs. URLs in emails now include Org context so that users are taken directly to the correct Liveboard in the correct Org even if they belong to multiple Orgs. You can also move between different browser tabs that point to different Orgs.

ThoughtSpot allows customers to enable or disable local authentication at the Org and cluster levels. To enable local authentication at the cluster level, administrators require the Can manage authentication privilege. To enable local authentication at the Org level, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Managing local authentication.

Administrators now have the ability to set the new navigation and homepage experience as the default UI for all users of the cluster, if it is enabled for the cluster. This feature is available in the Admin > Early access features page. For more information, see Enable Early Access features.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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You can now receive alerts when data of KPIs you are subscribed to fall outside the predicted value range. When creating an alert, you can specify the time and frequency at which ThoughtSpot checks the KPI’s data against the values predicted by ML models trained on the data. For example, you can create an alert for a sales weekly KPI, and specify that ThoughtSpot compare the values every Monday at 5 PM. You may also add individual subscribers to the alert. If the KPI’s data falls outside the predicted range, ThoughtSpot sends an alert to your email and, if applicable, your subscribers' emails.

For more information, see Create an anomaly alert.

The "of" and "percentage of" keywords are now on by default and available to all users. You can use the "of" and "percentage of" keywords to answer questions related to mix, contribution, share of, percentage, and total ratios. These keywords help answer questions such as, "What is the share of a certain store’s sales as a percentage of the regional whole?" To try out this feature, enter a search phrase in the search bar containing the keyword, such as sales percentage of store region, and press Go.

For more information, see Keywords: Of and Percentage of.

You can now sort and filter columns in the Sage Coach fragment and query feedback pages. You can also search for specific values for worksheet, feedback provider, and edited by to further narrow your selection.

Semi-additive measures with first and last values are now available to all users and on by default. A semi-additive measure, also known as snapshot data, is a measure that is usually aggregated for all attributes except for date and time. For certain measures, like inventory, you want to know what the value was at the beginning or end of a period. In that case, you can use the last_value function to find the inventory at the end of a month, rather than aggregating all values over the month. Similarly, you can use the first_value function to find out your stock at the beginning of a month.

For more information, see Semi-additive measures with first_value and last_value functions.

You can now use TML to import and export column sets and query sets in ThoughtSpot.

For more information, see TML for Sets.

We now support OAuth with PKCE for Starburst.

Bridge provides options to securely connect your data source with the ThoughtSpot Cloud, as an alternative to PrivateLink, VPC Peering or VPN tunnels. We support Bridge for the following Connectors:

For more information, see Bridge connector for Cloud Data Warehouses.

ThoughtSpot allows customers to enable or disable local authentication at the Org and cluster levels. To enable local authentication at the cluster level, administrators require the Can manage authentication privilege. To enable local authentication at the Org level, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Managing local authentication.

ThoughtSpot introduces Org-specific URLs. URLs in emails now include Org context so that users are taken directly to the correct Liveboard in the correct Org even if they belong to multiple Orgs. You can also move between different browser tabs that point to different Orgs.

For more information, see Multi-tenancy with Orgs.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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In addition to using conditional formatting to visually highlight a threshold in a measure (for example, sales > 10000), you can now use conditional formatting to compare a column’s measures to another column. For example, if you search for sales this year compared to sales last year, you can highlight where sales this year were less than last year. You can set multiple conditional formatting rules to a single table. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Advanced conditional formatting.

ThoughtSpot now supports grouping measure in pivot tables. You can now move measures, and position them where you want in rows and columns. For more information, see Pivot tables.

ThoughtSpot is upgrading our Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities to provide a more secure login and authentication experience. This experience has been improved to ensure that you can upgrade to IAM v2 easily and with minimal downtime. For more information, see Identity and Access Management V2.

You can now delete an Org without first manually deleting the data objects, connections, groups, and users within the Org. For more information, see Create.

Version control for Liveboards and Answers is now available to all users. Now teams of analysts can more easily collaborate on content development of Liveboards and Answers. You can enable version control on specific Liveboards and Answers. With version control enabled, every time you save the Liveboard or Answer, a new version is created and stored. You can browse the version history in ThoughtSpot and restore any saved versions whenever you need to. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Version control for Liveboards and Answers.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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In this release, you can try our redesigned and customizable home page, where you can ask natural-language questions with Sage, view your watchlist, favorites, library of Answers and Liveboards, and more. With the new left-hand navigation, you can go directly to your Liveboards, Answers, SpotIQ Analysis, and Monitor Subscriptions.

This new home page experience is disabled by default. Contact your ThoughtSpot administrator to enable this feature for your cluster. After that, open your user profile, and in the Experience section, set the Navigation and Homepage to New experience. Note that this setting also enables persona-based navigation.

In this release, you can try our completely redesigned navigation experience organized by persona. The new app switcher allows business users, analysts, data engineers, administrators, and developers to work in separate contextual sections designed specifically for their needs. In addition, each app has left-hand navigation to create better consistency and ease of use for users switching between the different apps.

This new navigation experience is disabled by default. Contact your ThoughtSpot administrator to enable this feature for your cluster. After that, open your user profile, and in the Experience section, set the Navigation and Homepage to New experience. Note that this setting also enables the redesigned home page.

Drill down in change analysis is now on by default and available to all users. You can now drill down on specific columns in change analysis, in order to identify change drivers within your data. For example, if you run an analysis on sales monthly and find out that the 'jacket' item type changed the most, you can easily drill down on jacket sales and identify which region contributed the most to the change in sales.

You can now use SpotIQ analysis to forecast future trends for your KPIs. ThoughtSpot uses machine learning models that learn from past trends, growth, and seasonality to project how the target metric will trend in the future. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

ThoughtSpot introduces the ability to customize note tiles. You can now customize the appearance of note tiles. You can also edit hyperlinks and iFrames that previously had to be deleted and replaced to make changes. Images within note tiles are now responsive to screen size.

You can create query sets, which can be used to classify values in a list that you can then reuse across multiple analyses. A query set is a custom group of values from a collection of objects in your database. Query sets are community objects which remain when you navigate away from the Search Data page and can be used by any user with view access to the underlying Worksheet. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

You can now use custom charts created outside of ThoughtSpot, including third-party chart libraries. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Custom charts.

You can now connect to Alation using token-based authentication as well as service account authentication. For more information, see Alation catalog integration.

We made the following changes to Sage Coach:

ThoughtSpot introduces the ability to save table layouts in the schema viewer. Table location and size are now maintained and saved in the schema viewer.

ThoughtSpot now supports Korean and we’ve also added synonyms for date and time based keywords in German and French for a more accurate experience.

ThoughtSpot introduces a consistent sort order when exporting the TML of an object (table, SQL view, Liveboard, etc.). This ensures that unnecessary differences don’t show up between TML files when the objects haven’t really changed, and makes it easier to compare TML files.

Role-based access control (RBAC) is now available to all users. RBAC allows for more granular access privileges. Use RBAC to apply privileges customized for your organizational needs.

To enable RBAC, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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You can now conversationally search ThoughtSpot using natural language on a Liveboard visualization, asking follow-up questions for further clarification or to take your analysis in a new direction. This conversational approach allows you to begin with a simple question, and ask successive questions to refine the answer you receive. ThoughtSpot translates each natural language question into a query, and answers in chart format. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Ask Sage.

You can now use SpotIQ analysis to forecast future trends for your KPIs. ThoughtSpot uses machine learning models that learn from past trends, growth, and seasonality to project how the target metric will trend in the future. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Forecasting.

We made the following enhancements to Sage Coach:

Collibra integration is now available to all users and on by default. You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Collibra. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, this information is visible to all users. For more information, see Collibra catalog integration.

ThoughtSpot now shows you which data sources are used in a Liveboard. A Liveboard may contain visualizations from many data sources. Authors may choose to use this feature to provide other Liveboard editors with access to the underlying data sources.

The data sources appear in the Show Liveboard details modal under Data source.

For more information, see Details about a Liveboard.

ThoughtSpot introduces support for scheduling Liveboards with Excel (XLSX) attachments, in addition to the existing PDF and CSV options. This allows users to explore tabular data from these reports by using the XLSX data files. For more information, see Schedule a Liveboard job.

You can now change the filter values on Liveboards that have visualizations that include hidden columns, or a formula created from a hidden column.

Liveboard filters are now accessible to all users who have view or edit permissions to the underlying data source.

For more information, see Liveboard filters.

Personalized columns are now available to all users and on by default. Users with edit permissions on a Liveboard can set their preferred attribute columns through the change analysis window and select Apply to all users to keep those selections for any subsequent change analysis calculations on that Liveboard. Individual users can still override these preferences for their own calculations.

For more information, see Remember personalized columns.

You can now drill down on specific columns in change analysis, in order to identify change drivers within your data. For example, if you run an analysis on sales monthly and find out that the 'jacket' item type changed the most, you can easily drill down on jacket sales and identify which region contributed the most to the change in sales. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Iterative change analysis.

A semi-additive measure, also known as snapshot data, is a measure that is usually aggregated for all attributes except for date and time. For certain measures, like inventory, you want to know what the value was at the beginning or end of a period. In that case, you can use the last_value function to find the inventory at the end of a month, rather than aggregating all values over the month. Similarly, you can use the first_value function to find out your stock at the beginning of a month. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Semi-additive measures with first_value and last_value functions.

Now teams of analysts can more easily collaborate on content development of Liveboards and Answers. You can enable version control on specific Liveboards and Answers. With version control enabled, every time you save the Liveboard or Answer, a new version is created and stored. You can browse the version history in ThoughtSpot and restore any saved versions whenever you need to. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Liveboards and Answers.

We made the following enhancements to ThoughtSpot Sync:

Collibra catalog integration is now available to all users and on by default. You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Collibra into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Collibra to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status.

For more information, see Collibra catalog integration.

We now support Redshift connections using AWS IDC OAuth. For more information, see Configure AWS IDC OAuth for a Redshift connection.

ThoughtSpot now supports secondary role configuration when you create a Snowflake connection using External OAuth. When you set secondary roles to ALL, you can access all tables that any single role has access to and combine them in a single SQL query without having to switch roles.

For more information on primary and secondary roles, see Enforcement model with primary role and secondary roles and Add a Snowflake connection.

