10.0.0.cl Release Notes

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

In addition to using conditional formatting to visually highlight a threshold in a measure (for example, sales > 10000), you can now use conditional formatting to compare a column’s measures to another column.

ThoughtSpot now supports grouping measure in pivot tables. You can now move measures, and position them where you want in rows and columns. For more information, see Pivot tables.

Version control for Liveboards and Answers is now available to all users. Now teams of analysts can more easily collaborate on content development of Liveboards and Answers. You can enable version control on specific Liveboards and Answers. With version control enabled, every time you save the Liveboard or Answer, a new version is created and stored. You can browse the version history in ThoughtSpot and restore any saved versions whenever you need to. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Liveboards and Answers.

ThoughtSpot is upgrading our Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities to provide a more secure login and authentication experience. This experience has been improved to ensure that you can upgrade to IAM v2 easily and with minimal downtime. For more information, see Identity and Access Management V2.

You can now delete an Org without first manually deleting the data objects, connections, groups, and users within the Org. For more information, see Create, edit, and delete Orgs.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in this release, refer to ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

ThoughtSpot introduces the ability to customize note tiles. You can now customize the appearance of note tiles. You can also edit hyperlinks and iFrames that previously had to be deleted and replaced to make changes. Images within note tiles are now responsive to screen size. For more information, see Liveboard note tiles.

You can create query sets, which can be used to classify values in a list that you can then reuse across multiple analyses. A query set is a custom group of values from a collection of objects in your database. Query sets are community objects which remain when you navigate away from the Search Data page and can be used by any user with view access to the underlying Worksheet. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Query sets.

You can now use custom charts created outside of ThoughtSpot, including third-party chart libraries. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Custom charts.

You can now connect to Alation using token-based authentication as well as service account authentication. For more information, see Alation catalog integration.

We made the following changes to Sage Coach:

ThoughtSpot introduces the ability to save table layouts in the schema viewer. Table location and size are now maintained and saved in the schema viewer. For more information, see How to view a data schema.

ThoughtSpot now supports Korean and we’ve also added synonyms for date and time based keywords in German and French for a more accurate experience.

In this release, you can try our redesigned and customizable home page, where you can ask natural-language questions with Sage, view your watchlist, favorites, library of Answers and Liveboards, and more. With the new left-hand navigation, you can go directly to your Liveboards, Answers, SpotIQ Analysis, and Monitor Subscriptions.

In this release, you can try our completely redesigned navigation experience organized by persona. The new app switcher allows business users, analysts, data engineers, administrators, and developers to work in separate contextual sections designed specifically for their needs. In addition, each app has left-hand navigation to create better consistency and ease of use for users switching between the different apps.

Drill down in change analysis is now on by default and available to all users. 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. For more information, see Iterative change analysis.

You can now use SpotIQ analysis to forecast future trends for your KPIs. ThoughtSpot uses machine learning models that learn from past trends, growth, and seasonality to project how the target metric will trend in the future. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Time-series forecasting.

AI Highlights for Liveboards is now on by default and available to all users. 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. For more information, see AI Highlights.

ThoughtSpot introduces a consistent sort order when exporting the TML of an object (table, SQL view, Liveboard, etc.). This ensures that unnecessary differences don’t show up between TML files when the objects haven’t really changed, and makes it easier to compare TML files.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in this release, refer to ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Personalized columns are now available to all users and on by default. 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.
For more information, see Remember personalized columns.

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. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.
For more information, see Iterative change analysis.

We made the following enhancements to ThoughtSpot Sync:

You can now conversationally search ThoughtSpot using natural language on a Liveboard visualization, asking follow-up questions for further clarification or to take your analysis in a new direction. This conversational approach allows you to begin with a simple question, and ask successive questions to refine the answer you receive. ThoughtSpot translates each natural language question into a query, and answers in chart format. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

You can now use SpotIQ analysis to forecast future trends for your KPIs. ThoughtSpot uses machine learning models that learn from past trends, growth, and seasonality to project how the target metric will trend in the future. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

We made the following enhancements to Sage Coach:

Collibra integration is now available to all users and on by default. You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Collibra. 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 Collibra catalog integration.

ThoughtSpot introduces support for scheduling Liveboards with Excel (XLSX) attachments, in addition to the existing PDF and CSV options. This allows users to explore tabular data from these reports by using the XLSX data files. For more information, see Schedule a Liveboard job.

ThoughtSpot now shows you which data sources are used in a Liveboard. A Liveboard may contain visualizations from many data sources. Authors may choose to use this feature to provide other Liveboard editors with access to the underlying data sources.

We have improved the error messages for CSV upload and custom calendar.

You can now change the filter values on Liveboards that have visualizations that include hidden columns, or a formula created from a hidden column.

A semi-additive measure, also known as snapshot data, is a measure that is usually aggregated for all attributes except for date and time. For certain measures, like inventory, you want to know what the value was at the beginning or end of a period. In that case, you can use the last_value function to find the inventory at the end of a month, rather than aggregating all values over the month. Similarly, you can use the first_value function to find out your stock at the beginning of a month. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

Now teams of analysts can more easily collaborate on content development of Liveboards and Answers. You can enable version control on specific Liveboards and Answers. With version control enabled, every time you save the Liveboard or Answer, a new version is created and stored. You can browse the version history in ThoughtSpot and restore any saved versions whenever you need to. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Liveboards and Answers.

Collibra catalog integration is now available to all users and on by default. You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Collibra into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Collibra to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. For more information, see Collibra catalog integration.

ThoughtSpot now supports secondary role configuration when you create a Snowflake connection using External OAuth. When you set secondary roles to ALL, you can access all tables that any single role has access to and combine them in a single SQL query without having to switch roles.

You can now create multiple configurations for each Snowflake connection. This allows you to allocate a separate Snowflake warehouse for different ThoughtSpot users or groups, eliminating the need to duplicate Liveboards and configure multiple Snowflake connections and helping you with cost tracking and chargeback. You can also use this for your search indexing so that you can control and balance the computing load. In addition, this allows you to easily test a set of Liveboards against different environments (dev, qa, prod), and configure different databases for multi-tenancy / multi-org deployments. For more information, see Creating additional configurations for your Snowflake connection.

We now support Redshift connections using AWS IDC OAuth. For more information, see Configure AWS IDC OAuth for a Redshift connection.

You can now use the User Adoption Liveboard to understand how ThoughtSpot is saving you time with ad-hoc insights, and how many users are accessing ThoughtSpot and creating new insights every month. For more information, see User Adoption Liveboard and User productivity.

You can now use the table TML file to make changes to connection details like remapping columns and changing data type, rather than using the connection.yaml file. This allows you to make small changes to a Connection without the need to resolve all possible errors first. You can also edit or export the Connection TML file from the Data Workspace. For more information, see TML for connections.

Administrators can now enable version control of Liveboards and Answers. You enable version control for your ThoughtSpot Org by connecting it to a Github repository. Once enabled for the Org, version control can be enabled individually for any Liveboard or Answer. Each time a user saves changes, a new version of the Liveboard or Answer is created and stored in your Github repository. Users can easily browse and restore an older version from the Liveboard or Answer itself. For more information, see Version control for Liveboards and Answers.

Developers can now create custom charts for ThoughtSpot using the ThoughtSpot Charts SDK. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Custom charts.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in this release, refer to ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

ThoughtSpot Sync for Google BigQuery is now on by default and available to all users. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can now sync data directly from an Answer or a custom SQL view, to your Google BigQuery cloud data warehouse. For more information, see Sync to Google BigQuery.

You can now use custom charts created outside of ThoughtSpot, including third-party chart libraries. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Custom charts.

You can create custom sets, which can be used to classify values in a list that you can then reuse across multiple analyses. ThoughtSpot introduces custom column sets in this release. A column set is a custom group of values from a single column. For example, you can use custom sets to define regions with specific countries included or excluded. Custom sets are community objects which remain when you navigate away from the Search Data page and can be used by any user with view access to the underlying Worksheet. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Custom sets.

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 your administrator. For more information, see AI Highlights.

To enable business users to answer questions related to mix, contribution, share of, percentage, and total ratios, we added the keywords "of" and "percentage of". These keywords help answer questions such as "What is the share of a certain store’s sales as a percentage of the regional whole?" To try out this feature, enter a search phrase in the search bar containing the keyword, such as sales percentage of store region, and press Go.
For more information, see Keywords: Of and Percentage of.

You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Collibra. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, this information is visible to all users. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

ThoughtSpot now supports connections to Mode. Import reusable Datasets created in Mode as table extracts to leverage the full ThoughtSpot product, from Worksheet/Model creation to Search, Answer creation, and KPI monitoring. For more information, see Connect to Mode.

You can now create joins in your Model by clicking and dragging from one table to another. To enable the Models feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Create models.

ThoughtSpot Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) enhances the granularity of permissions with the addition of new data management privileges. The following data control privileges have been added:

We made the following changes to ThoughtSpot feedback review for AI Answers:

You can now select a dbt connection and click Share to share the connection with other users or groups. You can select whether to allow edit access to the dbt user from the Share connection dialog box. For more information, see Share a dbt connection.

ThoughtSpot displays dbt error messages that clearly describe whether the error originated in dbt or in ThoughtSpot, where the error was encountered, and what steps users should take to resolve the issue. For a list of the error messages ThoughtSpot supports, see dbt error messages.

When creating a Worksheet from a dbt connection, ThoughtSpot joins the tables based on the relationships defined in the underlying .yml schema file. Now, joins between the tables will be created local to the Worksheet instead of creating a global join between the tables.

ThoughtSpot now supports the ts_groups system variable in Answer and Worksheet formulas. You can use the ts_groups variable for data masking, or deciding whether to display the value of a column to a user based on their group membership.

To improve our error messaging when an error prevents data from loading, we introduced a broader classification that allows you to understand issues more clearly. You can click "Copy error details" to download and send a file to your administrators.

Now in the new Answer data panel, you can filter as you hover on a column, By category grouping by default, and display the information panel when you click a column.

Developers can now create custom charts for ThoughtSpot using the ThoughtSpot Charts SDK. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Custom charts.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in this release, refer to ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

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. For more information, see Rename a table column.

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. For more information, see Sync to Google BigQuery.

You can now create syncs from Answers without saving first.

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. For more information, see Null and missing values in charts.

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. For more information, see Iterative change analysis.

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. For more information, see Monitor alerts.

