November 2022 release notes

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

ThoughtSpot Cloud 8.9.0.cl

For the Analyst

Custom sizes for visualizations in Liveboards

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.

Visualization GUID support in TML files

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.

Pinboard to Liveboard change in TML

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

For more information, see Syntax of the Liveboard TML file.

For the Business User

ThoughtSpot Sync Salesforce connection Beta

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

Discoverable Answers and Liveboards

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.

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.

Edit your display name

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.

For the Data Engineer

Tag enhancements

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

  • Add tags to multiple objects at a time

  • Administrators can create new tags from the Edit tags modal

For more information, see Apply a tag and Create a tag.

Query banding with Teradata connections

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.

SQL Server with Synapse connections

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

For the IT/Ops Engineer

High Availability

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.

Billable Query Stats Liveboard

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.

For the Developer

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

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