You can now create multiple configurations for each Snowflake connection. This allows you to allocate a separate Snowflake warehouse for different ThoughtSpot users or groups, eliminating the need to duplicate Liveboards and configure multiple Snowflake connections and helping you with cost tracking and chargeback. You can also use this for your search indexing so that you can control and balance the computing load. In addition, this allows you to easily test a set of Liveboards against different environments (dev, qa, prod), and configure different databases for multi-tenancy / multi-org deployments. For more information, see Creating additional configurations for your Snowflake connection.

You can now manage onboarding configuration at the Org level. Now an Org administrator can update their onboarding configuration in the Admin panel without the need to contact the tenant administrator. This feature helps to reduce possible service interruptions by allowing you to make configuration changes per Org instead of taking the whole cluster down.

Administrators can now enable version control of Liveboards and Answers. You enable version control for your ThoughtSpot Org by connecting it to a Github repository. Once enabled for the Org, version control can be enabled individually for any Liveboard or Answer. Each time a user saves changes, a new version of the Liveboard or Answer is created and stored in your Github repository. Users can easily browse and restore an older version from the Liveboard or Answer itself. For more information, see Version control for Liveboards and Answers.

You can now use the User Adoption Liveboard to understand how ThoughtSpot is saving you time with ad-hoc insights, and how many users are accessing ThoughtSpot and creating new insights every month. For more information, see User Adoption Liveboard and User Productivity.

You can now use the table TML file to make changes to connection details like remapping columns and changing data type, rather than using the connection.yaml file. This allows you to make small changes to a Connection without the need to resolve all possible errors first. You can also edit or export the Connection TML file from the Data workspace. For more information, see TML for connections.

ThoughtSpot now supports demo data access at the Org level. Customers can leverage this functionality to allow users to try building Answers and Liveboards. This is available to all users in the Org, and users are added to Demo Data Retail group by default. Org administrators can remove users from this group to remove their access to Demo Data.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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With AI Highlights, you get quick insights on how top metrics have changed in your Liveboard, dramatically reducing the time to derive insights from your KPIs. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see AI Highlights.

ThoughtSpot now supports connections to Mode. Import reusable Datasets created in Mode as table extracts to leverage the full ThoughtSpot product, from Worksheet/Model creation to Search, Answer creation, and KPI monitoring. For more information, see Connect to Mode.

Now in the new Answer data panel, you can filter as you hover on a column, By category grouping by default, and display the information panel when you click a column.

You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Collibra. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, this information is visible to all users. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Collibra integration.

You can now use custom charts created outside of ThoughtSpot, including third-party chart libraries. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Custom charts.

You can create custom sets, which can be used to classify values in a list that you can then reuse across multiple analyses. ThoughtSpot introduces custom column sets in this release. A column set is a custom group of values from a single column. For example, you can use custom sets to define regions with specific countries included or excluded. Custom sets are community objects which remain when you navigate away from the Search Data page and can be used by any user with view access to the underlying Worksheet. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Custom sets.

ThoughtSpot Sync for Google BigQuery is now on by default and available to all users. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can now sync data directly from an Answer or a custom SQL view, to your Google BigQuery cloud data warehouse. For more information, see Sync data from ThoughtSpot to Google BigQuery.

ThoughtSpot allows users to export a Liveboard as a CSV. By default, the exported CSV has some additional information, such as filters applied, and user information. ThoughtSpot introduces the ability to remove this additional information when exporting a Liveboard as a CSV. By default, this feature is turned off. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Collibra into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Collibra to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Collibra integration.

You can now create joins in your Model by clicking and dragging from one table to another.

ThoughtSpot Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) enhances the granularity of permissions with the addition of new data management privileges. The following data control privileges have been added:

RBAC is disabled by default. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

We made the following changes to ThoughtSpot feedback review for AI Answers:

You can now select a dbt connection and click Share to share the connection with other users or groups. By default, the underlying Cloud data warehouse connection is shared. Note that you need Can manage data privileges to access and share dbt connections. For more information, see Share a dbt connection.

ThoughtSpot displays dbt error messages that clearly describe whether the error originated in dbt or in ThoughtSpot, where the error was encountered, and what steps users should take to resolve the issue. For a list of the error messages ThoughtSpot supports, see dbt error messages.

When creating a Worksheet from a dbt connection, ThoughtSpot joins the tables based on the relationships defined in the underlying .yml schema file. Now, joins between the tables will be created local to the Worksheet instead of creating a global join between the tables.

ThoughtSpot now supports the ts_groups system variable in Answer and Worksheet formulas. You can use the ts_groups variable for data masking, or deciding whether to display the value of a column to a user based on their group membership. For more information, see Data masking with system variables.

ThoughtSpot incorporates PKCE for Snowflake. The addition of PKCE as an extension of the OAuth 2.0 protocol provides an added layer of security.

Dremio now supports use of OAuth with Dremio on-premises. For more information, see Configure OAuth for a Dremio connection.

To improve our error messaging when an error prevents data from loading, we introduced a broader classification that allows you to understand issues more clearly. You can click "Copy error details" to download and send a file to your administrators.

ThoughtSpot introduces support for custom URL links in scheduled Liveboard emails. If your organization has set a custom URL for your clusters, the links in scheduled emails now include the custom URL.

Developers can now create custom charts for ThoughtSpot using the ThoughtSpot Charts SDK. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Custom charts.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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With AI Highlights, you get quick insights on how top metrics have changed in your Liveboard, dramatically reducing the time to derive insights from your KPIs. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see AI highlights.

Commenting on Liveboards is now on by default and available to all users. You can now add or reply to comments, tag other users, or subscribe to comment threads directly on a Liveboard. Users can point out insights or reach out for clarification without leaving ThoughtSpot. To try it out, click the comment icon to the right of the edit icon, and select the data point you would like to comment on. For more information, see Collaborative Liveboards.

When you receive an email about a threshold or scheduled alert, ThoughtSpot now surfaces any anomalies found in your KPI. You can see the expected range of values, and click a link to view your KPI in the original Liveboard. For more information, see Monitor.

ThoughtSpot now preserves the filters you use on a KPI when you create a Monitor alert. Users with view-only access to the underlying Liveboard can now receive alert emails for filtered KPIs without saving the filters on the Liveboard.

You can now access advanced chart customization settings for Answers by selecting the Edit chart configuration icon and selecting Advanced settings. Use these settings to adjust the size and appearance of tooltips, regression lines, gridlines, and chart backgrounds. For more information, see Advanced chart settings.

Customize tooltips to make charts easier to read and reduce the time to insights for business users. Use customized tooltips to add measures, attributes, and formulas that are not visualized in the chart. You can also customize tooltips to remove certain fields from the tooltips in a complex chart so that you are not overwhelmed with irrelevant information. Configure the tooltip by selecting the Edit chart configuration icon and selecting Settings. By default, fields visualized in charts are included in the tooltip. You can remove fields or add fields that are not visualized.

You can now choose how null and missing values appear in line, column, and bar charts in ThoughtSpot. Null and missing values appear as bars of 1 pixel width on bar and column charts. You can choose whether to display null date values as zero values, line breaks, or an average of proximate values on a line chart. Rather than showing a sharp decline to zero every time there is null or missing data on your line chart, you can see the missing values represented as line breaks or averages of the closest values instead.

For more information, see Null and missing values in charts.

You can now drill down on specific columns in change analysis, in order to identify change drivers within your data. For example, if you run an analysis on sales monthly and find out that the 'jacket' item type changed the most, you can easily drill down on jacket sales and identify which region contributed the most to the change in sales. For more information, see Iterative change analysis.

Users with edit permissions on a Liveboard can set their preferred attribute columns through the change analysis window and select Apply to all users to keep those selections for any subsequent change analysis calculations on that Liveboard. Individual users can still override these preferences for their own calculations. For more information, see Remember personalized columns.

You can now specify the answering chart type when you use natural language search. For example, search for "show me sales by region as a bar chart", and the results appear in bar chart format. For more information, see Natural language search.

You can now add a formula or parameter to an Answer by navigating to the Category or A to Z view of the Data panel, clicking + Add, and selecting Formula or Parameter.

With Worksheet summary, when you search using the home page search, you get a natural language description of any Worksheet you select, summarizing the purpose of that Worksheet. You can also see the most popular columns, measures and attributes in the Worksheet, which can help you find the right worksheet.

You can now easily search for verified Liveboards with trusted content, and filter to view only verified content. Verified Liveboards are identified with a tag visible in all screens. You can also cancel verification requests when needed.

You can now rename columns in an Answer and see the new name reflected on the table header, tooltips, legend, and chart configuration menu. Changes made to an Answer are not reflected in the underlying Worksheet. For more information, see Rename a table column.

Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can now sync data directly from an Answer or a custom SQL view, to your Google BigQuery cloud data warehouse. For more information, see Sync to Google BigQuery.

Custom sorting is now available to all users and is on by default. ThoughtSpot introduces custom sorting of attributes to sort all chart types in a way that helps users to consume charts more efficiently. You can now sort on any attribute in a chart, using the custom sort column. Enter the attributes in order to set up a custom sort order.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to Google Cloud SQL for MySQL.

You can now validate connections to discover any changes in metadata after the connection was created. When you validate a connection, ThoughtSpot provides a JSON file containing details on the metadata changes. Once alerted to a metadata change, you can use TML to update the connection.

dbt core users can now use the dbt public API to upload dbt project files to ThoughtSpot. Use the dbt sync API to upload your dbt project’s zip files.

ThoughtSpot now supports dbt version 1.7.

You can now map your SAML groups and Orgs from your IDP to ThoughtSpot. For more information see, SAML group and Org mapping.

ThoughtSpot now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) for SSO with IAMv2. Multiple identity providers with OIDC such as Google , Microsoft, and Amazon are now supported. For more information, see Managing authentication with OIDC using IAMv2.

Sometimes connecting ThoughtSpot directly to your Google BigQuery database or changing your VPN/firewall configuration is not possible. For those situations, you can use Bridge to create a connection to your BigQuery database. The Bridge connector is easy to install, configure, and maintain. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Add a Google BigQuery connection.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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When giving feedback to AI-generated Answers in Sage, you now tell ThoughtSpot what search tokens to use to signify certain key terms. For example, when you search for "best performing products this year", ThoughtSpot responds with the top five products sorted by sum of sales. You can correct top five to top ten by clicking the thumbs-down icon and editing the Answer. ThoughtSpot then stores that feedback, and admin users can decide to apply the feedback globally, so that every time someone searches for "best" products, they receive the top ten results.