You can now ask ThoughtSpot questions using Slack. Install the ThoughtSpot Slack app, add it to a Slack channel, and you can ask questions of your data sources in natural language. ThoughtSpot answers in chart format. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Slack app.

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. To try it out, click the comment icon to the right of the edit icon, and select the data point you would like to comment on. For more information, see Collaborative Liveboards.

When you receive an email alert 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. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Monitor.

You can now access advanced chart customization settings for Answers by selecting the Edit chart configuration icon and selecting Advanced settings. Use these settings to adjust the size and appearance of tooltips, regression lines, gridlines, and chart backgrounds. For more information, see Advanced chart settings.

You can now drill down on specific columns in change analysis, in order to identify change drivers within your data. When you right-click on an attribute value in the change analysis window to drill down, ThoughtSpot adds the attribute value as a filter and re-calculates change analysis for the specific window of time specified in your original search. For more information, see Iterative change analysis.

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. For more information, see Remember personalized columns.

You can now specify the answering chart type when you use Natural Language Search. For example, search for "sales by region pie chart", and the results appear in pie chart format. For more information, see Sage search.

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.

Easily find verified Liveboards marked with banners, and icons. Sort search results to view content tagged as verified. Request verification of Liveboards and cancel requests when needed. For more information, see Verify Liveboards.

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. For more information, see AI Highlights.

ThoughtSpot introduces role-based access control (RBAC) to allow for more granular access privileges. Use roles to apply privileges customized for your organizational needs. ThoughtSpot includes some standard roles to help existing customers transition to RBAC. RBAC is supported in Primary Orgs. To enable RBAC, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Understand RBAC and privileges.

We made the following improvements to ThoughtSpot mobile:

We added support for 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.

You can now create a connection to Looker Modeler. For more information, see Looker Modeler.

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.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in this release, refer to ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

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.

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.

ThoughtSpot introduces custom sorting of attributes to sort all chart types in a way that helps users to consume charts more efficiently. Previously custom sorting could only be applied to an Answer using custom columns and the search bar, and could not be applied to some chart types. You can now sort on any column in a chart, in ascending or descending order, from the column heading menu. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

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. 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 count and ratios. For more information, see Change analysis.

When you receive an email alert 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. For more information, see Monitor.

When you add a KPI to your homepage watchlist, ThoughtSpot automatically creates a scheduled alert. 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.

Webhooks for Monitor are now available to all users and on by default. You can create webhooks to initiate workflows in third-party applications based on KPI changes, or send KPI alert notifications to custom channels. For example, if you are monitoring a "current inventory" KPI for an inventory management use case, you can build a workflow to trigger an order placement in a third-party app when your current inventory drops below a particular threshold value. For more information, see Webhooks for Monitor.

We have renamed the pie chart as donut chart. For more information, see Donut charts.

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

The following connections are now available to all customers and are on by default:

You can now create Redshift Connections using Redshift-managed PrivateLink, as well as AWS PrivateLink. For more information, see Enabling a Redshift-managed PrivateLink between ThoughtSpot Cloud and your Redshift data warehouse.

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.

When an Org name is created, it becomes a subdomain of the cluster URL. As a DNS subdomain, an Org name cannot contain a space (' ') as a character. When used as a subdomain, any spaces in the Org name will be replaced with hyphens ('-').

Admin users can now ban passthrough functions for all connections on their cluster, to prevent SQL injection attacks. This option is available under the Search & SpotIQ section of the Admin tab.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

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 to create a view, and save it for future use. The new Liveboard is a view of the master Liveboard, so any changes made to the master Liveboard flow automatically to the filtered Liveboard view but not vice-versa. This includes changes made to pinned visualizations, tabs, filter chips, and re-ordering.

Embedding in note tiles is now available to all users and is on by default. You can now embed interactive content such as videos, pdfs, or Figma files into Liveboards using the note tile format. To try it out, enter a Liveboard, select the edit icon, and select Add note from the top bar. You can then click the embed icon and enter the URL or iFrame code for your content. You can interact with the content embedded in a Liveboard like you would with a website. For more information, see Embedding content with iFrames.

Previously, ThoughtSpot supported the ts_username variable for use in row-level security formulas alone. Now, users can access the following string variables:

When creating a filter on a Liveboard or Answer, you must have access to the underlying data source. Users can now request access to the underlying Worksheet through the filter modal on a Liveboard or Answer. For more information, see Liveboard filters.

The new data panel experience is available for all customers in this release, and is enabled by default. In this release, you can now filter data sources by how they are tagged.

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. This feature is in beta and off by default. To enable it, contact ThoughtSpot Support.
For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

We made the following improvements to ThoughtSpot mobile:

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. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, metadata information is visible to all users.

Now, you can define a parameter to link to the parameter in SAP Hana using TML at the table level, and create a linked_parameter clause to ensure the parameter is displayed in all Answers created from the table. For more information, see TML for tables and TML for Worksheets.

We now support Key Pair authentication for Snowflake.

We now support OAuth with PKCE for Databricks.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

You can now embed interactive content such as videos, pdfs, or Figma files into Liveboards using the note tile format. To try it out, enter a Liveboard, select the edit icon, and select Add note from the top bar. You can then click the embed icon and enter the URL or iFrame code for your content. You can interact with the content embedded in a Liveboard like you would with a website. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Embedding content with an iFrame.

Previously, when adding multiple date keywords to a Search, ThoughtSpot accepted the last entered date keyword as the bucket. For example, if you searched for revenue monthly yearly, ThoughtSpot would interpret monthly as month of year, rather than using the monthly bucket.
Now, when you add multiple date keywords to a Search, ThoughtSpot preserves the date bucketing implied by the first date keyword. If you would like to change the default date bucket, you can use the more options menu for the column and select Time Bucket for more options. For more information, see Multi-date bucketing.

When running change analysis, you can now see additional insights. For example, ThoughtSpot will detect 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 additional insights appear below the main analysis in the change analysis pop-up window.

You can now see the state of query execution for any Liveboard visualization while it loads. If a visualization takes longer than three seconds to load, ThoughtSpot displays the current query execution status (executing query, waiting for connection, or processing query) to help users identify the reason for the delay.

You can now hide a column from your table without removing it from your current Search. If you hide the column you’re using to sort results, the sorting order is unchanged. To try it out, create an Answer, open the Edit chart configuration icon, and drag the selected column to Hidden Columns.

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. To try it out, click the comment icon to the right of the edit icon, and select the data point you would like to comment on. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Comment on a Liveboard.

Beginning in 9.6.0.cl, ThoughtSpot generates insight narratives in natural language to summarize the data analyzed in SpotIQ. The narratives are generated by LLM, and appear above the charts created by SpotIQ. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Natural language narratives.

Alation metadata is now available to all users and on by default. Users can now see metadata information on tables and columns imported from Alation. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, metadata information is visible to all users. For more information, see Catalog integration.

We made the following enhancements to verified Liveboards:

ThoughtSpot Connected Slides is an add-on that allows you to insert charts and live data visualizations right into your Google Slides™ presentation. Just connect to ThoughtSpot, find a chart or visualization, and add it to your slide presentation. For details, see ThoughtSpot Connected Slides.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to Amazon Athena. For more information, see Amazon Athena.

Previously, ThoughtSpot displayed generic error messages for connection errors on Liveboards. Now, you can see the error message received from the underlying Cloud data warehouse.

Alation catalog integration is now available to all users and on by default. You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Alation into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Alation to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. For more information, see Alation catalog integration.

Admin users can now see indexing statistics for their cluster using the Index Statistics Liveboard. You can filter the results by connection, table, and column, and see the breakdown of indexed search tokens in the visualizations. This Liveboard helps you see how many search tokens you are using, and can help you diagnose indexing issues and errors. For more information, see Index Statistics Liveboard.

In the past, ThoughtSpot generated a new Worksheet every time a user edited an existing dbt data model. Now, ThoughtSpot maintains a persistent connection with dbt and provides realtime updates. Users can update an object, update an object and create a new object, or simply create a new object. For more information, see Integrate with dbt.

Previously, when a Worksheet was created from a dbt model, the default worksheet join rule was "apply all joins". Now, "apply joins progressively" is the default. This means that when a Search is done on the Worksheet, joins are applied as each search term is added, rather than applying all joins to every Search.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Previously, you couldn’t export a liveboard with more than 40 visualizations, even if they were across multiple tabs. Starting in this release, you can now export a Liveboard with more than 40 visualizations, as long a single tab has no more than 40 visualizations.

Admin-assigned verifiers can now mark Liveboards as verified. Users can now request these verifiers to review their Liveboards, and verify if the information displayed is trusted content. Verified Liveboards carry a tag that signifies that they have been audited for correctness. For more information, see Verified Liveboards.

You can now edit the display name of filters on Liveboards to better represent your data. To try it out, click the Edit icon on a Liveboard, click the filter you want to rename, select Filter options.

You can now create custom groups, which can be used to classify values in a list you can then reuse across multiple analyses. Custom groups are community objects which remain when you navigate away from the Search Data page and can be viewed by any user with view access to the underlying Worksheet. For more information, see Custom groups.

You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Alation into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Alation to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, metadata information is visible to all users.

We added support for rolling, fixed, and custom date filters when creating an Answer or filtering a Liveboard. Previously, when adding a date filter to a Search, ThoughtSpot supported the conditions ON (=), ON OR AFTER (>=), BEFORE (<), and BETWEEN. Now, you can additionally filter for ON OR BEFORE (<=), NOT BETWEEN, ON LAST, and ON NEXT. To try it out, click the filter icon next to the Date column in the left side menu, or click the date filter below the Answer or Liveboard title. For more information, see Date filters for Answers and Liveboards.

You can now see notifications for threshold and anomaly alerts in the ThoughtSpot notification service, rather than receiving emails.

When creating a Liveboard, you can now designate attribute filters as single-select, in addition to multi-select. For example, you could choose to make a Country filter single-select, so users would only see data related to one country at a time.

ThoughtSpot now supports the following enhancements for geomap visualizations:

We have improved the responsiveness of Liveboards. For windows between 1024 pixels and 500 pixels, the Liveboard columns respond to re-sizing. For windows smaller than 500 pixels in width, a horizontal scroll bar appears.

When you create bar and column charts and slice by color, ThoughtSpot automatically enables gridlines to make the chart easier to read. You can choose to disable gridlines under the chart configuration menu.

