ThoughtSpot Cloud Documentation

June 2024 9.12.5.cl

In this release, you can try our redesigned and customizable homepage, 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 homepage 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. For more information, see New homepage.

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 homepage. For more information, see Persona-based navigation.

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.

For more information, see Iterative change analysis.

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.

For more information, see Forecasting.

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. For more information, see Query sets.

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 model. Table location and size are now maintained and saved in the model.

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.

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