ThoughtSpot now preserves the filters you use on a KPI when you create a Monitor alert. Users with view-only access to the underlying Liveboard can now receive alert emails for filtered KPIs without saving the filters on the Liveboard. To enable this feature, reach out to your administrator.

Change analysis more insights are now available to all customers and are enabled by default. For example, ThoughtSpot finds values that underwent the highest percentage change between the two data points defined in your analysis, and values whose share of the total changed the most. The insights appear below the main analysis in the change analysis pop-up window. Note that insights do not appear for measures of type unique counts and ratios.

When you add a KPI to your home page watchlist, ThoughtSpot automatically creates a scheduled alert. You receive emails with updates to the KPI on a periodic basis. You can edit all scheduled alerts from the Monitor tab. For more information, see Track important KPIs.

Personalized views are now available to all users and on by default. Personalized views allow you to save your own set of values for filters and parameters in a Liveboard. You can change the values of the already present filters and parameters in a Liveboard and save the view for future use. Any changes made to the master Liveboard are carried over to the view, including changes made to pinned visualizations, tabs, filter chips, and re-ordering. Changes made to the view are not pushed to the master Liveboard. This eliminates the need to make multiple copies of a Liveboard with your preferred filter values, that can fall out of sync with the original.

Atlan is now available to all customers and is on by default. You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Atlan. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, this information is visible to all users.

You can now review user feedback from the Data workspace, and determine whether it should apply to only that user’s queries, or to the entire cluster. Use the Query Feedback modal to review feedback given to individual natural language queries, and use the Query Term Feedback modal to review the translation of individual natural language terms to search tokens.

For more information, see Sage Coach.

Using ThoughtSpot Sync you can now sync data directly from an Answer without having to save the answer first.

ThoughtSpot Sync allows you to connect and share complete Liveboards using Microsoft Teams and Slack. Previously only Answers could be shared.

ThoughtSpot introduces custom sorting of attributes to sort all chart types in a way that helps users to consume charts more efficiently. Previously custom sorting could only be applied to an Answer using custom columns and the search bar, and could not be applied to some chart types. You can now sort on any column in a chart, in ascending or descending order, from the column heading menu. To enable this feature, reach out to your administrator.

In this release, custom calendar is enabled by default for all connections, except for the following which don’t support custom calendar:

The following connections are now available to all customers and are on by default:

You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Atlan into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Atlan to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status.

You can now use the dbt public API to perform the following tasks:

If you do not have a valid OAuth access token, you can now directly navigate to the OAuth authorization screen when performing one of the following actions on a connection shared with you:

In accordance with Snowflake’s recent JDBC update, ThoughtSpot does not support Snowflake account names that contain underscores for connections that use Private Link. For more information on how to adjust your account name behavior to avoid this restriction, see Snowflake Private Link.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Atlan. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, this information is visible to all users. To enable the connection to Atlan, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

We made the following improvements to ThoughtSpot mobile:

Personalized views allow you to save your own set of values for filters and parameters in a Liveboard without editing the original Liveboard. You can change the values of the already present filters and parameters in a Liveboard and save it for future use. The new Liveboard is version of the master Liveboard, so any changes made to the master Liveboard are carried over ot the new Liveboard. This includes changes made to pinned visualizations, tabs, filter chips, and re-ordering. Changes made to the new Liveboard are not automatically pushed to the master Liveboard.

Embedding in note tiles is now available to all users and is on by default. You can now embed interactive content such as videos, pdfs, or Figma files into Liveboards using the note tile format. To try it out, enter a Liveboard, select the edit icon, and select Add note from the top bar. You can then click the embed icon and enter the URL or iFrame code for your content. You can interact with the content embedded in a Liveboard like you would with a website.

For more information, see Embedding content with iFrames.

Previously, ThoughtSpot supported the ts_username variable for use in row-level security formulas alone. Now, users can access the following string variables:

ts_orgname, ts_username, and ts_email_domain variables are available to use in Answer and Worksheet formulas.

When creating a filter on a Liveboard or Answer, you must have access to the underlying data source. Users can now request access to the underlying Worksheet through the filter modal on a Liveboard or Answer. For more information, see Liveboard filters.

The new data panel experience is available for all customers in this release, and is enabled by default. In this release, you can now filter data sources by how they are tagged.

For more information, see Start a new search.

You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Atlan into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Atlan to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, metadata information is visible to all users.

For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

Now, you can define a parameter to link to the parameter in SAP Hana using TML at the table level, and create a linked_parameter clause to ensure the parameter is displayed in all Answers created from the table. For more information, see TML for tables and TML for Worksheets.

We now support Key Pair authentication for Snowflake.

We now support OAuth with PKCE for Databricks.

ThoughtSpot introduces role-based access control (RBAC) in Primary Orgs to allow for more granular access privileges. Use roles to apply privileges customized for your organizational needs.

To enable RBAC, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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When running change analysis, you can now see additional insights. For example, ThoughtSpot will detect values that underwent the highest percentage change between the two data points defined in your analysis, and values whose share of the total changed the most. The additional insights appear below the main analysis in the change analysis pop-up window.

You can now embed interactive content such as videos, pdfs, or Figma files into Liveboards using the note tile format. To try it out, enter a Liveboard, select the edit icon, and select Add note from the top bar. You can then click the embed icon and enter the URL or iFrame code for your content. You can interact with the content embedded in a Liveboard like you would with a website. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Embedding in note tiles.

You can now see the state of query execution for any Liveboard visualization while it loads. If a visualization takes longer than three seconds to load, ThoughtSpot displays the current query execution status (executing query, waiting for connection, or processing query) to help users identify the reason for the delay.

Alation metadata is now available to all users and on by default. Users can now see metadata information on tables and columns imported from Alation. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, metadata information is visible to all users. For more information, see Catalog integration.

You can now hide a column from your table without removing it from your current Search. If you hide the column you’re using to sort results, the sorting order is unchanged. To try it out, create an Answer, open the Edit chart configuration menu , and drag the selected column to Hidden Columns.

You can now add or reply to comments, tag other users, or subscribe to comment threads directly on a Liveboard. Users can point out insights or reach out for clarification without leaving ThoughtSpot. To try it out, click the comment icon to the right of the edit icon, and select the data point you would like to comment on. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Comment on a Liveboard.

Beginning in 9.6.0.cl, ThoughtSpot generates insight narratives in natural language to summarize the data analyzed in SpotIQ. The narratives are generated by LLM, and appear above the charts created by SpotIQ. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Natural language narratives.

We made the following enhancements to verified Liveboards:

ThoughtSpot Connected Slides is an add-on that allows you to insert charts and live data visualizations right into your Google Slides™ presentation. Just connect to ThoughtSpot, find a chart or visualization, and add it to your slide presentation.

For more information, see ThoughtSpot Connected Slides.

Alation catalog integration is now available to all users and on by default. You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Alation into ThoughtSpot. From the Data governance section of the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Alation to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status.

For more information, see Catalog integration.

ThoughtSpot introduces role-based access control (RBAC) in Primary Orgs to allow for more granular access privileges. Use roles to apply privileges customized for your organizational needs.

To enable RBAC, contact ThoughtSpot support.

Admin users can now see indexing statistics for their cluster using the Index Statistics Liveboard. You can filter the results by connection, table, and column, and see the breakdown of indexed search tokens in the visualizations. This Liveboard helps you see how many search tokens you are using, and can help you diagnose indexing issues and errors. To try it out, go to Liveboards and search for Index statistics.

For more information, see Index Statistics Liveboard.

In the past, ThoughtSpot generated a new Worksheet every time a user edited an existing dbt data model. Now, ThoughtSpot maintains a persistent connection with dbt and provides realtime updates. Users can update an object, update an object and create a new object, or simply create a new object.

For more information, see Integrate with dbt.

Previously, when a Worksheet was created from a dbt model, the default worksheet join rule was "apply all joins". Now, "apply joins progressively" is the default. This means that when you search on a Worksheet, joins are applied as each search term is added, rather than applying all joins to every search.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to Amazon Athena. For more information, see Amazon Athena.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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We made the following enhancements to natural language search:

We made the following enhancements to pivot table charts:

Date picker is now GA and on by default. We added support for rolling, fixed, and custom date filters when creating an Answer or filtering a Liveboard. Previously, when adding a date filter to a Search, ThoughtSpot supported the conditions ON (=), ON OR AFTER (>=), BEFORE (<), and BETWEEN. Now, you can additionally filter for ON OR BEFORE (<=), NOT BETWEEN, ON LAST, and ON NEXT. To try it out, click the filter icon next to the Date column in the left side menu, or click the date filter below the Answer or Liveboard title.

For more information, see Date filters for Answers and Liveboards.

The new data panel experience is GA in this release. This is part of the Data Fluency feature.

Admin-assigned verifiers can now mark Liveboards as verified. Users can now request these verifiers to review their Liveboards, and verify if the information displayed is trusted content. Verified Liveboards carry a tag that signifies that they have been audited for correctness. For more information, see Verified Liveboards.

You can now edit the display name of filters on Liveboards to better represent your data. To try it out, click the Edit icon on a Liveboard, click the filter you want to rename, select Filter options.

When you create bar and column charts and slice by color, ThoughtSpot automatically enables gridlines to make the chart easier to read. You can choose to disable gridlines under the chart configuration menu.

You can now see notifications for threshold and anomaly alerts in the ThoughtSpot notification service, rather than receiving emails.

We made the following enhancements to ThoughtSpot Mobile:

ThoughtSpot introduces role-based access control (RBAC) to allow for more granular access privileges. Use roles to apply privileges customized for your organizational needs.

ThoughtSpot includes some standard roles to help existing customers transition to RBAC. To enable RBAC, contact ThoughtSpot support.

See Understand RBAC and privileges.

Set your ThoughtSpot locale to English (Germany). ThoughtSpot changes your data format settings, such as currency and number formatting, and translates keywords, ThoughtSpot menu and navigation items, operators, and error messages. To try it out, navigate to your profile, and edit your system language. For more information, see Change language and data format settings.

