ThoughtSpot Cloud 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.

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.

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.

We made the following changes to visualizations on Liveboards:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Admin users can now navigate to the ThoughtSpot Status page to monitor the health of services on their cluster. We have updated the user interface to make it more user-friendly. 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.

We made the following changes to permissions regarding version control:

Analysts can now set definitions in a Worksheet or 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.

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.

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.

ThoughtSpot Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is now available to all users. RBAC enhances the granularity of permissions.

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

Org-specific URLs are now available to all users and on 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 browser tabs that point to different Orgs.

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