August 2022 release notes

These new and enhanced features of ThoughtSpot Cloud were released in August 2022.

ThoughtSpot Cloud 8.6.0.cl

For the Analyst

New Liveboard experience

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 Liveboard experience.

The new Liveboard experience contains the following new features:

  • Edit mode: To make changes to your Liveboard, such as moving a visualization or adding filters, you must be in edit mode. You do not need to enter edit mode to change the name of the Liveboard or Liveboard visualizations. To enter edit mode, select the Edit button at the upper right of the Liveboard. If this button is grayed out, you do not have edit privileges for the Liveboard. To resolve this, contact your administrator or the creator of the Liveboard.

  • [8.7.0.cl and later] Liveboard tabs: Separate your Liveboard into multiple tabs, grouping specific visualizations together in each tab.

  • [8.8.0.cl and later] Custom visualization sizes: Customize your Liveboard visualizations to be any size.

  • [9.0.0.cl and later] Mandatory Liveboard filters: 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.

  • Improved filters modal: We moved all filter configuration into one modal, where you can add filters, specify which visualizations the filters should apply to, and link columns from different Worksheets to create one Liveboard filter for visualizations that come from different Worksheets.

  • HTML in Liveboard titles and descriptions: Use HTML 5 in titles and descriptions for Liveboards. For example, you can add a clickable link to a word or phrase in a description, or italicize part of a Liveboard title.

  • Undo, redo, or reset buttons: Use the in-product undo, redo, and reset buttons to reset or go back or forward 1 step each time you make a change in a Liveboard visualization (for example, when you add a new column to the search, drill down, or sort). These buttons appear to the right of the title of a Liveboard visualization.

  • Copy visualization link in the more menu: Copy a direct link to a visualization within the Liveboard. Use this feature to share a specific Liveboard visualization. This feature moved from the Share visualization modal to the more menu. First, share the Liveboard. Then, select the more menu more options menu icon for the visualization, and select Copy link. This provides you with a link to the specific visualization within the Liveboard. You can send that link to the user you shared the Liveboard with.

  • Answer Explorer improvements: Answer Explorer now opens in the current state of the visualization. For example, if you drill down on a visualization, then open Answer Explorer, it opens in the drilled-down state. Answer Explorer now opens in a modal.

  • Visualization copy and edit improvements: When you copy and edit (now called make a copy) a Liveboard visualization, the copy now takes into account any Liveboard filters that applied to the original visualization.

  • [8.4.0.cl and later] Liveboard download footer: Administrators can specify a standard footer to add to all Liveboard downloads. Use this functionality to add a confidentiality disclaimer, for example.

  • Liveboard layout control: Users now have more control over the Liveboard layout when they move visualization tiles. Other tiles will not move unexpectedly.

Liveboard deprecations

The following features which were available previously in the classic Liveboard experience are no longer available in a Liveboard.

  • Share a visualization: The share button for a specific visualization within a Liveboard is no longer available. Instead, share the Liveboard. Then, click the more menu more options menu icon for the visualization, and select Copy link. This provides you with a link to the specific visualization within the Liveboard. You can send that link to the user you shared the Liveboard with.

  • Switch between Liveboards from the Liveboard title: This feature allowed you to select a Liveboard title and view a list of other recently edited Liveboards that you could select. Instead, navigate between Liveboards from your home page, or the Liveboard list page.

  • Copy embed link: The Copy embed link option in the more menu more options menu icon for the Liveboard or a visualization is no longer available. Instead, use the SDK for embedding purposes.

  • Change title menu option: The Change title option in the more menu more options menu icon for a visualization is no longer available. Instead, to make changes to the Liveboard, you must be in edit mode. To enter edit mode, select the Edit button at the upper right of the Liveboard. Then, select the visualization title or description to edit it inline.

  • Liveboard edit icon: The Liveboard edit icon edit icon image next to the Liveboard name, for editing the Liveboard name or description, is no longer available. Instead, to make changes to the Liveboard, you must be in edit mode. To enter edit mode, select the Edit button at the upper right of the Liveboard. If this button is grayed out, you do not have edit privileges for the Liveboard. To resolve this, contact your administrator or the creator of the Liveboard.

  • Edit an Answer in Liveboard present mode: This feature allowed users to select the edit icon edit icon image while presenting a Liveboard, and directly edit the Answer. Instead, exit Present mode, and edit the Answer.

TML import improvements

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:

  • Some Liveboard visualizations contain errors, but the overall Liveboard is valid: ThoughtSpot removes the visualizations that contain errors and imports the Liveboard.

  • Some Liveboard filters contain errors, but the overall Liveboard is valid: ThoughtSpot removes the filters that contain errors and imports the Liveboard.

  • Destination tables for some joins in a table do not exist, but the overall table is valid: ThoughtSpot removes the joins that do not have destination tables and imports the table.

Refer to Migrate an object.

For the Business User

Discoverable Answers and Liveboards Beta

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.

Delete objects from home page

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.

Choose sources limitation

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.

Data panel multi-word search

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.

For the Data Engineer

Integration with dbt improvements

This release includes the following improvements to the dbt integration:

  • Integration with dbt for Databricks connections

  • Import of multiple folders at a time

  • Import of a single table within a folder

  • Support for joins across multiple folders

Denodo for Connections

Denodo is now supported as a connection. See Denodo.

Edit tags from the Data workspace

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

For the IT Ops Engineer

For the Developer

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

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