ThoughtSpot Connected Sheets is an add-on for Google Sheets that allows you to connect to a ThoughtSpot instance, pull data directly into a Google Sheet from trusted data sources connected to that instance (like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, DataBricks, and others), and use the tools in Google Sheets for ad-hoc analysis. See ThoughtSpot Connected Sheets.

In a shared cluster for Essentials and Pro edition, an Org admin can now see the following Org-specific Liveboards:

You can create webhooks to initiate workflows in third-party applications based on KPI changes, or send KPI alert notifications to custom channels. For example, if you are monitoring a "current inventory" KPI for an inventory management use case, you can build a workflow to trigger an order placement in a third-party app when your current inventory drops below a particular threshold value. Webhooks for Monitor is in beta and off by default. To enable it, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Webhooks for Monitor.

You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Alation into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Alation to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, metadata information is visible to all users. For more information, see Catalog integration.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to SingleStore. For more information, see Connect to SingleStore.

Redshift now supports external OAuth through Microsoft Azure AD. See Configure Azure AD external OAuth for a Redshift connection.

When creating a Liveboard, you can now designate attribute filters as single-select, in addition to multi-select. For example, you could choose to make a Country filter single-select, so users would only see data related to one country at a time.

In this release, the Fivetran connection to SpotApp is GA. Fivetran helps you move data from applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira and others into a cloud data warehouse to make it easier for you to use the SpotApps designed for those applications.

In this release, there is a new ServiceNow Incident Management SpotApp which allows you to use your ServiceNow data stored in Snowflake. If you use the ServiceNow Snowflake connector to move your data from ServiceNow to Snowflake, use this SpotApp to track the number of tickets submitted, and understand the efficiency of how those tickets are resolved.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

August 2023 9.4.0.cl

We made the following changes to the natural language search feature:

Sage features are disabled by default and available for administrators to enable in the Admin Console.

Once enabled, your ThoughtSpot administrator can grant access to the Natural language search and AI-suggested searches features for users in a group by assigning the Can preview ThoughtSpot Sage user privilege to the group. You do not need this privilege to access AI-generated Worksheet column synonyms.

For more information about ThoughtSpot Sage, see ThoughtSpot Sage.

Contextual change analysis is now GA and on by default. You can now identify the key change drivers for changes in your metrics in a KPI chart. Select the percent change label or select any two data points on the KPI sparkline to view change analysis on your top 5 columns by usage-based ranking (UBR) and identify the reason behind the observed change. You can view the changes in other columns by clicking Customize attributes and selecting the desired column(s).

For more information, see Contextual change analysis.

You can now create custom groups, which can be used to classify values in a list you can then reuse across multiple analyses. As an example, you can use custom groups to search for which products are most popular, and define them by sales volume as "gold", "silver", or "bronze" level products. Custom groups are community objects which remain when you navigate away from the Search Data page and can be viewed by any user with view access to the underlying Worksheet.

For more information, see Custom groups.

You now receive in-app notifications when items are shared with you, or when other users request access to an Answer or Liveboard. To view these notifications, simply click on the user profile icon. For more information, see Web notifications.

Admin-assigned verifiers can now mark Liveboards as verified. Users can now request these verifiers to review their Liveboards, and verify if the information displayed is trusted content. Verified Liveboards carry a tag that signifies that they have been audited for correctness. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support. For more information, see Verified Liveboards.

ThoughtSpot now supports the following enhancements for geomap visualizations:

To enable these features, the Geo config property in the underlying Worksheet must be set to Auto select. All Worksheets created after 9.4.0.cl GA classify geographical data as Auto select by default.

For more information, see Geo chart enhancements.

We added support for rolling, fixed, and custom date filters when creating an Answer or filtering a Liveboard. Previously, when adding a date filter to a Search, ThoughtSpot supported the conditions ON (=), ON OR AFTER (>=), BEFORE (<), and BETWEEN. Now, you can additionally filter for ON OR BEFORE (<=), NOT BETWEEN, ON LAST, and ON NEXT. To try it out, click the filter icon next to the Date column in the left side menu, or click the date filter below the Answer or Liveboard title. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Date filters for Answers and Liveboards.

ThoughtSpot is deprecating the pin Headline to Liveboard feature. Beginning in the 9.4.0.cl Cloud release, users will no longer see the pin icon when they hover over table summaries. To visualize and pin single aggregated measures, attributes in string/date format, or time-series metrics with sparklines, you must create KPI charts. Existing Headlines pinned to Liveboards will not be affected in this release. For more information, see How to convert Headlines to KPI charts.

When new users receive a Share link and view the shared object in ThoughtSpot, they can now click the Keep exploring button to be directed to onboarding.

We have improved the responsiveness of Liveboards. For windows between 1024 pixels and 500 pixels, the Liveboard columns respond to re-sizing. For windows smaller than 500 pixels in width, a horizontal scroll bar appears.

We now display Liveboard tabs in the ThoughtSpot Mobile app. To create a Liveboard tab, you must access ThoughtSpot in a browser.

In this release, worksheet formulas can now be indexed by setting Suggest values in search to Yes for the formula.

ThoughtSpot admins now have more control for enabling the new data panel experience for users. In this release, admins can now make the new answer data panel experience default for all users of a cluster, by going to Admin > Search & SpotIQ and setting the Make new answer data panel experience default to Enabled.

We introduced a Liveboard to answer the following questions:

Admin users can access the Indexing Queries Liveboard by searching the Liveboards tab, and use the results to improve indexing queries performance. For more information, see Indexing Queries Liveboard.

The Snowflake Query Profile SpotApp is now available. Use this SpotApp to analyze Snowflake query data to understand execution time better and pinpoint key areas for query optimization.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to:

If you run into an error while creating a connection, you can now click View details to see error details and add a comment for your administrator.

We are introducing the ability to specify the case of a table column (for example, upper, lower, or mixed). Previously, SQL generated by ThoughtSpot was always wrapped in a LOWER function with no configuration options. Now, users will be able to define whether columns in tables are mixed case or lower case. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

ThoughtSpot Cloud now supports the London region when you connect using AWS. See ThoughtSpot Cloud requirements and support.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

June 2023 9.3.0.cl

In this release, ThoughtSpot Sage features are available for administrators to enable, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. ThoughtSpot Sage makes it easier for you to get answers and insights from your complex data. ThoughtSpot Sage uses a combination of GPT-3, GPT-3.5T and GPT-4, and the large language models (LLM) of the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.

Sage features include:

Sage features are disabled by default and available for administrators to enable in the Admin Console.

Once enabled, your ThoughtSpot administrator can grant access to the Natural language search and AI-suggested searches features for users in a group by assigning the Can preview ThoughtSpot Sage user privilege to the group. You do not need this privilege to access AI-generated Worksheet column synonyms. For more information about ThoughtSpot Sage, see ThoughtSpot Sage.

You can now search using natural language to access AI-generated answers to your business questions. This feature is now available for administrators to enable, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. To try it out, navigate to the Home page, select the search bar labeled Ask any business question you have and type your question. When you enter your question, you will see the AI-generated answer appear, along with a list of related Answers created by users in your team. For more information, see Natural language search.

You can select the Worksheet to search on by clicking the Worksheet title in the left side of the search bar and selecting a new Worksheet from the dropdown. Worksheets with AI answers enabled display a triangular icon to the left of the Worksheet name: . See Enable or disable AI-generated Answers.

This feature must be enabled by your administrator.

The AI-suggested searches feature is now available for administrators to enable, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. This feature helps you think of relevant questions to ask of your own data source, by providing examples of searches. This feature is designed to help you get started if you are a new user of Search Data, or if you are working with a new Worksheet. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see AI-suggested searches.

Liveboard cross filters are now GA. Right-click any data point in your Liveboard and easily filter the entire Liveboard by that value. For example, if you right-click California in a geo chart on your Liveboard, and then select Filter, all the other visualizations only show data from California. A visualization for Total sales by city, for example, would only show sales for cities in California. This feature is also called brushing and linking. To try it out, select any data point(s) in a Liveboard visualization, and select Filter from the menu that appears. For more information, see Liveboard cross filters.

The Liveboard note tiles feature is now GA. Add notes to your Liveboards, so that viewers of your Liveboards can quickly understand how to use the data and visualizations you gathered. Note tiles can provide an overview of a Liveboard or visualization, company branding through images, definitions of terms used in the Liveboard, and so on. With the GA of the note tiles feature, you don’t need a specific privilege to upload images. To try it out, edit a Liveboard, and select Add note. For more information, see Liveboard note tiles.

You can now identify the key change drivers for changes in your metrics in a KPI chart. This feature is now available for administrators to enable, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. Select the percent change label or select any two data points on the KPI sparkline to view change analysis on your top 5 columns by usage-based ranking (UBR) and identify the reason behind the observed change. You can view the changes in other columns by clicking Manage attributes and selecting the desired column(s). This feature must be enabled by your administrator.

For more information, see Contextual change analysis.

You can now include attributes in the pivot table cells as well as measures. This is useful for cases when you want to summarize text data such as user role, pass/fail, or other attributes. For more information, see Pivot table charts.

Arrange Answer filters in the filter bar so that they are in a logical, coherent order, by dragging and dropping them to different spots in the list. This makes it easier for viewers of the Answer to understand and use the filters on the Answer. To try it out, open any Answer, and drag and drop the filters in the filter bar. For more information, see Change the filter order.

To enable business users to answer questions related to mix, contribution, share of, percentage, and total ratios, we added the keywords "of" and "percentage of". These keywords help answer questions such as "What is the share of a certain store’s sales as a percentage of the regional whole?" Previously, searches such as these required the use of a group aggregate formula, which presented a barrier to users. To try out this feature, enter a search phrase in the search bar containing the keyword, such as sales percentage of store region, and press Go.

For more information, see Keywords: Of and Percentage of. This feature is off by default. To enable it, contact ThoughtSpot support.

When you scroll down in a Liveboard, the Liveboard name, menu options, and filter and tab bars remain visible. You don’t need to scroll back up to the top to edit the Liveboard or check your filters. You can see the filters or parameters applied to the Liveboard, select the Edit button or more options menu, and view which tab you’re on from any spot in the Liveboard. To try it out, open any Liveboard, and scroll down.

