ThoughtSpot Cloud 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. For more information, see Spotter for Cloud.

We made the following changes to visualizations on Liveboards:

For more information, see Basic Liveboard usage.

We have streamlined the design of Liveboard headers to ensure maximum visibility of Liveboard visualizations no matter the size of the screen. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Liveboards.

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. For more information, see Change chart colors.

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.

For more information, see Sync data from ThoughtSpot to Slack.

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. For more information, see Models.

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. For more information, see Knowledge cards.

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

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. For more information, see Control default and available chart types.

Admin users can now navigate to the ThoughtSpot Status page to monitor the health of services on their cluster. 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. For more information, see Status page.

We made the following changes to permissions regarding version control:

For more information, see Version control for Liveboards and Answers.

Analysts can now set definitions in a 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. For more information, see TML for Models.

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. For more information, see Create a custom calendar.

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.

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

December 2024 10.5.0.cl

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.

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.

To increase relevance to your search, Spotter now surfaces past global reference questions as sample questions below the search bar in the home page.

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. Note that when you run change analysis on a chart created with ratio keywords like average, you see the previous change analysis interface, one attribute at a time.

Previously, time-series KPI charts had limited options when comparing to past periods. 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. Your chosen comparison point persists for all viewers of the Liveboard. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

ThoughtSpot users can now create, edit, and manage groups within Query sets. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

We made the following enhancements to pivot table charts:

To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

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.

You can now authenticate a Databricks connection using a service principal and OAuth secret.

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.

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.

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.

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.