ThoughtSpot Cloud 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 made the following enhancements to pivot table charts:

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.