You can now configure the legend position in a chart, or hide the legend. The available options are left, right, above, and below the visualization. To try it out, open the chart configuration menu, select Settings, and choose between Legend on right, Legend on left, Legend on top, and Legend on bottom. You can select the Show legend toggle to hide or show the legend. See Changing charts.

ThoughtSpot Cloud will be available on Google Cloud Platform in addition to AWS. Customers can choose whether they want their SaaS deployed on AWS or GCP.

ThoughtSpot on GCP can be purchased directly from ThoughtSpot but will also be available to purchase in the Google Cloud Marketplace, the BigQuery Partner Center, and Google Workspace Marketplace. Customers can also use their committed spend and credits on Google Marketplace to purchase ThoughtSpot. If you want to migrate to GCP, contact ThoughtSpot support.

When you create a Worksheet, ThoughtSpot automatically creates synonyms for each column name. This feature is now available for administrators to enable, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. Users can easily start searching on your data, without knowing the exact names for every column. For example, if you have a column named Product type, ThoughtSpot might create a synonym such as Product Category. When a user searches for revenue by product category, for example, ThoughtSpot returns sales by product type. To try it out, create and save a new Worksheet. Your column name synonyms appear in the Synonyms column on the Worksheet details page. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Create synonyms for a column.

This release includes the following improvements to the dbt integration:

To try it out, select Data in the top navigation bar, then select dbt in the side navigation bar. For more information, see Editing a dbt project.

You can now connect to and query Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases using the PostgreSQL connector. For details, see PostgreSQL.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to MySQL. For details, see MySQL.

Previously, when multiple database connections were configured to receive CSV uploads without a specified table or worksheet for collocation, the files were randomly uploaded to one of the connections. With this new enhancement, administrators and data managers now have the ability to specify a default target connection for such uploads.

To set the default target connection, navigate to Data > Connections, click the More menu icon , select Configure data upload, and click the Enable data upload toggle to on. Next, select the Set as default CSV upload destination toggle. By specifying a default connection, you ensure that CSV files without a designated destination will be uploaded to the chosen connection. This enhancement provides better control and organization of CSV uploads, making it easier to manage data in scenarios where end-users do not select a collocation for their uploaded files.

Admin users will be able to access a Liveboard reflecting the pricing model purchased and associated with their cluster. Query-based pricing customers see the Billable Query Stats Liveboard, while time-based pricing customers see the Credit Usage Liveboard.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

May 2023 9.2.0.cl

In this release we introduce our new AI-powered search experience called ThoughtSpot Sage, which makes it easier for you to get answers and insights from your complex data. ThoughtSpot Sage uses a combination of GPT-3, GPT-3.5T and GPT-4, and the large language models (LLM) of the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.

Sage features include:

Sage features are disabled by default and available for select customers to try before they reach GA, when they are enabled by default. To enable ThoughtSpot Sage features, you must contact ThoughtSpot Support.

Once enabled, your ThoughtSpot administrator can grant access to the Natural language search and AI-suggested searches features for users in a group by assigning the Can preview ThoughtSpot Sage user privilege to the group. For more information about ThoughtSpot Sage, see ThoughtSpot Sage.

You can now search using natural language to access AI-generated answers to your business questions. To try it out, navigate to the Home page, select the search bar labeled Ask any business question you have and type your question. When you enter your question, you will see the AI-generated answer appear, along with a list of related Answers created by users in your team. For more information, see Natural language search.

You can select the Worksheet to search on by clicking the Worksheet title in the left side of the search bar and selecting a new Worksheet from the dropdown. Worksheets with AI answers enabled display a triangular icon to the left of the Worksheet name: . See Enable or disable AI-generated Answers.

This feature must be enabled by ThoughtSpot Support.

The AI-suggested searches feature helps you think of relevant questions to ask of your own data source, by providing examples of searches. This feature is designed to help you get started if you are a new user of Search Data, or if you are working with a new Worksheet. For more information, see AI-suggested searches.

This feature must be enabled by ThoughtSpot Support.

Right-click any data point in your Liveboard and easily filter the entire Liveboard by that value. For example, if you right-click California in a geo chart on your Liveboard, and then select Filter, all the other visualizations only show data from California. A visualization for Total sales by city, for example, would only show sales for cities in California. This feature is also called brushing and linking. To try it out, select any data point(s) in a Liveboard visualization, and select Filter from the menu that appears. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information about cross filters, see Liveboard cross filters.

Add notes to your Liveboards, so that viewers of your Liveboards can quickly understand how to use the data and visualizations you gathered. Note tiles can provide an overview of a Liveboard or visualization, company branding through images, definitions of terms used in the Liveboard, and so on. To try it out, edit a Liveboard, and select Add note. The Liveboard note tiles feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information about note tiles, see Liveboard note tiles.

Mandatory Liveboard filters are now GA. Mark certain filters in your Liveboard as mandatory. If you add mandatory filters to a Liveboard, the visualizations will only load after Liveboard viewers select values for the mandatory filters. Use mandatory filters for Liveboards that contain data that may not be relevant for everyone who must view and consume the Liveboard. Mandatory filters also lower query and performance costs. To try the feature out, select Mandatory filter when adding a filter to a Liveboard. For more information about mandatory filters, see Mandatory Liveboard filters.

You can now set your KPI chart to display a percent change comparison between the most recent data point and a custom comparison point. For example, when searching for sales monthly, you can choose to see percent change between this month and the previous month, previous quarter, or previous year. For more information, see Custom comparison points.

You can now use ThoughtSpot Sync to sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to the following apps:

When scheduling a sync with an external app, you can now choose to schedule every 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, and 45 minutes, in addition to the other existing schedule options.

The Parameters feature is now GA. Any user can now create Parameters at the Answer level to optimize their data inquiries. Analysts can also create Worksheet Parameters that are available to all Worksheet users. Use Parameters to run different scenarios with adjustable values, without creating or modifying the constants in formulas for each new value. For example, easily adjust the attribute in an Answer to view your revenue by commit date or order date, as in the following image. To try it out, navigate to any Answer, search, or Worksheet, and select the + button next to the Parameters section in the left panel. For more information, see Creating Parameters and Using Parameters.

You can now see anomalies in time-series KPI charts. Our new anomaly detection algorithm detects data which does not fall within the expected confidence intervals, while allowing for seasonal changes and growth over time. To try it out, open your KPI chart as an Answer, open the chart configuration menu, and select Show anomalies. For more information, see Anomaly detection.

KPI change analysis is now GA. You can now use change analysis to directly identify the key drivers for change in your KPIs.

To access this feature, go to your KPI chart and select the caret icon to the right of the percent change label. The Run change analysis pop-up allows you to customize the attribute columns ThoughtSpot analyzes to identify the drivers of change. ThoughtSpot runs change analysis for the most recent data point and the past comparison data point as per the KPI chart’s configuration.

For more information on change analysis, see Comparative analysis. Note that you need SpotIQ privileges to use the KPI change analysis feature.

Apply multiple chart changes at once is now GA. Now users can make multiple configurations and apply them at the same time rather than waiting for each configuration to load separately. For more information, see Reorder labels on the axis or legend.

Optionally disable heatmap charts' data labels, and understand the chart quickly by scanning the heatmap colors. This makes complex heatmap charts with many data values easier to read. To try it out, create a heatmap chart, select the edit chart configuration icon , select Settings, and clear the All labels checkbox. For more information, see Heatmap charts.

We streamlined the file format options when downloading tables and charts from ThoughtSpot. You can download tables in XLSX, CSV, or PDF format, and download charts in XLSX, CSV, or PNG format. To try it out, open a chart or table, and select Download from the more options menu . For more information, see Download a chart or table.

Data labels on a dark background are now GA. Labels that appear on a dark background now display in a lighter text color, making them easier to read. To try it out, navigate to Search data and Create a chart > Change the chart color, and Add labels. For more information, see Reorder labels on the axis or legend.

Arrange Liveboard filters in the filter bar so that they are in a logical, coherent order, by dragging and dropping them to different spots in the list. This makes it easier for viewers of the Liveboard to understand and use the filters on the Liveboard. To try it out, edit any Liveboard, and drag and drop the filters in the filter bar. For more information, see Change the filter order.

We improved the syntax of our text keywords, such as begins with and contains, to provide users with more flexibility. For example, the contains keyword now accepts expressions such as product name contains 'shoes' or 'snickers'. See the Keyword reference.

Additionally, if your query includes two or more contains phrases that modify the same column, ThoughtSpot now combines the phrases using or logic, instead of and. If you have existing Answers or visualizations using this and logic, ThoughtSpot will automatically update your queries after you upgrade to 9.2.0.cl, to ensure they return the same information. See the contains keyword.

This release improves the translated French keywords. To try it out, change your ThoughtSpot locale to French, and include keywords in your search. For more information, see Français (France) keyword reference.

Group aggregate filter enhancements are GA. Previously, when using group_aggregate formulas, users could use query_filters to include filters entered in the search bar in the formula’s value, but it was difficult to write a formula that accepted filters from only a single column.

Starting with this release, you can specify column names within the ‘filters’ section of a group_aggregate formula, and any filter in your search bar referencing that column will be added to the formula. Filters entered in the search bar that are not on columns specified in the third argument of the group_aggregate formula will be ignored. For details, see Group aggregation filters.

To reduce confusion when using aggregate formulas, the level of detail defined in group formulas is now respected at query level. For example, when trying to calculate the contribution of each store’s sales to the entire region, you might use a group_sum formula, where the sales at store level is divided by the sales at regional level. Your search would include the following columns: Revenue, Customer nation, Regional Revenue formula, and Customer region, where Regional Revenue formula = group_sum(Revenue, Customer Region).

According to the old reaggregation behavior, if a customer removed Customer region from the search bar, the level of detail in the formula would no longer be respected and the formula’s denominator would re-aggregate up to the total. In this case, the formula result would display revenue as a percentage of total revenue, rather than as a percentage of regional revenue.

Under the new aggregation behavior, the formula result will continue to display revenue as a percentage of each region, even if you remove Customer region from the search bar. Visualizations will also display the correct aggregation even if the grouping column is not added to the X-axis.

For more information, see Flexible aggregation functions.

ThoughtSpot is updating the Liveboard experience for the mobile app. Mobile app users can now view KPI charts in Liveboards.

When using ThoughtSpot Mobile, you can now press the Load More button at the bottom of a table to see the next 100 rows of data.

