February 2025 10.6.0.cl

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.

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.

December 2024 10.5.0.cl

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.

November 2024 10.4.0.cl

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.

October 2024 10.3.0.cl

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.

August 2024 10.1.0.cl

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.

July 2024 10.0.0.cl

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.

June 2024 9.12.5.cl

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.

April 2024 9.12.0.cl

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.

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.

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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.