We made the following enhancements to natural language search:

We made the following enhancements to pivot table charts:

ThoughtSpot admins now have more control for enabling the new data panel experience for users. As before, an admin can enable the new data panel experience by going to Admin > Early Access features, and enabling Data Fluency. Each user can selectively enable the new data panel experience by going to their user profile, and setting the Answer data experience to New experience. In this release, admins can now make the new answer data panel experience default for all users of a cluster, by going to Admin > Search & SpotIQ and setting the Make new answer data panel experience default to Enabled.

ThoughtSpot is deprecating the pin Headline to Liveboard feature. Beginning in the 9.4.0.cl Cloud release, users will no longer see the pin icon when they select table summaries. To visualize and pin single aggregated measures, attributes in string/date format, or time-series metrics with sparklines, we recommend creating KPI charts. Existing Headlines pinned to Liveboards will not be affected in this release. For more information, see How to convert Headlines to KPI charts.

You can create webhooks to initiate workflows in third-party applications based on KPI changes, or send KPI alert notifications to custom channels. For example, if you are monitoring a "current inventory" KPI for an inventory management use case, you can build a workflow to trigger an order placement in a third-party app when your current inventory drops below a particular threshold value. Webhooks for Monitor is in beta and off by default. To enable it, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

When using a parameter in a Search, Answer, or Liveboard, you can now change the allowed values type (for example, from List to Range). You can also add or delete values from a list parameter while it’s in use, or increase or decrease the minimum and maximum values in a range parameter. We do not support changing the data type of the parameter (for example, from INT to DATE). For more information, see Create parameters.

We made the following enhancements to ThoughtSpot Mobile:

ThoughtSpot introduces role-based access control (RBAC) to allow for more granular access privileges. Use roles to apply privileges customized for your organizational needs.

ThoughtSpot Connected Sheets is an add-on that allows you to connect to a ThoughtSpot instance, pull data directly into a Google Sheet from trusted data sources connected to that instance (like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, DataBricks, and others), and use the tools in Google Sheets for ad-hoc analysis.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to SingleStore. For details, see Connect to SingleStore.

Redshift now supports external OAuth through Microsoft Azure AD. See Configure Azure AD external OAuth for a Redshift connection.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Admin-assigned verifiers can now mark Liveboards as verified. Users can now request these verifiers to review their Liveboards, and verify if the information displayed is trusted content. Verified Liveboards carry a tag that signifies that they have been audited for correctness. For more information, see Verified Liveboards.

We introduced a Liveboard to answer the following questions:

You can now create custom groups, which can be used to classify values in a list you can then reuse across multiple analyses. Custom groups are community objects which remain when you navigate away from the Search Data page and can be viewed by any user with view access to the underlying Worksheet. For more information, see Custom groups.

We added support for rolling, fixed, and custom date filters when creating an Answer or filtering a Liveboard. Previously, when adding a date filter to a Search, ThoughtSpot supported the conditions ON (=), ON OR AFTER (>=), BEFORE (<), and BETWEEN. Now, you can additionally filter for ON OR BEFORE (<=), NOT BETWEEN, ON LAST, and ON NEXT. To try it out, click the filter icon next to the Date column in the left side menu, or click the date filter below the Answer or Liveboard title. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Date filters for Answers and Liveboards.

ThoughtSpot now supports the following enhancements for geomap visualizations:

We have improved the responsiveness of Liveboards. For windows between 1024 pixels and 500 pixels, the Liveboard columns respond to re-sizing. For windows smaller than 500 pixels in width, a horizontal scroll bar appears.

We are introducing the ability to specify the case of a table column (for example, upper, lower, or mixed). Previously, SQL generated by ThoughtSpot was always wrapped in a LOWER function with no configuration options. Now, users will be able to define whether columns in tables are mixed case or lower case. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

In this release, worksheet formulas can now be indexed by setting Suggest values in search to Yes for the formula.

You now receive in-app notifications when items are shared with them, or when other users request access to an Answer or Liveboard. To view these notifications, simply click on the user profile icon. For more information, see Web notifications.

Contextual change is now GA and on by default. You can now identify the key change drivers for changes in your metrics in a KPI chart. Select the percent change label or select any two data points on the KPI sparkline to view change analysis on your top 5 columns by usage-based ranking (UBR) and identify the reason behind the observed change. You can view the changes in other columns by clicking Manage attributes and selecting the desired column(s).

ThoughtSpot admins now have more control for enabling the new data panel experience for users. As before, an admin can enable the new data panel experience by going to Admin > Early Access features, and enabling Data Fluency. Each user can selectively enable the new data panel experience by going to their user profile, and setting the Answer data experience to New experience. In this release, admins can now make the new answer data panel experience default for all users of a cluster, by going to Admin > Search & SpotIQ and setting the Make new answer data panel experience default to Enabled.

ThoughtSpot Connected Sheets is an add-on that allows you to connect to a ThoughtSpot instance, pull data directly into a Google Sheet from trusted data sources connected to that instance (like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, DataBricks, and others), and use the tools in Google Sheets for ad-hoc analysis.

ThoughtSpot is deprecating the pin Headline to Liveboard feature. Beginning in the 9.4.0.cl Cloud release, users will no longer see the pin icon when they select table summaries. To visualize and pin single aggregated measures, attributes in string/date format, or time-series metrics with sparklines, we recommend creating KPI charts. Existing Headlines pinned to Liveboards will not be affected in this release. For more information, see How to convert Headlines to KPI charts.

We now display Liveboard tabs in the ThoughtSpot Mobile app. To create a Liveboard tab, you must access ThoughtSpot in a browser.

When users are invited to ThoughtSpot via a Share link, they can now click the Keep exploring button to be directed to onboarding.

We made the following changes to the natural language search feature:

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to the following connections:

If you run into an error while creating a connection, you can now click View details to see error details and add a comment for your administrator.

ThoughtSpot now supports dbt version 1.5.

ThoughtSpot Cloud now supports the London region when you connect using AWS. See ThoughtSpot Cloud requirements and support.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

We increased the CSV upload limit in Free Trial to ten files per user. For more information, see Load CSV files in Free Trial.

When you create a Worksheet, ThoughtSpot automatically creates synonyms for each column name. This feature is now available for administrators to enable by default, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. Users can easily start searching on your data, without knowing the exact names for every column. For example, if you have a column named Product type, ThoughtSpot might create a synonym such as Product Category. When a user searches for revenue by product category, for example, ThoughtSpot returns sales by product type. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information, see Create synonyms for a column.

The Liveboard note tiles feature is now GA. Add notes to your Liveboards, so that viewers of your Liveboards can quickly understand how to use the data and visualizations you gathered. Note tiles can provide an overview of a Liveboard or visualization, company branding through images, definitions of terms used in the Liveboard, and so on. With the GA of the note tiles feature, you don’t need a specific privilege to upload images. See Liveboard note tiles.

Arrange Answer filters in the filter bar so that they are in a logical, coherent order, by dragging and dropping them to different spots in the list. This makes it easier for viewers of the Answer to understand and use the filters on the Answer. For more information, see Change the filter order.

You can now use natural language to search for answers to your business questions. This feature is now available for administrators to enable, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. To try it out, navigate to the Home page, select the search bar labeled Ask any business question you have and type your question. When you enter your question, you will see the AI generated answer appear, along with a list of related Answers created by users in your team.

The AI-suggested searches feature helps you think of relevant questions to ask of your own data source, by providing examples of searches. This feature is now available for administrators to enable, without contacting ThoughtSpot Support. This feature is designed to help you get started if you are a new user of Search Data, or if you are working with a new Worksheet. For more information, see AI-suggested searches. This feature must be enabled by your administrator.

Liveboard cross filters are now GA. Right-click on any data point in your Liveboard and easily filter the entire Liveboard by that value. For example, if you right-click California in a geo chart on your Liveboard, and then select Filter, all the other visualizations only show data from California. A visualization for Total sales by city, for example, would only show sales for cities in California. This feature is also called brushing and linking. For more information, see Liveboard cross filters.

You can now identify the key change drivers for changes in your metrics in a KPI chart. Select the percent change label or select any two data points on the KPI sparkline to view change analysis on your top 5 columns by usage-based ranking (UBR) and identify the reason behind the observed change. You can view the changes in other columns by clicking Manage attributes and selecting the desired column(s). This feature must be enabled by your administrator.

To enable business users to answer questions related to mix, contribution, share of, percentage, and total ratios, we added the keywords "of" and "percentage of". These keywords help answer questions such as "What is the share of a certain store’s sales as a percentage of the regional whole?" Previously, searches such as these required the use of a group aggregate formula, which presented a barrier to users.
For more information, see Keywords: Of and Percentage of. This feature is off by default. To enable it, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

You can now include attributes in the pivot table cells as well as measures. This is useful for cases when you want to summarize text data such as user role, pass/fail, or other attributes. For more information, see Pivot table charts.

You can now configure the legend position of a chart, or hide the legend. The available options are left, right, above, and below the visualization. To try it out, open the chart configuration menu, select Settings, and choose between Legend on right, Legend on left, Legend on top, and Legend on bottom. You can select the Show legend toggle to hide or show the legend. See Changing charts.

When you scroll down in a Liveboard, the Liveboard name, menu options, and filter and tab bars remain visible. You don’t need to scroll back up to the top to edit the Liveboard or check if you’re filtering by a specific store. You can see the filters or parameters applied to the Liveboard, select the Edit button or more options menu, and view which tab you’re on from any spot in the Liveboard.

In this release, we introduce the option change the contextual menu interaction to left-click. Then, you can access the contextual menu for visualization data points with a left click. Instead of right-clicking on a data point to include or exclude it, drill down on it, or show underlying data, now you can access the menu more easily, with a single left click.

ThoughtSpot Cloud will be available on Google Cloud Platform in addition to AWS. Customers can choose whether they want their SaaS deployed on AWS or GCP.

This release includes the following improvements to the dbt integration:

ThoughtSpot Cloud will be available on Google Cloud Platform in addition to AWS. Customers can choose whether they want their SaaS deployed on AWS or GCP.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For details, see Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to Amazon RDS PostgreSQL. For details, see Amazon RDS PostgreSQL.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to MySQL. For details, see MySQL.