When scheduling Liveboards, you can now specify your time zone. To try it out, click on the blue text to the right of the Frequency section and select your timezone from the dropdown menu. For more information, see Schedule a Liveboard job.

You can now pull data from a ThoughtSpot instance into Google Sheets using the ThoughtSpot for connected sheets extension from the Google Workspace Marketplace. You can connect to any ThoughtSpot instance, even Free Trial. Once connected, you can select your data by using the search bar or selecting it from the data panel, just like in ThoughtSpot. Once you select your data, you can then pull it into Google Sheets and use the available tools to further analyze your data.

In the Search data page, you now see a short description of your selected data source which helps you understand the kinds of answers you can get from that data source.

Data source information includes the name, description, Liveboards created using the data source (if available), tags or classifications (if available), metadata, and experts (top users).

Column information includes the name, description, synonyms (if available), column type, sample values, Parameters, and more.

All of this information saves you time, by helping you find the right data source for the question you want to ask. For more information, see Start a new search with column and data source overview.

You can now identify the key change drivers for changes in your metrics in a KPI chart. Select the percent change label or select any two data points on the KPI sparkline to view change analysis on your top 5 columns by usage-based ranking (UBR) and identify the reason behind the observed change. You can view the changes in other columns by clicking Manage attributes and selecting the desired column(s). This feature must be enabled by ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see Contextual change analysis.

In the new Notification preferences section of your user profile, you have the option of receiving email notifications when other users share Liveboards or answers with you, and when they request access to Liveboards or answers which you edit. For more information, see Notification preferences.

There are now two ThoughtSpot add-ons for Google Sheets aimed at different audiences:

For details on both add-ons and how you can use them together, see ThoughtSpot Google Sheets add-ons.

When you create a Worksheet, ThoughtSpot automatically creates synonyms for each column name. Users can easily start searching on your data, without knowing the exact names for every column. For example, if you have a column named Product type, ThoughtSpot might create a synonym such as Product Category. When a user searches for revenue by product category, for example, ThoughtSpot returns sales by product type. To try it out, create and save a new Worksheet. Your column name synonyms appear in the Synonyms column on the Worksheet details page. This feature must be enabled by ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Create synonyms for a column.

Cross-Region Disaster Recovery allows ThoughtSpot to recover your ThoughtSpot instance in a secondary cloud region in the case of a failure of the primary cloud region where ThoughtSpot is running. This ensures that if one cloud region fails, ThoughtSpot can start in another region, guaranteeing minimal downtime. For more information, see Data protection and disaster recovery.

Custom geo maps are now GA. Upload your own custom maps and visualize data on geo charts with regions that are specific to you and your organization. To try it out, select Custom maps in the Admin Console. For more information, see Upload custom geo maps.

When creating an alert for a KPI chart, you can now include a custom message in the alert update email. You can use this feature to specify next steps the alert subscribers should take once the KPI reaches a certain threshold.

For data security, you may choose to remove attached files from all scheduled Liveboard emails, so that users need to sign in to view updates in Liveboards they follow. When this feature is enabled, scheduled Liveboard email recipients will receive an email with a link to the Liveboard, which they will need to sign in to see. To ensure that only signed-in users can access your data, contact ThoughtSpot support to enable this option. For more information, see Scheduled Liveboards.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to SQL Server. For details, see SQL Server.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to Generic JDBC databases. For details, see Generic JDBC.

You can now connect to and query Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases.

When creating a sync to HubSpot, you can now use email as a mapping field on the Contacts object type, as well as ContactID.

When creating a connection to Databricks, you can now enter your catalog name under the Catalog field. For more information, see Add a Databricks connection.

By default, scheduled and downloaded Liveboard PDFs now render at a width of 1920 pixels. This ensures that most Liveboard PDFs you download or schedule look the same as the Liveboards you see in ThoughtSpot. You can also change this default width to a different width for your company, by contacting ThoughtSpot support. To try the new default width out, download a PDF of a Liveboard. For more information, see Download a Liveboard as a PDF and Schedule a Liveboard job.

Use the Object Usage Liveboard to easily track how specific objects (Liveboards, Answers, Worksheets, or tables) are trending over time. Our new visualizations allow you to understand adoption on the object level, and filter on a specific user or users to see usage on the user level.

For more information, see Object Usage Liveboard.

TML for Monitor alerts is now GA. Export, edit, and import KPI Monitor alerts programmatically, using ThoughtSpot Modeling Language. To try it out, export a Liveboard that contains Monitor alerts and its associated objects. For more information, see Syntax of the Monitor alert TML file and Monitor KPIs in your data.

Use TML to directly edit a join condition by editing the TML file’s on parameter. This simplifies the previous process of deleting and recreating the join in TML or the ThoughtSpot application. To try it out, edit a TML file, and update a join’s on parameter. For more information, see TML join syntax.

Remove columns from tables in ThoughtSpot by deleting them in the tables' TML files. To try it out, edit a table TML file, and delete a column’s name and properties. We support deleting a column from a TML file and removing that column’s dependencies in the same zip file import. Note that if the deletion of a column fails, the whole import will fail. For more information, see Deleting columns.

We standardized the method of creating joins for all data objects in ThoughtSpot. When creating a join from a view, users are now directed to a Create join page where they can choose a connection, name the join, and map the source and destination columns.

Adjust Parameter values at runtime from Liveboard or Answer URLs, or using REST API v1 requests. To try it out, add the Parameter runtime override syntax to any Liveboard or Answer with an active Parameter. For more information, see Runtime overrides for Parameters and Runtime Parameters.

For any column with a high cardinality, which is defined as more than 100,000 unique column values, ThoughtSpot does not index the column if the index type is DEFAULT. This means the column values do not show up in search suggestions. Previously, this limit was 1 million unique column values. This change improves performance, and reduces index times and memory usage.

If you have existing columns with a cardinality between 100,000 and 1 million, and you use these columns' search suggestions regularly, ThoughtSpot will continue to index these columns. For more information, see High cardinality and performance.

In this release, we introduce Private Preview features. Private Preview features are complete, and available for select customers to try before they reach GA, when they are enabled by default. To try them out, contact ThoughtSpot support to enable these features. Then, administrators can selectively enable or disable this feature set for users and groups, using the Can preview ThoughtSpot Sage user privilege. For more information, see Private Preview features and Understanding privileges. Private Preview features are disabled by default.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

February 2023 9.0.0.cl

You can now use ThoughtSpot Sync to sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to the following apps:

Create Worksheet Parameters to optimize your data inquiries. Use Parameters to run different scenarios with adjustable values, without creating or modifying the constants in formulas for each new value. For example, easily adjust the attribute in an Answer to view your revenue by commit date or order date, as in the following gif. To try it out, edit a Worksheet, and select the + button that appears when you hover over the Parameters section. For more information about Parameters, see Creating Parameters and Using Parameters.

Mark certain filters in your Liveboard as mandatory. If you add mandatory filters to a Liveboard, the visualizations will only load after Liveboard viewers select values for the mandatory filters. Use mandatory filters for Liveboards that contain data that may not be relevant for everyone who must view and consume the Liveboard. Mandatory filters also lower query and performance costs. To try the feature out, select Mandatory filter when adding a filter to a Liveboard. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information about mandatory filters, see Mandatory Liveboard filters.

By default, ThoughtSpot displays measures in columns in pivot tables. With this release, choose whether to display measures in rows or columns in your pivot tables. To try it out, in the chart configuration panel for a pivot table, select Settings > Display measures in rows. For more information, see Reorder your pivot table.

Upload your own custom maps and visualize data on geo charts with regions that are specific to you and your organization. To try it out, select Custom maps in the Admin Console. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information about custom geo maps, see Upload custom geo maps.

Labels that appear on a dark background can be displayed in a lighter text color, making them easier to read. To try it out, navigate to Search data and Create a chart > Change the chart color, and Add labels. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Show data labels.

Set your ThoughtSpot locale to Chinese (Traditional), or 中文 (繁體). ThoughtSpot changes your data format settings, such as currency and number formatting, and translates keywords, ThoughtSpot menu and navigation items, operators, and error messages. To try it out, navigate to your profile, and edit your system language. For more information, see 中文 (繁體) keyword reference and Change language and data format settings.

Change the name or description of a Liveboard or visualization from view mode. The more menu for Liveboards and Liveboard visualizations now includes a Rename option, where you can edit the object name and description. To try it out, navigate to a Liveboard, and select the more menu for a visualization. For more information, see Other Liveboard edits.

When a user drags and drops the fields in the chart configuration panel, the chart reloads. When a user has multiple fields, they need to rearrange a lot of them to reach a desired chart. Now users can make multiple configurations, and apply them all at once, rather than waiting in between each configuration. To try it out, click Apply in the chart configuration panel after editing a chart.

This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Reorder labels on the axis or legend.

Previously, when using group_aggregate formulas, users could use query_filters to include filters entered in the search bar in the formula’s value, but it was difficult to write a formula that accepted filters from only a single column.

Starting with this release, you can specify column names within the ‘filters’ section of a group_aggregate formula, and any filter in your search bar referencing that column will be added to the formula. Filters entered in the search bar that are not on columns specified in the third argument of the group_aggregate formula will be ignored. For details, see Group aggregation filters.

Snowflake CSV upload is GA in this release. Now you have a quick and easy way to complete one-time data loads of small files that are not present in your cloud data warehouse. You can now upload a CSV file to the database of your Snowflake connection that can be joined to other tables or Worksheets in your connection. Once your administrator enables this feature, go to Data > Utilities, and click Upload CSV. See Configure CSV upload for your Snowflake connection, and Upload a CSV file in your Snowflake connection.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to PostgreSQL. For details, see PostgreSQL.

You can now share connections with other users or groups. Once granted access to a connection, users can add, remove, and modify tables in that connection. To try it out, go to Data > Connections and click the Share connection button. For more information, see Share connections.

Manage your ThoughtSpot table and Worksheet column properties and table joins in dbt by using metadata tags to define column properties and joins within your dbt model schema. Your dbt models contain all the necessary information, and you don’t have to manually update the columns in ThoughtSpot when you make changes to your dbt model. To try it out, update the .yml schema files for your dbt models with the new metadata tags. For more information, see Metadata tags for dbt.

