ThoughtSpot Cloud 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 and Worksheet owners can decide to apply the feedback globally, so that every time someone searches for "best" products, they receive the top ten results.

For more information, see Give feedback to AI-generated Answers.

ThoughtSpot now preserves the filters you use on a KPI when you create a Monitor alert. Users with view access to the underlying Liveboard can now receive alert emails for filtered KPIs without saving the filters on the Liveboard. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Monitor alerts.

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. For more information, see Change analysis.

When you add a KPI to your homepage watchlist, ThoughtSpot automatically creates a scheduled alert, based on the KPI’s cadence. 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 without editing the original 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. For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

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 or a custom SQL view, to your Snowflake or Redshift cloud data warehouse.

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. 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. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information about how to configure a custom sort order, see Define a custom sort order for a Worksheet.

For more information about how to use custom sorting, see Custom Sort.

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

For details, see Custom calendar overview.

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. For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

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 of ThoughtSpot Everywhere, 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.

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.

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.

ThoughtSpot now preserves the filters you use on a KPI when you create a Monitor alert. Users with view 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. Use these settings to adjust the size and appearance of tooltips, regression lines, gridlines, and chart backgrounds.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can now sync data directly from an Answer or a custom SQL view, to your Google BigQuery cloud data warehouse. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

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 both your SAML groups and Orgs from your IDP to ThoughtSpot.

Thoughtspot now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) for SSO with IAMv2. Multiple identity providers with OIDC such as Google , Microsoft, and Okta are now supported.

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