Previously, when multiple database connections were configured to receive CSV uploads without a specified table or worksheet for collocation, the files were randomly uploaded to one of the connections. With this new enhancement, administrators and data managers now have the ability to specify a default target connection for such uploads.
To set the default target connection, navigate to Data > Connections, click the More menu icon , select Configure data upload, and click the Enable data upload toggle to on. Next, select the Set as default CSV upload destination toggle. By specifying a default connection, you ensure that CSV files without a designated destination will be uploaded to the chosen connection. This enhancement provides better control and organization of CSV uploads, making it easier to manage data in scenarios where end-users do not select a co-location for their uploaded files.

Admin users will be able to access a Liveboard reflecting the pricing model purchased and associated with their cluster. Query-based pricing customers see the Billable Query Stats Liveboard, while time-based pricing customers see the Credit Usage Liveboard.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

When you create a Worksheet, ThoughtSpot automatically creates synonyms for each column name. Users can easily start searching on your data, without knowing the exact names for every column. For example, if you have a column named Product type, ThoughtSpot might create a synonym such as Product Category. When a user searches for revenue by product category, for example, ThoughtSpot returns sales by product type. This feature must be enabled by ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Create synonyms for a column.

Add notes to your Liveboards, so that viewers of your Liveboards can quickly understand how to use the data and visualizations you gathered. Note tiles can provide an overview of a Liveboard or visualization, company branding through images, definitions of terms used in the Liveboard, and so on. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. See Liveboard note tiles.

Upload your own custom maps and visualize data on geo charts with regions that are specific to you and your organization.

The Parameters feature is now GA and on by default. Any user can now create Parameters at the Answer level to optimize their data inquiries. Analysts can also create Worksheet Parameters that are available to all Worksheet users. Use Parameters to run different scenarios with adjustable values, without creating or modifying the constants in formulas for each new value. For more information, refer to Create parameters and Using parameters.

Arrange Liveboard filters in the filter bar so that they are in a logical, coherent order, by dragging and dropping them to different spots in the list. This makes it easier for viewers of the Liveboard to understand and use the filters on the Liveboard. For more information, see Change the filter order.

TML for Monitor alerts is now GA and on by default. Export, edit, and import KPI Monitor alerts programmatically, using ThoughtSpot Modeling Language. For more information, see Syntax of the Monitor alert TML file.

For data security, you may choose to remove attached files from scheduled Liveboard emails. When this feature is enabled, scheduled Liveboard email recipients will receive an email with a link to the Liveboard, which they will need to sign in to see.To ensure that only signed-in users can access your data, contact ThoughtSpot Support to enable this option. For more information, see Scheduled Liveboards.

When creating an alert for a KPI chart, you can now include a custom message in the alert update email. You can use this feature to specify next steps the alert subscribers should take once the KPI reaches a certain threshold.

Optionally disable heatmap charts' data labels, and understand the chart quickly by scanning the heatmap colors. This makes complex heatmap charts with many data values easier to read. See Heatmap charts.

When scheduling Liveboards, you can now specify your timezone.

For any column with a high cardinality, which is defined as more than 100,000 unique column values, ThoughtSpot does not index the column if the index type is DEFAULT. This means the column values do not show up in search suggestions. Previously, this limit was 1 million unique column values. This change improves performance, and reduces index times and memory usage.

Adjust Parameter values at runtime from Liveboard or Answer URLs, or using REST API v1 requests. For more information, see Runtime overrides for Parameters and Runtime Parameters.

By default, scheduled and downloaded Liveboard PDFs now render at a width of 1920 px. This ensures that most Liveboard PDFs you download or schedule look the same as the Liveboards you see in ThoughtSpot. You can also change this default width to a different width for your company, by contacting ThoughtSpot Support. See Download a Liveboard as a PDF and Schedule a Liveboard job.

When scheduling Liveboards, you can now specify your time zone. For more information, see Schedule a Liveboard job.

Group aggregate filter enhancements are GA and on by default. Previously, when using group_aggregate formulas, users could use query_filters to include filters entered in the search bar in the formula’s value, but it was difficult to write a formula that accepted filters from only a single column.
Starting with this release, you can specify column names within the ‘filters’ section of a group_aggregate formula, and any filter in your search bar referencing that column will be added to the formula. Filters entered in the search bar that are not on columns specified in the third argument of the group_aggregate formula will be ignored. For details, see Group aggregation filters.

To reduce confusion when using aggregate formulas, the level of detail defined in group formulas is now respected at query level. For more information, see Flexible aggregation functions.
To reduce confusion when using aggregate formulas, the level of detail defined in group formulas is now respected at query level. For example, when trying to calculate the contribution of each store’s sales to the entire region, you might use a group_sum formula, where the sales at store level is divided by the sales at regional level. Your search would include the following columns: Revenue, Customer nation, Regional Revenue formula, and Customer region, where Regional Revenue formula = group_sum(Revenue, Customer Region).
According to the old reaggregation behavior, if a customer removed Customer region from the search bar, the level of detail in the formula would no longer be respected and the formula’s denominator would re-aggregate up to the total. In this case, the formula result would display revenue as a percentage of total revenue, rather than as a percentage of regional revenue.
Under the new aggregation behavior, the formula result will continue to display revenue as a percentage of each region, even if you remove Customer region from the search bar. Visualizations will also display the correct aggregation even if the grouping column is not added to the X-axis.
For more information, see Flexible aggregation functions.

Data labels on a dark background are now GA and on by default. Labels that appear on a dark background now display in a lighter text color, making them easier to read.

We improved the syntax of our text keywords, such as begins with and contains, to provide users with more flexibility. For example, the contains keyword now accepts expressions such as product name contains 'shoes' or 'snickers'. See the Keyword reference.

You can now use natural language to search for answers to your business questions. To try it out, navigate to the Home page, select the search bar labeled Ask any business question you have and type your question. When you enter your question, you will see the AI generated answer appear, along with a list of related Answers created by users in your team.

The AI-suggested searches feature helps you think of relevant questions to ask of your own data source, by providing examples of searches. This feature is designed to help you get started if you are a new user of Search Data, or if you are working with a new Worksheet. For more information, see AI-suggested searches. This feature must be enabled by ThoughtSpot Support.

Click on any data point in your Liveboard and easily filter the entire Liveboard by that value. For example, if you select California in a geo chart on your Liveboard, and then select Filter, all the other visualizations only show data from California. A visualization for Total sales by city, for example, would only show sales for cities in California. This feature is also called brushing and linking. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. For more information about cross filters, see Liveboard cross filters.

Mandatory Liveboard filters are now GA. Mark certain filters in your Liveboard as mandatory. If you add mandatory filters to a Liveboard, the visualizations will only load after Liveboard viewers select values for the mandatory filters. Use mandatory filters for Liveboards that contain data that may not be relevant for everyone who must view and consume the Liveboard. Mandatory filters also lower query and performance costs.

You can now set your KPI chart to display a percent change comparison between the most recent data point and a custom comparison point. For example, when searching for sales monthly, you can choose to see percent change between this month and the previous month, previous quarter, or previous year. For more information, see Custom comparison points.

KPI change analysis is now GA and on by default. You can now use change analysis to directly identify the key drivers for change in your KPIs.

You can now see anomalies in time-series KPI charts. Our new anomaly detection algorithm detects data which does not fall within the expected confidence intervals, while allowing for seasonal changes and growth over time. This feature must be enabled by your administrator. To try it out, open your KPI chart as an Answer, open the chart configuration menu, and select Show anomalies. See Anomaly detection.

You can now use ThoughtSpot Sync to sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to the following apps:

When scheduling a sync with an external app, you can now choose to schedule every 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, and 45 minutes, in addition to the other existing schedule options.

When creating a sync to HubSpot, you can now use email as a mapping field on the Contacts object type, as well as ContactID.

The apply multiple changes feature is now GA and on by default. In previous releases, every time a user reordered the fields in the chart configuration panel, the chart reloaded. When creating a visualization with multiple fields, users often need to make multiple rearrangements to reach a desired chart. Now users can make multiple configurations and apply them at the same time rather than waiting in between each configuration. For more information, see Reorder labels on the axis or legend.

We streamlined the file format options when downloading tables and charts from ThoughtSpot. You can download tables in XLSX, CSV, or PDF format, and download charts in XLSX, CSV, or PNG format. To try it out, open a chart or table, and select Download from the more options menu . For more information, see Download a chart or table.

ThoughtSpot is updating the Liveboard experience for the mobile app. Mobile app users can now view KPI charts in Liveboards.

When using ThoughtSpot Mobile, you can now press the Load More button at the bottom of a table to see the next 100 rows of data.

This release improves the translated French keywords. See Français (France) Keyword reference.

In your user profile, you can now set the option of receiving email notifications when other users share Liveboards or answers with you, or when they request access to Liveboards or answers which you edit. These new preferences are enabled by default. See Notification preferences.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to SQL Server. For details, see SQL Server.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to Generic JDBC databases. For details, see Generic JDBC.

You can now connect to and query Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases.

When creating a connection to Databricks, you can now enter your catalog name under the Catalog field. For more information, see Add a Databricks connection.

When creating a sync to an external app, admin users will no longer see destinations created by other users in the Destinations dropdown menu. Admin users will still be able to see a list of all destinations created by users in their organization when they navigate to the Destinations tab in the Data Workspace.

Remove columns from tables in ThoughtSpot by deleting them in the tables' TML files. We support deleting a column from a TML file and removing that column’s dependencies in the same zip file import. Note that if the deletion of a column fails, the whole import will fail. For more information, see Deleting columns, joins, and RLS rules.

Use TML to directly edit a join condition by editing the TML file’s on parameter. This replaces the existing process of deleting and recreating the join in TML or the ThoughtSpot application. For more information, see TML join syntax.

We standardized the method of creating joins for all data objects in ThoughtSpot. When creating a join from a view, users are now directed to a Create join page where they can choose a connection, name the join, and map the source and destination columns.

In this release, administrators can contact ThoughtSpot Support to enable Private Preview features, which are complete, and available for select customers to try before they reach GA, when they are enabled by default. Then, administrators can selectively enable or disable this feature set for users and groups, using the Can preview ThoughtSpot Sage user privilege. For more information, see Private Preview features and Understanding privileges.

Cross-Region Disaster Recovery allows ThoughtSpot to recover your ThoughtSpot instance in a secondary cloud region in the case of a failure of the primary cloud region where ThoughtSpot is running. This ensures that if one cloud region fails, ThoughtSpot can start in another region, guaranteeing minimal downtime. See Data Protection and Disaster Recovery.

