July 2022 release notes

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: