ThoughtSpot Cloud Documentation
ThoughtSpot Cloud™ is our hosted and managed service offering. ThoughtSpot Cloud offers multiple advantages over deployment form factors that you have to manage and maintain within your own organization.
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Find topics for the common types of ThoughtSpot users below.
What’s new in ThoughtSpot Cloud
8.2.0.cl April 2022
KPI chart type
With this release, you get even more information from KPI charts.
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Support for attributes
Have you ever wanted to display just the name of your product with the highest sales as a KPI and pin it to a Liveboard? You can now get KPIs on attributes, like products and dates.
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Conditional formatting
Add visual cues for KPIs or threshold metrics, to easily show where your measurements exceed or fall short of desirable targets. For example, you can ensure that KPI metrics stay within certain ranges.
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Support for Drill down, Show underlying data, and SpotIQ analyze
You can now right-click the sparkline visual of any KPI chart to Drill down to a finer-grain view of your data, Show underlying data, or run a custom SpotIQ analysis.
HTML in answer titles and descriptions
In the title or description of an answer or visualization in a Liveboard, you can now make any word or phrase a hyperlink by using an <a href> HTML tag.
You can also format text as bold, italic, or highlighted.
This feature is available only for answers and visualizations inside a Liveboard, and not for the title or description of the Liveboard itself.
Pivot table scroll bar
If your pivot table contains more than 2 measures, the column header now has a horizontal scroll bar, so you can see all your measures without taking up excessive space.
Other features and enhancements
Data tab redesign Beta
The redesigned data tab provides new features including SQL-based views, SpotApps, and a more intuitive user experience. To see it, select Data in the top navigation bar.
SQL-based views Beta
With SQL-based views, you can now create views based on custom SQL queries, and then use them as data sources.
Simplified connections Beta
You can now more easily create connections on the new Data Workspace page. To get started, select Data > Connections, and then select a cloud data warehouse. You don’t even have to specify tables or columns when you create your connection.
ServiceNow and Snowflake SpotApps Beta
SpotApps are solution templates for specific use cases and data sources. We deliver them to you as pieces of code that you can download and implement directly from our product.
In this release, we introduce Analytics Blocks, which include pre-built worksheet, answer, and Liveboard blocks.
We also include the ServiceNow and Snowflake SpotApps, which mimic the ServiceNow and Snowflake data models. After you connect to your ServiceNow or Snowflake data in your cloud data warehouse, ThoughtSpot maps the data to SpotApp columns, and creates functional and customizable worksheets, answers, and Liveboards.
All these features are part of the data tab redesign, which is in beta.
Okta authentication Beta
ThoughtSpot now supports cloud authentication through Okta. When enabled, all user authentication automatically switches to the internal Okta service.
Okta authentication provides significant improvements and security enhancements:
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Okta maps your IDP attributes from the ThoughtSpot Admin Console, including username, email, and display name.
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You can monitor account activation in the Admin Console > Users section. You can see if a user does not activate their account, and re-send their activation email.
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Only Okta interacts with your ID
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Local users create their own passwords during account activation. Administrators no longer have to create passwords for them.
ThoughtSpot Everywhere
For new features and enhancements introduced in this release for ThoughtSpot Everywhere, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.
About beta features
Beta features are off by default. To enable them, contact ThoughtSpot Support.
What’s coming in the next release
8.3.0.cl May 2022
KPI chart enhancements
With this release, you can track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) more easily, and tailor conditional formatting to suit your business use cases.
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Track KPI charts from your home page watchlist
You can now add KPIs to your watchlist and track them from your home page.
To access this feature, navigate to the Home tab and select Add metrics to your watchlist. See Home page.
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Conditional formatting for KPI attributes
Make your KPIs stand out with conditional formatting for attribute-type KPI charts as well as measures.
To add conditional formatting to your KPI chart, select the edit chart configuration icon
, click on the visualized metric, and select + Add rule. See Apply conditional formatting.
Monitor KPIs
You can now schedule alerts for changes in KPIs in your data. Using the Monitor function, you can schedule email notifications for your KPIs on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
Select the Monitor tab to view and manage all KPI alerts you create or subscribe to. See Monitor Key Performance Indicators in your data.
New Liveboard experience Beta
The new Liveboard experience contains new features and enhancements, including Edit mode, HTML in Liveboard titles and descriptions, and improved filtering.
To try it out, navigate to your profile, scroll down to Experience, select Edit, and toggle the Liveboard experience to New experience. See New Liveboard experience.
Recently viewed Liveboard and answer suggestions
Go to your most-viewed Liveboards and answers more quickly, with recently viewed suggestions. When you search answers, ThoughtSpot now suggests Liveboards and answers you’ve recently viewed, as well as popular objects.
To search answers, select the Search answers and Liveboards search bar in the top navigation bar, or near the top of the screen on your home page. See Search answers.
New SpotIQ experience SpotIQ has a new reorganized and more intuitive UI. The functionality remains the same.
To try it out, navigate to your profile, scroll down to Experience, select Edit, and toggle the SpotIQ experience to New experience. See SpotIQ.
Search data button
You can now search data without disrupting your workflow. Just right-click the Search data button in the top navigation bar to open search in a new tab.
Other features and enhancements
Integration with dbt Beta
With the new dbt integration, you provide your existing dbt models and ThoughtSpot automatically creates worksheets you can use to query your data.
Connections
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Oracle connections support Exadata and ADWThe Oracle ADW connection is renamed to Oracle. Existing ADW connections continue to work. There are now two options: Cloud for ADW connections, and On Premise for Exadata or other on-premise Oracle databases. See Oracle.
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DremioDremio is a new connection type, which supports OAuth authentication. See Dremio.
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OAuth for DatabricksDatabricks connections now support OAuth authentication. See Databricks.
Advanced data encryption at rest
You now have more granular user and folder-level controls for encrypting your persistent data, with advanced data encryption at rest (EAR).
Jira Issue Management SpotApp Beta
With the new Jira Issue Management Spot App, you can analyze your issue tracking data. It maps your Jira data to SpotApp columns, and creates customizable worksheets, answers, and Liveboards, based on your data.
ThoughtSpot Everywhere
For new features and enhancements introduced in this release for ThoughtSpot Everywhere, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.
About beta features
Beta features are off by default. To enable them, contact ThoughtSpot Support.