Use the Object Usage Liveboard to easily track how specific objects (Liveboards, Answers, Worksheets, or tables) are trending over time. Our new visualizations allow you to understand adoption on the object-level, and filter on a specific user or users to see usage on the user-level. For more information, see Object Usage Liveboard.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Create Worksheet Parameters to optimize your data inquiries. Use Parameters to run different scenarios with adjustable values, without creating or modifying the constants in formulas for each new value. For more information, refer to Create parameters and Using parameters.

Upload your own custom maps and visualize data on geo charts with regions that are specific to you and your organization. This feature must be enabled by your administrator.

Labels that appear on a dark background can be displayed in a lighter text color, making them easier to read. This feature must be enabled by your administrator.

By default, ThoughtSpot displays measures in columns in pivot tables. With this release, choose whether to display measures in rows or columns in your pivot tables. For more information, see Reorder your pivot table.

Every time when a user drag and drop the fields in the chart configuration panel, the chart reloads. When a user has multiple fields, they need to rearrange a lot of them to reach a desired chart. Now users can make multiple configurations, and apply them rather than waiting in between each configuration.

Export, edit, and import KPI Monitor alerts programmatically, using ThoughtSpot Modeling Language. For more information, see Syntax of the Monitor alert TML file.

When you edit and import table TML files, ThoughtSpot now supports deletion of joins at the table level and RLS rules. Refer to ThoughtSpot Modeling Language.

To reduce ambiguity when exporting TML files, export the fully qualified names (FQNs) for the objects' data sources. If you select this option, the TML file contains FQNs for the underlying tables and connections.

Previously, when using group_aggregate formulas, users could use query_filters to include filters entered in the search bar in the formula’s value, but it was difficult to write a formula that accepted filters from only a single column. Starting with this release, you can specify column names within the ‘filters’ section of a group_aggregate formula, and any filter in your search bar referencing that column will be added to the formula. Filters entered in the search bar that are not on columns specified in the third argument of the group_aggregate formula will be ignored.

Mark certain filters in your Liveboard as mandatory. If you add mandatory filters to a Liveboard, the visualizations will only load after Liveboard viewers select values for the mandatory filters. Use mandatory filters for Liveboards that contain data that may not be relevant for everyone who must view and consume the Liveboard. Mandatory filters also lower query and performance costs. This feature must be enabled by your administrator.

You can now sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to the following apps:

Change the name or description of a Liveboard or visualization without entering Edit mode. The more menu for Liveboards and Liveboard visualizations now includes a Rename option, where you can edit the object name and description. For more information, see Other Liveboard edits.

Snowflake CSV upload is GA in this release. Now you have a quick and easy way to complete one-time data loads of small files that are not present in your cloud data warehouse. You can now upload a CSV file to the database of your Snowflake connection that can be joined to other tables or Worksheets in your connection. Once your administrator enables this feature, go to Data > Utilities, and click Upload CSV. See Configure CSV upload for your Snowflake connection.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to PostgreSQL. For details, see PostgreSQL.

Redshift Partner Connect allows you to try out ThoughtSpot connected to Redshift for free. For details, see ThoughtSpot in Redshift Partner Connect.

Manage your ThoughtSpot table and Worksheet column properties and table joins in dbt by using metadata tags to define column properties and joins within your dbt model schema. dbt stays the source of truth, and you don’t have to manually update the columns in ThoughtSpot when you make changes to your dbt model. For more information, see Metadata tags for dbt.

You can now share connections with other users or groups. Once granted access to a connection, users can add, remove, and modify tables in that connection. For more information, see About connections in ThoughtSpot Cloud.

In this release, administrators can selectively enable or disable Early Access features for all users, using the Admin Console. For more information, see Enable Early Access features. Early Access features are new in this release. For more information about them, see ThoughtSpot Cloud release life cycle.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Admins will be able to view, edit or delete alerts even if they are not the creator or subscriber of those alerts. For more information, see Permissions.

ThoughtSpot Sync Salesforce connection is now GA and on by default. You can now sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to Salesforce. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can push insights directly to Salesforce, notify your teams, and view data in context. ThoughtSpot Sync automatically establishes a secure pipeline to the destination app and thus eliminates the need for building custom connectors. For more information, see Sync data to Salesforce.

ThoughtSpot Sync schedules are now GA and on by default. When creating a sync from ThoughtSpot to an external business app (Google Sheets, Microsoft Teams, Slack), you can now schedule the sync to repeat on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. To try it out, create a sync and select Schedule your sync. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Sync.

Previously, when deleting tables from Connections, ThoughtSpot did not delete the table’s metadata completely. Starting in 8.10.0.cl, tables deleted through the ThoughtSpot UI disappear completely from your cluster.

ThoughtSpot now supports multiple AWS PrivateLinks in your environment, using any combination of the cloud data warehouses that ThoughtSpot supports for PrivateLink. If you have data in multiple cloud data warehouses that needs an additional layer of security and network reliability, you can set up an AWS PrivateLink between each CDW, for a maximum of five PrivateLinks.

This release introduces ThoughtSpot’s multi-tenancy feature, which allows a ThoughtSpot cloud instance to be logically partitioned into multiple tenant-specific environments called Orgs.

Use the Object Usage Liveboard to easily track how specific objects (Liveboards, Answers, Worksheets, or tables) are trending over time. Our new visualizations allow you to understand adoption on the object-level, and filter on a specific user or users to see usage on the user-level.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Custom tile sizes for visualizations within Liveboards are now generally available. In addition to the 5 predetermined visualization sizes, you can now customize your Liveboard visualizations to be any size. See Edit the layout of a Liveboard.

Liveboard ThoughtSpot Modeling Language (TML) files now contain distinct GUIDs for each visualization in the Liveboard by default. This ensures that the GUID for the visualization stays the same after you import or export it. See the TML viz_guid parameter.

ThoughtSpot changed the pinboard parameter in Liveboard TML files to liveboard, consistent with our rebrand of pinboards as Liveboards.

You can now sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to Salesforce. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can push insights directly to Salesforce, notify your teams, and view data in context. ThoughtSpot Sync automatically establishes a secure pipeline to the destination app and thus eliminates the need for building custom connectors. For more information, see Sync data to Salesforce

The discoverable Answers and Liveboards feature is now GA and on by default. You can now make content easily available to your team members. Use the Make this [Answer | Liveboard] discoverable checkbox that appears when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard to grant view access to your teammates.

You can now edit your display name by clicking the profile icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. For more information, see Edit display name.

This release includes the following updates to the tags feature in the Data workspace:

With query banding, Teradata connections now support the trust SQL feature in Teradata. This provides additional permissions to a ThoughtSpot user for accessing specific tables in Teradata to execute queries. The user must be configured as an application proxy user in Teradata. Query banding also allows tracking of statistics for queries executed by a user. Refer to Add a Teradata connection.

In this release, ThoughtSpot officially certifies and provides support for Microsoft SQL Server used with Synapse connections. Refer to Add a Synapse connection.

ThoughtSpot now supports High Availability through deployment spanning multiple Availability Zones. This ensures that the ThoughtSpot Cloud application experiences near-zero downtime in the case of AWS Availability Zone (AZ) failures. To learn how to enable High Availability in your environment, see High Availability and resilience AWS-only.

The new Billable Query Stats Liveboard allows administrators of customers who have signed up for a query-based usage subscription, to track the number of queries of their users. To view the Billable Query Stats Liveboard, go to Liveboards and select Billable Query Stats Liveboard. Query-based usage is part of consumption-based pricing. For more information, see Query-based usage.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

This release introduces custom tile sizes for visualizations within Liveboards. In addition to the 5 predetermined visualization sizes, you can now customize your Liveboard visualizations to be any size. See Edit the layout of a Liveboard.

The formula editor assistant now contains a search bar for formula functions. Use it to search for specific functions to include in your formula. Refer to Add a formula to a search.

The new year_name formula function returns the year in string format for a given date. This improves the behavior of formulas involving years when using a custom calendar with year values that are not in integer format. Refer to Formula function reference.

We changed the default behavior for table aggregation summaries when the search contains a formulas that contain both a conditional clause (if…​ then…​ else) and a group_aggregate expression. When a user searches with a formula containing both a conditional clause and a group_aggregate expression, then ThoughtSpot detects the aggregation type on the first non-constant output clause and uses it in the headline summary. In this context, a non-constant output clause means any base column reference (for example, Revenue), or formula (for example, sum(revenue)).

When creating a sync from ThoughtSpot to an external business app (Google Sheets, Microsoft Teams, Slack), you can now schedule the sync to repeat on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. To try it out, create a sync and select Schedule your sync. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Sync.

You can now use SpotIQ analysis to directly identify the key drivers for recent change in your KPIs. KPI change analysis allows you to drill down into the causes of change in your KPIs and customize the insights generated by SpotIQ.

You can now apply and edit tags on Liveboards and Answers directly from the Home page, as well as from the Answers and Liveboards tabs. To try it out, select the checkbox next to the name(s) of the Answer(s) or Liveboard(s) you would like to tag and click the Apply tags button that appears. For more information, see Home page.

We have made the following improvements to the Show underlying data feature:

This release improves the translated German keywords. See Deutsch Keyword reference.

You can now delete a join from the ThoughtSpot UI even if the join has dependents. Deleting the join does not delete the dependents. This allows you to delete a join and create it again in the other direction, without invalidating or deleting any dependent objects.

This release supports integration with dbt for the following 2 new cloud data warehouses:

ThoughtSpot now supports secure access from ThoughtSpot Cloud to your data in ThoughtSpot’s supported cloud data warehouses, through your IPSec VPN server.

Identity and Access Management V2 (IAMv2) is now GA. It is off by default. With IAMv2, ThoughtSpot switched to a new, industry-standard cloud authentication method through Okta. ThoughtSpot now powers its internal authentication with Okta, which is the industry-leading authentication platform. This change is internal and has no impact on customers. After we enable this feature by default, all user authentication will automatically use the internal Okta service.

We made the following changes to the ThoughtSpot license agreement signing process:

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

You can now customize the colors used for heatmap and treemap charts. Prior to this release, the only available heatmap color was teal in various shades, and the only available treemap color was green in various shades. Now you can choose any color in your color palette. For more information, see Heatmap charts and Treemap charts.

