April 2024 release notes

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.