Redshift Partner Connect allows you to try out ThoughtSpot connected to Redshift for free. For details, see ThoughtSpot in Redshift Partner Connect.

Export, edit, and import KPI Monitor alerts programmatically, using ThoughtSpot Modeling Language. To try it out, export a Liveboard that contains Monitor alerts and its associated objects. For more information, see Syntax of the Monitor alert TML file and Monitor KPIs in your data.

To reduce ambiguity when exporting TML files, you can export the fully qualified names (FQNs) for the objects' data sources. If you select this option, the TML file contains FQNs for the underlying tables and connections. To try it out, select Export FQNs of referenced objects when exporting TML files. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Modeling Language.

When you edit and import table TML files, ThoughtSpot now supports deletion of joins at the table level and row-level security (RLS) rules. To try it out, delete the lines in a TML file that contain RLS rules or joins, and import the object. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Modeling Language.

Delete or make a copy of Worksheets and Views from an object’s details page. To try it out, open any Worksheet or View, and select the more menu . For more information, see Make a copy of a Worksheet and Make a copy of a SQL-based View.

Administrators can see the available Early Access features and selectively enable or disable them for all users. To try it out, go to the Admin tab and select Early Access features. For more information, see Enable Early Access features. Early Access features are new in this release. For more information about them, see ThoughtSpot Cloud release life cycle. Early Access features are disabled by default.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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ThoughtSpot Sync schedules are now GA and on by default. When creating a sync from ThoughtSpot to an external business app (Google Sheets, Microsoft Teams, Slack), you can now schedule the sync to repeat on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. To try it out, create a sync and select Schedule your sync.

ThoughtSpot Sync for Salesforce is now GA and on by default. You can now sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to Salesforce. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can push insights directly to Salesforce, notify your teams, and view data in context. ThoughtSpot Sync automatically establishes a secure pipeline to the destination app and thus eliminates the need for building custom connectors.

This release introduces ThoughtSpot’s multi-tenancy feature. Partition your ThoughtSpot Cloud instance into multiple completely separate environments called Orgs. Creating Orgs keeps user and object information in different Orgs completely isolated. For more information, see Multi-tenancy with Orgs.

Admins can view, edit or delete Monitor alerts even if they are not the creator or subscriber of those alerts. For more information, see Permissions.

The DEI Workforce Diversity SpotApp is now available. Use this SpotApp to get invaluable insight into your workforce diversity data from your HR application.

ThoughtSpot now supports multiple AWS PrivateLinks in your environment. If you have data in multiple cloud data warehouses that need an additional layer of security and network reliability, you can set up an AWS PrivateLink between each CDW, for a maximum of five PrivateLinks. For more information, see Enabling an AWS PrivateLink between ThoughtSpot Cloud and your cloud data warehouse.

Previously, when deleting tables from Connections, ThoughtSpot did not delete the table’s metadata completely. Starting in 8.10.0.cl, tables deleted through the ThoughtSpot UI disappear completely from your cluster.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

November 2022 8.9.0.cl

Custom tile sizes for visualizations within Liveboards are now GA. Make your Liveboard layout your own by customizing your Liveboard visualizations to be any size, instead of just 5 predetermined sizes. For more information, see Edit the layout of a Liveboard.

You can now sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to Salesforce. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can push insights directly to Salesforce, notify your teams, and view data in context. ThoughtSpot Sync automatically establishes a secure pipeline to the destination app and thus eliminates the need for building custom connectors.

For more information, see Sync data to Salesforce.

Discoverable Answers and Liveboards are now GA and on by default. You can now easily and immediately make content available to your team members. Use the Make this [answer | Liveboard] discoverable checkbox that appears when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard to grant view access to your teammates. Teammates can then view your Answer or Liveboard in the list of relevant results when they use Search Answers, and see your content on their home page once viewed.

For more information, see Share Answers and Share Liveboards.

You can now edit your display name by clicking the profile icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and clicking on the Edit button next to Name. For more information, see Edit display name.

This release introduces ThoughtSpot for Sheets, an entirely new web plug-in that brings modern, true self-service analytics directly to your data in Google Sheets — for free. Simply download the extension here, launch it in any of your Google Sheets spreadsheets, and start analyzing your data. For more information, see the Getting started with ThoughtSpot for Sheets video.

This release includes the following updates to the tags feature in the Data workspace:

For more information, see Apply a tag and Create a tag.

ThoughtSpot now supports High Availability through deployment spanning multiple AWS Availability Zones. This ensures that the ThoughtSpot Cloud application experiences near-zero downtime in the case of Availability Zone (AZ) failures. To learn how to enable High Availability in your environment, see High Availability and resilience.

With query banding, Teradata connections now support the trust SQL feature in Teradata. This provides additional permissions to a ThoughtSpot user for accessing specific tables in Teradata to execute queries. The user must be configured as an application proxy user in Teradata. Query banding also allows tracking of statistics for queries executed by a user. Refer to Add a Teradata connection.

The following SpotApps are now available:

In this release, ThoughtSpot officially certifies and provides support for Microsoft SQL Server used with Synapse connections.

The Query Stats Liveboard allows administrators of customers who have signed up for a query-based usage subscription, to track the number of queries generated by their users. To view the Query Stats Liveboard, go to Liveboards and select Query Stats Liveboard. Query-based usage is part of consumption-based pricing. For more information, see Query Stats Liveboard.

Liveboard ThoughtSpot Modeling Language (TML) files now contain distinct GUIDs for each visualization in the Liveboard by default. This ensures that the GUID for the visualization stays the same after you import or export it. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Modeling Language.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

October 2022 8.8.0.cl NOTE: Features marked as Beta are off by default. To enable them, contact ThoughtSpot support.

When creating a sync from ThoughtSpot to an external business app (Google Sheets, Microsoft Teams, Slack), you can now schedule the sync to repeat on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. To try it out, create a sync and select Schedule your sync. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Sync.

This release introduces custom tile sizes for visualizations within Liveboards. In addition to the 5 predetermined visualization sizes, you can now customize your Liveboard visualizations to be any size. For more information, see Edit the layout of a Liveboard.

You can now use SpotIQ analysis to directly identify the key drivers for recent change in your KPIs. KPI change analysis allows you to drill down into the causes of change in your KPIs and customize the insights generated by SpotIQ.

To access this feature, go to your KPI chart and select the caret icon to the right of the percent change label. The Run change analysis pop-up allows you to customize the columns ThoughtSpot analyzes. Note that ThoughtSpot runs change analysis between the two most recent data points defined by the KPI’s time bucket (for example, daily or weekly).

For more information on change analysis, see Comparative analysis.

The formula editor assistant now contains a search bar for formula functions. Use it to search for specific functions to include in your formula. For more information, see Add a formula to a search.

You can now apply and edit tags on Liveboards and Answers directly from the Home page, as well as from the Answers and Liveboards tabs. To try it out, select the checkbox next to the name(s) of the Answer(s) or Liveboard(s) you would like to tag. For more information, see Home page.

We have made the following improvements to the Show underlying data feature:

The new year_name formula function returns the year in string format for a given date. This improves the behavior of formulas involving years when using a custom calendar with year values that are not in integer format. For more information, see the Formula function reference.

We changed the default behavior for table aggregation summaries when the search contains a formulas that contain both a conditional clause (if…​ then…​ else) and a group_aggregate expression. When a user searches with a formula containing both a conditional clause and a group_aggregate expression, then ThoughtSpot detects the aggregation type on the first non-constant output clause and uses it in the headline summary. In this context, a non-constant output clause means any base column reference (for example, Revenue), or formula (for example, sum(revenue)).

For example, in the formula group_aggregate(sum(if (Color = 'blue') then 0 else group_unique_count(Discount))), the headline summary would use COUNT_DISTINCT, since the first non-constant output clause within the if…​ then…​ else clause is group_unique_count and has an aggregation type of COUNT_DISTINCT.

For more information, see Table aggregate summary.

This release improves the translated German keywords. For more information, see Deutsch keyword reference.

Starburst connections now support Azure AD OAuth. For details, see Azure AD OAuth for Starburst.

You can now delete a join from the ThoughtSpot UI even if the join has dependents. This allows you to delete a join and create it again in the other direction, without invalidating or deleting any dependent objects.

The following SpotApps are now available:

This release supports integration with dbt for the following 2 new cloud data warehouses:

For more information, see dbt integration.

ThoughtSpot now supports secure access from ThoughtSpot Cloud to your data in ThoughtSpot’s supported cloud data warehouses, through your IPSec VPN server. For more information, see Configure IPSec VPN for your cloud data warehouse connection.

ThoughtSpot now securely stores your consumption data in a searchable Snowflake data store. For more information, see Consumption data storage.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

September 2022 8.7.0.cl

Threshold-based alerts are now GA and on by default. You can now use the Monitor feature to receive alerts when your KPI satisfies a given threshold condition. For example, create a condition to receive an alert when your Sales KPI becomes greater than 200,000, or when your KPI for Sales weekly increases by 2%. For more information, see Create a threshold-based alert.

ThoughtSpot now supports separating Liveboards into multiple tabs. This allows you to group specific visualizations together within a single Liveboard. For example, you may have a Sales Liveboard that contains top-level KPIs and more detailed charts. You can create a tab for the top-level KPIs for executives to view, and a tab for the more detailed charts that managers need to monitor. For more information, see Liveboard tabs.

You can now sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to an external business app like Google Sheets, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can push insights directly to your app, notify your teams, and view data in context. ThoughtSpot Sync automatically establishes a secure pipeline to the destination app and thus eliminates the need for building custom connectors to external apps. For more information, see Sync data from ThoughtSpot to external apps.

This release includes several enhancements to all geo charts:

You can now customize the colors used for heatmap and treemap charts. You can select any color in your color palette. For more information, see Heatmap charts and Treemap charts.

ThoughtSpot now supports multiple contains, begins_with, and ends_with phrases in vs queries. For example, you can now have a versus query such as state name begins_with 'a' state name begins_with 'c' vs state name begins_with 'd'.

For more information, see the Keyword reference.

Now you have a quick and easy way to complete one-time data loads of small files that are not present in your cloud data warehouse. You can now upload a CSV file to the database of your Snowflake connection that can be joined to other tables or Worksheets in your connection. Once your administrator enables this feature, go to Data > Utilities, and click Upload CSV. See Configure CSV upload for your Snowflake connection, and Upload a CSV file in your Snowflake connection.