ThoughtSpot now supports separating Liveboards into multiple tabs. This allows you to group specific visualizations together within a Liveboard. For example, you may have a Sales Liveboard that contains top-level KPIs and more detailed charts. You can create a tab for the top-level KPIs for executives to view, and a tab for the more detailed charts that managers need to monitor. For more information, refer to Liveboard tabs.

Threshold-based alerts are now GA and on by default. You can now use the Monitor feature to receive alerts when your KPI satisfies a given threshold condition. For example, create a condition to receive an alert when your Sales KPI becomes greater than 200,000, or when your KPI for Sales weekly increases by 2%. For more information, see Create a threshold-based alert.

You can now sync data directly from an Answer or custom SQL view to an external business app like Google Sheets, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. Using ThoughtSpot Sync, you can push insights directly to your app, notify your teams, and view data in context. ThoughtSpot Sync automatically establishes a secure pipeline to the destination app and thus eliminates the need for building custom connectors to external apps. For more information, see Sync data from ThoughtSpot to external apps.

ThoughtSpot now supports multiple contains, begins_with, and ends_with phrases in vs queries. For example, you can now have a versus query such as state name begins_with 'a' state name begins_with 'c' vs state name begins_with 'd'.

This release includes several enhancements to all geo charts:

Denodo connections now support OAuth. For details, see Configure OAuth for a Denodo connection.

This release brings improvements in how ThoughtSpot handles user tokens for Snowflake connections configured with Snowflake OAuth. If a user’s refresh token becomes invalid, the administrator or author of the connection can now run the Invalidate Tokens command to allow the user to re-authenticate and regain access to the insights provided by the connection, and the connection itself. Also, in this release the Role field has been added to the Snowflake OAuth connection details page, allowing a role to be added when the connection is created and changed when a connection is edited.

Now you have a quick and easy way to complete one-time data loads of small files that are not present in your cloud data warehouse. You can now upload a CSV file to the database of your Snowflake connection that can be joined to other tables or Worksheets in your connection. Once your administrator enables this feature, go to Data > Utilities, and click Upload CSV.

In this release, ThoughtSpot switched to a new, industry-standard cloud authentication method through Okta. ThoughtSpot now powers its internal authentication with Okta, which is the industry-leading authentication platform. This change is internal and has no impact on customers. After we enable this feature by default, all user authentication will automatically use the internal Okta service.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

The new Liveboard experience is now GA and on by default. It contains multiple new features and feature enhancements. It is part of ThoughtSpot’s move to a new stack. To learn how to manage its enablement, refer to New Liveboard experience.

The following features are not available with the new Liveboard experience, but they are available in the classic experience. The new Liveboard experience is on by default, and users can turn it on or off individually from their profile. If you would like your company to be able to use these removed features, you can turn the new Liveboard experience off for your company from the Admin Console. Alternatively, if it is available in your environment, you can turn it on or off individually from your profile.

You can now import TML files that contain certain errors. During the import process, ThoughtSpot removes the part of the object that contains errors, and allows you to import the rest of the object. These errors include the following:

You can now make content easily available to your team members when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard. Use the Make this [Answer | Liveboard] discoverable checkbox that appears when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard to grant view access to your teammates. Any user who has access to the underlying data source (Worksheet, table, view), and is part of the same user group as the author of the content, will be able to discover and access the Answer or Liveboard in Search Answers.
Select this checkbox to publish your content in the list of relevant results when a teammate uses the Search Answers feature, or deselect to keep your content private.

You can now delete Answers and Liveboards directly from the list on the home page, as well as from the Answers and Liveboards tabs. To delete an Answer or Liveboard from the home page, scroll down the list or search tags and author name to select the object name. After selecting the checkbox to the left of the object name, click the Delete button that appears.

You can no longer select more than 100 data sources to search on when searching data. This maximum of 100 sources improves performance and limits timeouts due to the selection of too many sources.

In the data panel search bar, you can now search text and a list of columns separated by one of the following delimiters: comma (,), period (.), backslash (\), dash (-), underscore (_), or space. If all of your search words find a match with column name words then it is considered as a match.

This release includes the following improvements to the dbt integration:

Denodo is now supported as a connection. See Denodo.

You can now edit tags for tables, Worksheets, views, and SQL views from the Data workspace home page. Refer to Use tags to organize.

ThoughtSpot now supports AWS PrivateLink for Denodo connections. ThoughtSpot encrypts all your data by default. For an additional layer of security and network reliability, you can use an AWS PrivateLink.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

When you download a table in XLSX format, the downloaded table now shows the same column width and date formatting as the table in ThoughtSpot. Refer to Download your search.

The Edit button for Liveboards in the new Liveboard experience is now more discoverable. We moved it out of the more menu and into the main Liveboard menu. It is now at the upper right of the Liveboard.

You can now use the Monitor feature to receive alerts when your KPI satisfies a given threshold condition. For example, create a condition to receive an alert when your Sales KPI becomes greater than 200,000, or when your KPI for Sales weekly increases by 2%. For more information, see Create a threshold-based alert.

You can now make content easily available to your team members when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard. Use the Make this [Answer | Liveboard] discoverable checkbox that appears when you save or share an Answer or Liveboard to grant view access to your teammates. Any user who has access to underlying data source (Worksheet, table, view) and is part of the same user group as the author of the content, will be able to discover and access the Answer in Search Answers.
Select this checkbox to publish your content in the list of relevant results when a teammate uses the Search Answers feature, or deselect to keep your content private.

To help you construct Answers based on the most relevant time data, ThoughtSpot now supports session-level ranking of Date columns in Search. For example, when you add a date column such as promotion date to your search, then the promotion date column rises to the top of Search completion suggestions for the duration of your session. Any time keywords you add to your search, such as monthly, will automatically filter based on the promotion date column, rather than sale date, or other possibilities.

The new Data Workspace is now GA and on by default. It redesigns the Data section of the product. To access it, select Data from the top navigation bar. The redesign introduces several new features, such as SQL-based views, dbt integration, and SpotApps, and makes the UI more intuitive.

SQL-based views are now GA and on by default. Users can create views based on custom SQL queries, and use those views as data sources. This type of view has the same functionality as a view based on searching your data.

The dbt integration is now GA and on by default. You can provide your existing dbt models and automatically create Worksheets in ThoughtSpot that you can use to perform searches on your data. Integration with dbt is certified only for Snowflake connections in 8.5.0.cl.

You can now use Okta as your authorization server for external OAuth. For details, see Configure Okta OAuth for a Snowflake connection.

ThoughtSpot now supports querying external tables in data stores, after you create these tables in your Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, or Snowflake environments.

ThoughtSpot now supports AWS PrivateLink for several new data warehouse connections. ThoughtSpot encrypts all your data by default. For an additional layer of security and network reliability, you can use an AWS PrivateLink. This option is now available for the following new data warehouse connections:

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

This release introduces the ability for admins to specify a standard footer to add to all Liveboard and Answer downloads. Use this functionality to add a confidentiality disclaimer, for example.

This release introduces several new SpotApps. ThoughtSpot maps your data from external applications, such as HubSpot, to SpotApp columns, and creates pre-built but still customizable Worksheets, Answers, and Liveboards, based on your data.

We now support more detailed geographic maps for France. You can now create maps based on postal codes, as well as region and city name. For more information, see Geo map reference.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

The new Liveboard experience is now available. It contains multiple new features and feature enhancements. It is part of ThoughtSpot’s move to a new stack. To learn how to enable it, refer to New Liveboard experience.

The following features are not available with the new Liveboard experience, but they are available in the classic experience. The new Liveboard experience is on by default, and users can turn it on or off individually from their profile. If you would like your company to be able to use these removed features, you can turn the new Liveboard experience off for your company from the Admin Console. Alternatively, if it is available in your environment, you can turn it on or off individually from your profile.

ThoughtSpot now offers an integration with dbt. You can provide your existing dbt models and automatically create Worksheets in ThoughtSpot that you can use to perform searches on your data.

This release introduces the Jira Issue Management SpotApp. ThoughtSpot maps your Jira data to SpotApp columns, and creates pre-built but still customizable Worksheets, Answers, and Liveboards, based on your data.

The new SpotIQ experience is now available. The functionality remains the same, but we reorganized the UI to make it more intuitive. The new experience is on by default. You can manage your individual SpotIQ experience from your profile. Note that the new SpotIQ experience is dependent on the new Answer experience; to use the new SpotIQ experience, you must first enable the new Answer experience. For more information, refer to SpotIQ analysis.

When you search across existing Answers and Liveboards, ThoughtSpot now offers suggestions based on Liveboards and Answers you recently viewed or interacted with, not just popular objects. This allows you to quickly return to an object you were working on or looking at in a previous session.

You can now open Search data in a new tab by right-clicking on the Search data option in the top navigation bar.

With this release, you can track Key Performance Indicators more easily, and tailor conditional formatting to suit your business use cases.

ThoughtSpot now supports scheduled alerts for changes in Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in your data. From the Monitor tab, you can view and manage all KPI alerts you create or subscribe to. For more information, see Monitor Key Performance Indicators in your data.

Databricks connections now support OAuth. See Configure OAuth for a Databricks connection.

In this release, the 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 on-prem database connections. For details, see Oracle.

In the release, Dremio is a new connection type. For details, see Dremio. Dremio supports OAuth. For details, see Configure OAuth for a Dremio connection.

Advanced data encryption at rest is now GA. ThoughtSpot provides advanced data encryption at rest (EAR) that allows for granular user and folder level controls for encrypting your persistent data.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

SpotApps are ThoughtSpot’s new out-of-the-box solution templates built for specific use cases and data sources. They are built on Blocks, which are pre-built pieces of code that are easy to download and implement directly from the product. This release introduces the Analytics Blocks and the ServiceNow and Snowflake SpotApps. Analytics Blocks include pre-built Worksheet, Answer, and Liveboard Blocks.

This release introduces beta support for SQL-based views. Users can create views based on custom SQL queries, and use those views as data sources. This type of view has the same functionality as a view based on searching your data.

This release redesigns the Data section of the product. The new Data Workspace is still in the same place in the product. To access it, select Data from the top navigation bar. The redesign introduces several new features, such as SQL-based views and SpotApps, and makes the UI more intuitive.

If your pivot table contains multiple measures with long names, the column header now has a horizontal scroll bar, so you can see all your measures without taking up excessive space in the pivot table.

