February 2024 release notes

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 Spotter in Slack.

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.