Denodo connections now support OAuth. For details, see Configure OAuth for a Denodo connection.

This release brings improvements in how ThoughtSpot handles user tokens for Snowflake connections configured with Snowflake OAuth. If a user’s refresh token becomes invalid, the administrator or author of the connection can now run the Invalidate Tokens command to allow the user to re-authenticate and regain access to the insights provided by the connection, and the connection itself. Also, in this release the Role field has been added to the Snowflake OAuth connection details page, allowing a role to be added when the connection is created and changed when a connection is edited. see Invalidating refresh tokens of a Snowflake connection.

In this release, ThoughtSpot switches to a new, industry-standard cloud identity and access management method through Okta. This switch involves several external improvements to authentication:

For a general overview, see Identity and Access Management V2.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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The new Liveboard experience is now GA and on by default. It contains new features and enhancements, including Edit mode, HTML in Liveboard titles and descriptions, and improved filtering.

To try it out, navigate to any Liveboard. For more information, See New Liveboard experience.

You can now use the Monitor feature to receive alerts when your KPI satisfies a given threshold condition. For example, create a condition to receive an alert when your Sales KPI becomes greater than 200,000, or when your KPI for Sales weekly increases by 2%. For more information, see Create a threshold-based alert.

You can now delete Answers and Liveboards directly from the list on the home page, as well as from the Answers and Liveboards tabs. To delete an Answer or Liveboard from the home page, scroll down the list or search tags and author name to select the object name. After clicking the checkbox to the left of the object name, click the Delete button that appears.

For more information, see Home page.

You can no longer select more than 100 data sources to search on when searching data. This maximum of 100 sources improves performance and limits timeouts due to the selection of too many sources. For more information, see Choose a data source.

You can now import TML files that contain certain errors. During the import process, ThoughtSpot removes the part of the object that contains errors, and allows you to import the rest of the object. For more information, see Scriptability.

You can now edit tags for tables, Worksheets, views, and SQL views from the Data workspace home page. Simply click on the checkbox next to any object in the Data workspace object list, and select Edit tags. For more information, see Use tags to organize.

This release includes the following improvements to the dbt integration:

For more information, see Integrate with dbt.

ThoughtSpot now supports AWS PrivateLink for Denodo connections. ThoughtSpot encrypts all your data by default. For an additional layer of security and network reliability, you can use an AWS PrivateLink. For more information, see Enabling an AWS PrivateLink between ThoughtSpot Cloud and your Denodo data warehouse.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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You can now make content easily available to your team members when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard. Use the Make this [answer | Liveboard] discoverable checkbox that appears when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard to grant view access to your teammates. Any user who has access to the underlying data source (Worksheet, table, view) and is part of the same user group as the author of the content, will be able to discover and access the Answer or Liveboard in Search Answers.
Select this checkbox to publish your content in the list of relevant results when a teammate uses the Search Answers feature, or deselect to keep your content private.

When you download a table in XLSX format, the downloaded table now shows the same column width and date formatting as the table in ThoughtSpot. For more information, see Download your search.

The Edit button for Liveboards in the new Liveboard experience is now more discoverable. We moved it out of the more menu and into the main Liveboard menu. It is now at the upper right of the Liveboard . For more information, see New Liveboard experience.

SpotApps are now GA and on by default. SpotApps are ThoughtSpot’s new out-of-the-box solution templates built for specific use cases and data sources. They are built on ThoughtSpot Modeling Language (TML) Blocks, which are pre-built pieces of code that are easy to download and implement directly from the product.

SpotApps mimic the data models of the applications they are based on, such as ServiceNow or Jira. After you connect to your data in your cloud data warehouse, ThoughtSpot maps that data to SpotApp columns, and creates pre-built but still customizable Worksheets, Answers, and Liveboards, based on your data.

The following SpotApps are now available:

The new Data workspace is now GA and on by default. It redesigns the Data section of the product. To access it, select Data from the top navigation bar. The redesign introduces several new features, such as SQL-based views, dbt integration, and SpotApps, and makes the UI more intuitive. For more information, see Data workspace.

The dbt integration is now GA and on by default. With the new dbt integration, you provide your existing dbt models and ThoughtSpot automatically creates Worksheets you can use to query your data. Integration with dbt is certified only for Snowflake connections. To try it out, navigate to the Data tab, and select Utilities. Select dbt Integration. For more information, see dbt integration.

SQL-based views are now GA and on by default. You can now create a view based on a custom SQL query, and use that view as a data source. To try it out, select Data from the top navigation bar. Then select + Create new > Custom SQL View. For more information, see SQL views.

ThoughtSpot now supports session-level ranking of Date columns in Search. For example, when you add a date column such as promotion date to your Search, then the promotion date column rises to the top of Search completion suggestions for the duration of your session.

Databricks Partner Connect allows you to try out ThoughtSpot connected to Databricks for free. For details, see ThoughtSpot in Databricks Partner Connect.

You can now use Okta as your authorization server for external OAuth. For details, see Configure Okta OAuth for a Snowflake connection.

Starburst connections now support OAuth. For details, see Configure OAuth for a Starburst connection.

ThoughtSpot now supports querying external tables in data stores, after you create these tables in your Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, or Snowflake environments. For more information, see Query external tables from your connection.

ThoughtSpot now supports AWS PrivateLink for several new data warehouse connections. ThoughtSpot encrypts all your data by default. For an additional layer of security and network reliability, you can use an AWS PrivateLink. This option is now available for the following new data warehouse connections: Databricks, Dremio, Oracle, SAP HANA, Starburst, and Teradata. For more information, see Enabling an AWS PrivateLink between ThoughtSpot Cloud and your cloud data warehouse.

ThoughtSpot now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) Group Sync.

To configure OIDC, refer to OpenID Connect authentication.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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We now support more detailed geographic maps for France. You can now create maps based on postal codes, as well as region and city name. See See Geo map reference.

When you download a table in XLSX format, the downloaded table now shows the same conditional and number formatting as the table in ThoughtSpot. See Download your search.

Users with admin privileges can now add a standard footer to all Liveboard and Answer downloads. Use this functionality to add a confidentiality disclaimer, for example.

To try it out, select Admin from the top navigation bar. Select Search & SpotIQ from the side navigation bar that appears, and scroll down to Visualization. See Managing search & SpotIQ settings.

This release introduces several new SpotApps that you can use to analyze your company data from external applications. Set up these SpotApps to provide your users with pre-built, customizable Worksheets, Answers, and Liveboards for the following applications:

To access these new SpotApps, ensure that the feature is turned on in your environment and navigate to Data > SpotApps.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

May 2022 8.3.0.cl

With this release, you can track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) more easily, and tailor conditional formatting to suit your business use cases.

You can now schedule alerts for changes in KPIs in your data. Using the Monitor function, you can schedule email notifications for your KPIs on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Select the Monitor tab to view and manage all KPI alerts you create or subscribe to. See Monitor Key Performance Indicators in your data.

The new Liveboard experience contains new features and enhancements, including Edit mode, HTML in Liveboard titles and descriptions, and improved filtering.

To try it out, navigate to your profile, scroll down to Experience, select Edit, and toggle the Liveboard experience to New experience. See New Liveboard experience.

SpotIQ has a new reorganized and more intuitive UI. The functionality remains the same.

To try it out, navigate to your profile, scroll down to Experience, select Edit, and toggle the SpotIQ experience to New experience. See SpotIQ.

You can now search data without disrupting your workflow. Just right-click the Search data button in the top navigation bar to open search in a new tab.

With the new dbt integration, you provide your existing dbt models and ThoughtSpot automatically creates Worksheets you can use to query your data.

To try out dbt integration, navigate to the Data tab, and select Utilities. Select dbt Integration.

You now have more granular user and folder-level controls for encrypting your persistent data, with advanced data encryption at rest (EAR).

With the new Jira Issue Management Spot App, you can analyze your issue tracking data. It maps your Jira data to SpotApp columns, and creates customizable Worksheets, Answers, and Liveboards, based on your data.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

April 2022 8.2.0.cl

With this release, you get even more information from KPI charts.

In the title or description of an Answer or visualization in a Liveboard, you can now make any word or phrase a hyperlink by using an <a href> HTML tag.

You can also format text as bold, italic, or highlighted.

This feature is available only for Answers and visualizations inside a Liveboard, and not for the title or description of the Liveboard itself.

If your pivot table contains multiple measures with long names, the column header now has a horizontal scroll bar, so you can see all your measures without taking up excessive space.

The redesigned data tab provides new features including SQL-based views, SpotApps, and a more intuitive user experience. To see it, select Data in the top navigation bar.

With SQL-based views, you can now create views based on custom SQL queries, and then use them as data sources.

You can now more easily create connections on the new Data workspace page. To get started, click Data > Connections, and then select a cloud data warehouse. You don’t even have to specify tables or columns when you create your connection.

SpotApps are solution templates for specific use cases and data sources. We deliver them to you as pieces of code that you can download and implement directly from our product.

In this release, we introduce Analytics Blocks, which include pre-built Worksheet, Answer, and Liveboard blocks.

We also include the ServiceNow and Snowflake SpotApps, which mimic the ServiceNow and Snowflake data models. After you connect to your ServiceNow or Snowflake data in your cloud data warehouse, ThoughtSpot maps the data to SpotApp columns, and creates functional and customizable Worksheets, Answers, and Liveboards.

All these features are part of the data tab redesign, which is in beta.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

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With this release, we are announcing the Sparkline chart enhancement for the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) chart. Just search for a metric using time keywords, like Sales weekly, and create sparkline visuals of your data’s KPI. See Sparkline visualizations for time-series KPIs.

Have you ever tried different chart types and filtering conditions on an Answer, and then decided you wanted to set your Answer back to its original state? Now you can easily do that by using the new reset button, next to the undo and redo buttons. This is only available for saved Answers in the new Answer experience. This is only available for saved Answers in the new Answer experience.

For our clients in Asia, ThoughtSpot Cloud is now available in Japan. See see ThoughtSpot Cloud requirements and support.

We enhanced our authentication protocols. ThoughtSpot supports OAuth for the following connection:

ThoughtSpot now uses Advanced Data Encryption at rest (EAR) for persistent data, both with user-level and folder-level controls.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.