When using a group aggregate formula in a Search, you can now view the results grouped at the level of detail specified in your aggregation formula.

You can now use HTML 5 in titles and descriptions for Answers and visualizations within Liveboards. For example, you can add a clickable link to a word or phrase in a description, or italicize part of an Answer title.

If you have the new redesigned data tab enabled, you can see the new Data Workspace page from the Data tab in the top navigation bar. To start creating a connection, click Connections, then click the connection type you want to create. The new Data Workspace allows you to create a connection without selecting tables or columns.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

The reset button allows you to reset a saved Answer to its last saved state after you edit it. This buttons appears to the right of the search bar in a saved Answer, next to the undo and redo buttons. Note that the reset button is only available for saved Answers.

When you search for a measure with a time-related keyword (for example, Sales weekly), you can now create sparkline visualizations of your data’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). For more information, see Sparkline visualizations for time-series KPIs.

Synapse connections now support OAuth. See Configure OAuth for an Azure Synapse connection.

ThoughtSpot Cloud is now available in Japan. See ThoughtSpot Cloud requirements and support.

ThoughtSpot provides advanced data encryption at rest (EAR) that allows for granular user and folder level controls for encrypting your persistent data. EAR is currently a beta feature. To enable EAR in your environment, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

The new Answer experience is now GA and on by default. The new Answer experience contains the following features:

The following features are not available with the new Answer experience. The new Answer experience is GA and on by default, but the option to turn it on or off individually is on by default. If you would like your company to be able to use these removed features, you can turn the new Answer experience off for your company by contacting ThoughtSpot Support. Alternatively, you can turn it on or off individually from your profile.

ThoughtSpot now combines the Liveboard follow and Liveboard Schedule features into a single action called "Schedule." To create a new schedule to receive an email containing a pdf of your Liveboard, users now select the Schedule button to the left of the more options menu .

You can now navigate to the Search answers and Liveboards page from anywhere within ThoughtSpot. To search Answers and Liveboards, select Search answers and Liveboards from the top navigation bar.

ThoughtSpot now supports scheduled alerts for changes in Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in your data. You can use the Monitor function to schedule notifications for your KPIs on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. From the Monitor tab, you can view and manage all KPI alerts you create or subscribe to. For more information, see Monitor Key Performance Indicators in your data.

You can now create visualizations of your data’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). For more information, see KPI charts.

ThoughtSpot now supports use of the VMware Workspace One browser for the ThoughtSpot Mobile App. ThoughtSpot supports all versions of VMware Workspace One.

When a new user uses Search Data, ThoughtSpot intelligently selects a data source for them to search on. ThoughtSpot chooses the most popular data source in the cluster that the user has access to. This allows users to begin to search data easily, without looking through all the existing data sources on their cluster.

ThoughtSpot now supports Search Answers in Japanese.

ThoughtSpot now supports secure access from ThoughtSpot Cloud to your data in Snowflake on Azure, through your OpenVPN server. ThoughtSpot supports the following OpenVPN server implementations:

ThoughtSpot now supports the OpenID Connect authentication framework for your ThoughtSpot Cloud instances. OIDC adds an identity layer to the OAuth 2.0 protocol and allows clients to verify a user’s identity based on the authentication performed by an authorization server.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

In this release, we introduced new functions for computing time intervals between two dates. In addition to the existing diff_days and diff_time functions, you can now use diff_years, diff_quarters, diff_months, diff_weeks, diff_hours, and diff_minutes to calculate time intervals at these additional granularities.

We simplified the steps to create Search visualizations during Setup. Now, you can select measures, attributes and date columns and immediately view suggested Answers and visualizations. For more information, see Create Answers in Setup.

ThoughtSpot increased the duration of idle session timeouts and the maximum session validity, when you click Remember me on the login screen. There is no change to the duration when you do not click Remember me.

Search suggestions are now GA. When you search across existing Answers and Liveboards, ThoughtSpot now offers search suggestions in the search bar, based on your past searches and popular searches in your environment, in addition to object suggestions. For example, if you type Sal in the search bar, it might now result in search suggestions like Sales and Sales this year, in addition to object suggestions like an existing Liveboard called Sales in the east last year.

Snowflake now supports external OAuth through Microsoft Azure AD. See Configure Azure AD external OAuth for a Snowflake connection.

ThoughtSpot now supports 2 methods to increase the duration of validity for your SAML assertion: the SessionNotOnOrAfter attribute and the maxAuthenticationAge parameter. You can ask ThoughtSpot to disable either one of these checks. If you use both, and either check fails, ThoughtSpot does not authenticate the user. Some IDPs do not support use of SessionNotOnOrAfter. If your IDP does not support use of SessionNotOnOrAfter, remove that attribute from your IDP assertion and ask ThoughtSpot Support to enable maxAuthenticationAge.

You can now configure SAML SSO login for more than one Identity Provider (IDP). You may have multiple groups of users who need to sign in to ThoughtSpot but are managed by separate IDPs. To configure this, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

ThoughtSpot now supports secure access from ThoughtSpot Cloud to your data in Google BigQuery and Azure Synapse, through your OpenVPN server. ThoughtSpot supports the following OpenVPN server implementations:

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Gating conditions for scheduled Liveboards are now GA. Refer to Schedule a Liveboard job to learn more about scheduling Liveboards for email delivery, and how to leverage gating conditions so that ThoughtSpot only sends the Liveboards when certain conditions are true.

We added support for regional councils, cities and districts, and postcodes, for New Zealand. See Geo Map Reference.

Custom calendar is now available, and it supports the Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure Synapse, and Databricks cloud data warehouses. See Custom calendar.

This release improves the UI and user experience of the user profile.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

The How Users are Searching Answers Liveboard allows administrators, and users they share the Liveboard with, to understand how users are searching for existing Answers and Liveboards. Starting in the September release, ThoughtSpot automatically emails this Liveboard to administrators once a week. You can add or remove users from this email list by editing the follow schedule for this Liveboard.

We added support for regions, municipalities, and postal codes, for Denmark. See Geo Map Reference.

This release introduces a new in-product learning initiative. Sets of learning cards appear when you first view an Answer or search result after updating to the September release. These cards teach new users about ThoughtSpot, and how to gain insights from searches and Answers. If you exit the learning cards by clicking the Hide or x button, you can always get them back by clicking on “learning mode on” from the profile menu.

You can now move metrics on your home page watchlist using drag and drop. Click on a metric, and move it to a different position in your watchlist.

When you search across existing Answers and Liveboards, ThoughtSpot now offers search suggestions in the search bar, based on your past searches and popular searches in your environment, in addition to object suggestions. For example, if you type Sal into the search bar, it might now result in search suggestions like Sales and Sales this year, in addition to object suggestions like an existing Liveboard called Sales in the east last year.

ThoughtSpot has renamed Embrace to Connections. Functionality remains the same. To access your connections, navigate to the Data tab and click Connections. For more information, see Connections.

ThoughtSpot now supports the configuration of a custom domain or multiple domains for your ThoughtSpot Cloud URL. By default, the base URL is <your_company_name>.thoughtspot.cloud. This feature allows you to request a different URL or multiple URLs, such as analytics.<your_company_name>.com. This is useful when embedding ThoughtSpot pages with TS Everywhere, so that your embedding application and the ThoughtSpot pages have the same base URL. If you are embedding ThoughtSpot in multiple environments, such as a staging environment and a production environment, these multiple domains can point to the same ThoughtSpot instance.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

There are several new features for the metrics watchlist on your ThoughtSpot home page:

You can now specify a minimum and maximum value for measures on the x-axis of scatter and bubble charts. For more information on how to add a minimum and maximum value to a chart axis, refer to Change axis options.

ThoughtSpot is dropping support for the following feature in the August Cloud release. This feature is not available in the August release:

The Credit Usage Liveboard, a Liveboard for monitoring your credit consumption under the consumption-based pricing model, is now accessible from the Admin Console, under Billing  Credit consumption.

When configuring SAML authentication for ThoughtSpot, it is now mandatory to map the mail attribute in the IDP metadata file to the email address of the user. If your company cannot meet this requirement, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, refer to configure SAML.

This release allows admins to enable or disable table column summaries for users on the new Answer experience, from the Search & SpotIQ section of the admin console. By default, table column summaries are on. This does not affect the display of summaries for users on the classic Answer experience.

This release improves the UI and user experience of the Help customization section of the admin console.

The first user on the account has to complete a series of steps before other people can start using ThoughtSpot with your organization’s data. For these instructions, see Getting Started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

You can now perform conditional formatting on measures in pivot tables. Refer to Apply conditional formatting and Pivot tables.

For embedded ThoughtSpot environments, you can now generate links with your host application context and send these links in email notifications. You can specify the link format when sharing an object or scheduling a Liveboard job to ensure that the links sent in the email notifications go to the appropriate URL. Refer to Share Answers and Schedule a Liveboard job for more information.

We simplified the steps to set up an analyst account on ThoughtSpot. Now, you can create a connection, create a Worksheet to model your business use cases, and immediately search your data in three steps. See Analyst Onboarding for further details.

This release improves support for group aggregate query filters when seeking finer-grained results by adding a secondary dimension, or courser-grained results when dropping one of the existing dimensions. You can now also include or drop the filter condition. Refer to Aggregation filters for more information.

You can now see the view counts for trending Answers and Liveboards on the home page. This can help you understand why an object is trending.

You can now open trending objects in a new tab by right-clicking on the object link on the home page. Refer to Home page for more information.

Databricks is now GA in this release of ThoughtSpot Cloud. For more information, refer to Databricks.

This release introduces a new default Liveboard for monitoring object usage. The Object Usage Liveboard contains data on the following topics:

ThoughtSpot provides 2 default system Answers to help you track and analyze your credit consumption. These Answers allow you to dive deeper into the credit consumption and activities of a specific user, or over a specific time window.

This release introduces new administrator privileges that separate the abilities of the administrator into 4 specific privileges. For example, you can allow certain users to create and manage users, while not allowing them to manage SAML integration or other advanced settings. These new administrator privileges do not provide access to all data in ThoughtSpot, unlike the Can administer ThoughtSpot privilege. Users with the new privileges can only see data that others share with them. The Can administer ThoughtSpot privilege, which encompasses all 4 new administrator privileges, still appears as an option by default. To remove it, contact ThoughtSpot Support. The 4 new privileges are:

This release of ThoughtSpot Cloud enables your security team to collect security audit events based on user activity and ship them to your SIEM application in real-time. You can view logs for the following events:

This release improves the UI and user experience of the Scheduled maintenance section of the admin console.

