Results that are tables

You can rearrange the column order of your table after adding all of your search terms.

To rearrange the column order:

You can also rearrange the column order from the Edit table: Configure menu. Click the edit table configuration icon . Drag and drop the attribute or measure that you would like to move to a new position. The order of columns in the Configure menu reflects the column order of the table.

You can resize the column widths of your table after adding all of your search terms. Any adjustments you make to the column widths of your table are saved when you pin the table to a pinboard. To resize the column widths:

You can clip or wrap long text in a table cell, or on a table header. You can configure clipped or wrapped text for the entire table, or for each column individually.

When you clip long text, the table cells show only the beginning of the text. The rest appears if you increase the column width.

When you wrap long text, the table shows all the text in its cells by increasing the number of lines in the cells.

To clip or wrap text for the entire table, click the edit table configuration icon . Select Settings. Under text wrapping, choose wrap or clip.

To clip or wrap text for each column individually, hover over the column name and click the more options menu icon . Select text wrapping, and choose wrap or clip.

You can format the numbers in any table column based on a measure. This functionality allows you to change the category (number, percentage, or currency), units (auto, none, thousand, million, billion, or trillion), or method of writing negative values (-1234, 1234-, or (1234)).

To change the number formatting:

You can sort a table by column values by clicking on the column title. If you hold down the SHIFT key, you can sort on multiple column titles at a time. This is especially useful for date columns. For example, if you search for sales by week and by quarter, and just sort the quarterly column, the weeks are not in order:

If you press SHIFT and then click on the weekly column header, the weeks are in order, by quarter:

You can achieve this from the search bar, as well, by adding sort by date quarterly and sort by date weekly.

Tables automatically have footers that tell you the number of rows the table has. You can enable or disable this footer from the Settings menu.

For columns with numeric information, you can turn on column summaries that display column totals.

Column summaries are not available for tables with more than 1000 rows.

Headlines display summary information of a table result. Headlines contain summary information for each column of a table. They appear at the bottom of the table in individual boxes.

ThoughtSpot automatically creates up to 20 headlines for each table. Your ThoughtSpot configuration can be changed to accommodate more if needed. Headlines are not available for tables with more than 15000 rows, unless the data comes from an Embrace connection.

You can modify how you’d like the value to be displayed by clicking the dropdown on a headline and selecting a different type of aggregation. The usual available aggregations are total, average, standard deviation, variance, minimum, and maximum. There are also unique count and total count values available for the appropriate columns.

To add a headline to a pinboard, hover over the headline and click the Pin icon.

You can decide whether or not to display headlines in your table results. To customize headlines, click the ellipsis icon and select Customize Summaries.