The ThoughtSpot developer portal now supports designating a custom action as a global or local action. This feature allows you to determine and control the placement of custom actions in the ThoughtSpot UI. Developers can now choose to create a custom action that will appear on all visualizations or a specific custom action that can be added to a particular visualization by a ThoughtSpot user. A custom actions panel in the visualization pages allows ThoughtSpot users to view the available custom actions and add an action to any visualization. For example, if you want an action that triggers a callback into your parent app, which would then post its data to Slack, you might want to add a custom action globally to all visualizations. Similarly, if you want to send the data obtained from a specific visualization to a URL, you can associate a custom action locally to that visualization. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

You can now apply an authentication scheme for custom actions that trigger a data payload to a specific URL target. If a custom action requires your users to authenticate to send data to a URL, you can specify the authentication method and authorization attributes when creating a custom action in the Developer portal. ThoughtSpot will use this authentication information to send the required attributes in the Authorization headers to the URL endpoint configured in the custom action. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

ThoughtSpot users with edit privileges can now define or modify the position of a custom action on visualization pages. When a developer creates a custom action in the Developer portal, ThoughtSpot adds a menu item to the More menu by default. ThoughtSpot users can change this to a context menu action or a primary action at any time. If your application instance requires an action that sends only a single row of data from charts or tables, developers can configure a custom action and restrict it to only the contextual menu. If this setting is enabled on a custom action, ThoughtSpot users cannot modify this action on a visualization page. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

ThoughtSpot generates links to access objects, such as Liveboards, visualizations, and search Answers, when a user shares an object with another user or follows a Liveboard to receive periodic notifications. If you have embedded ThoughtSpot in your application, you might want to generate these links in the format that preserves your host application context. For embedded instances, ThoughtSpot now allows you to customize the format of these links in the Developer portal. The Link Settings page in the Developer portal allows you to customize the link format for various resource URLs and the unsubscribe link sent in email notifications. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud June release introduces the following REST APIs:

Search Assist Coach enables Analysts, or anyone who has edit access to a Worksheet, to create Search Assist sample queries based on their company data. This gives all users the opportunity to experience onboarding and training on data that is relevant to their work, and specific to their line of business.

You can now use TML to import, export, and update Worksheets with Search Assist Coach lessons. See Syntax of the Worksheet TML file.

You can now add important metrics to your watchlist and track them from the home page. Refer to Home page metrics.

When you search across existing Answers and Liveboards, ThoughtSpot now automatically selects the first result and opens the Details panel. This allows you to quickly glance at the details for the result that ThoughtSpot determines is most useful for you. You can see the metrics, groups, and filters for the Answer or Liveboard, and easily find out if that object answers your question.

This release improves indexing latency to less than 10 minutes (less than 5 in most cases), from 6 hours previously. Now, when you create, modify, or delete a new object, update user permissions, or otherwise make changes within ThoughtSpot, the product reflects these changes within 10 minutes.

ThoughtSpot is dropping support for several features in the May Cloud release. These features are not available in the May release. ThoughtSpot is also deprecating several features in the May Cloud release. These features are still available in the May release, but ThoughtSpot will drop support for them in a later release. Refer to Deprecation Announcements for more information.

In this release, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) is GA. For details, see Oracle ADW.

Embrace now supports both Starburst Enterprise, and open source Trino databases. For details, see Starburst.

Embrace now supports Databricks. This feature is in beta and disabled by default. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

This release introduces a new default Worksheet for monitoring product usage. The Product Usage Worksheet contains data on the following topics:

ThoughtSpot now allows you to add a custom action in the contextual menu for embedded visualizations in the Answers or Liveboards page. To add a custom action to the contextual menu, you must have the New Answer experience Beta (off by default) enabled on your cluster. For more information, see Custom Actions.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud May release introduces the Visual Embed SDK 1.2.0 version with a minor update and backward-compatible improvements.

The Visual Embed SDK packages now include the noRedirect attribute as an optional parameter for the SSO AuthType. If you want to display the SAML authentication workflow in a pop-up window, instead of refreshing the application web page to direct users to the SAML login page, you can set the noRedirect attribute to true. For more information, see the ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.

When a user accesses the embedded application from a web browser that has third-party cookies disabled, the Visual Embed SDK emits the NoCookieAccess event to notify the developer. Cookies are disabled by default in Safari. Users can enable third-party cookies in Safari’s Preferences setting page or use another web browser. To know how to enable this setting by default on Safari for a ThoughtSpot embedded instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

The More menu in the embedded Liveboard page now shows the following actions for Liveboard and visualizations.

This release introduces the following performance improvements for ThoughtSpot embedded applications:

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud May release introduces the following new REST APIs:

There are several enhancements to the Scriptability feature:

The Search on Answers Liveboard contains several new or updated visualizations, including Top search queries on existing Answers, Position at which users are clicking, and What results users are finding useful with autocomplete suggestions. These new visualizations provide more information about click position, what information users look for, and what information they cannot find. You can also view the best practices for this Liveboard.

This release redesigns the experience of creating and working with Answers. The new Answer experience contains multiple new features and feature enhancements. It is in beta and off by default, but the option to turn it on or off individually is on by default. You can toggle it on or off individually from the Experience manager in your profile, or for the whole company by contacting ThoughtSpot Support.

This release makes the Search Answers/ Search Data toggle sticky. ThoughtSpot now remembers your choice across sessions when you switch between Search Answers and Search Data.

This release improves indexing latency to less than 10 minutes, from 6 hours previously. Now, when you create, modify, or delete a new object, update user permissions, or otherwise make changes within ThoughtSpot, the product reflects these changes within 10 minutes. If you create a new Answer, users can search for and find it 10 minutes after you create it. This indexing improvement is in the process of rollout. If you don’t have it yet, ThoughtSpot will deploy it soon.

We added unicode character matching in Search Answers, extending support to all languages and character sets. You can now search all artifacts that use unicode characters in titles, descriptions, metadata, and keywords, and see the correct results.

To ensure a secure two-way data exchange between your cloud data warehouse and the ThoughtSpot Cloud tenant, you can use an AWS PrivateLink. This option is currently available for your Snowflake or Redshift data warehouse connections. Refer to the Redshift and Snowflake articles about enabling an AWS PrivateLink.

You can now grant groups the Developer privilege from the Admin Console, allowing users in those groups to access and use the Developer Portal. In the Developer Portal, users can explore the ThoughtSpot APIs and developer tools, and build web applications with ThoughtSpot content.

The new TML APIs enable you to programmatically export, validate, and import scriptable TML objects. Use these APIs to automate the change management and deployment processes between your development and production environments. With these APIs, analysts can much more easily migrate from one environment to the other by automating the entire change management process, reducing the risk of human error.

ThoughtSpot users with admin or developer privileges can now access the ThoughtSpot Developer portal by clicking the Develop tab in the ThoughtSpot application. The Developer portal, referred to as SpotDev in the earlier release, includes the following enhancements:

ThoughtSpot Visual Embed SDK is now available to all external users who want to embed ThoughtSpot content in their application, product, or web page.

The session REST API service now includes the /tspublic/v1/session/auth/token API to enable a client application to programmatically obtain an authentication token for a ThoughtSpot user.

Search Answers is now available for all customers. It is on by default. See Search Answers and Home page for more information.

You can now share multiple objects at a time from the home page. Refer to Home page.

The Details panel that appears when you click on a Liveboard visualization while searching across your existing Answers and Liveboards now lists frequent metrics and attributes for that Liveboard. You can determine if a Liveboard search result is useful for you based on the metrics and attributes used most often in that Liveboard.

You can now manage advanced search and SpotIQ settings from the Admin Console. You can configure column indexing and enable or disable SpotIQ Analyze and column summaries. Refer to Manage search and SpotIQ settings.

You can manage certain advanced settings for your organization from the Admin Console. You can customize welcome emails, scheduled emails, and the workflow that allows users to sign up for ThoughtSpot from the login page. Refer to Manage email and onboarding settings.

The Performance Tracking Liveboard is now accessible from the Admin Console. To view this Liveboard, navigate to the Admin Console by selecting Admin from the top navigation bar. Select App performance from the side navigation bar in the Admin Console.

ThoughtSpot cloud now includes the SpotDev portal in beta to allow developer users to explore the ThoughtSpot SDK APIs and build sample applications. The SpotDev tab in the ThoughtSpot application is available for the users with administrator and developer privileges. The SpotDev portal provides a playground for developers and product owners to evaluate the Visual Embed APIs and preview the results. The portal also allows authorized users to rebrand the embedded content, customize styles, and Custom Actions to the embedded instance. For more information, see ThoughtSpot Developer Portal.

This release makes creating and editing joins from a table more flexible and intuitive. Our new joins interface allows you to define and edit the join type and cardinality at the table level, where previously this was only possible at the Worksheet level. Refer to Table joins.

Use the new Liveboard Export API to programmatically download Liveboards, or specific visualizations from the Liveboards, as PDFs. Refer to REST API reference.

In this release, ThoughtSpot Cloud adds support for SpotIQ analyze. Now you can analyze any Answer, Liveboard visualization, or data source to generate instant insights, by clicking the SpotIQ analyze button . For more information, see Custom SpotIQ analysis.

You can now create and access quick links to your most-used Answers and Liveboards from the home page. Refer to Home page shortcuts.

ThoughtSpot browser support for Internet Explorer is now deprecated. Refer to ThoughtSpot browser access for a list of supported browsers.

ThoughtSpot Cloud is now available in the following 2 regions, in addition to US East (N. Virginia) and West (Oregon), Sydney, and Ireland:

There are several changes to the behavior of the How Users are Searching Answers Liveboard:

You can now limit or remove the options ThoughtSpot provides for downloading Liveboards and their visualizations. You can allow users to only download Liveboard visualizations in a specific format (such as .csv), or you can restrict access to downloading Liveboards and their visualizations altogether.
This is a cluster-level feature. You cannot configure permissions for specific users.
This is an embed-only feature. To enable this functionality, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

ThoughtSpot now offers consumption, or usage, based pricing. Refer to Consumption-based pricing. To compare consumption- and capacity-based pricing, refer to ThoughtSpot pricing.