November 2023 release notes

These new and enhanced features of ThoughtSpot Cloud were released in November 2023.

ThoughtSpot Cloud 9.7.0.cl

For the Analyst

Personalized Liveboard views Early Access

Personalized views allow you to save your own set of values for filters and parameters in a Liveboard without editing the original Liveboard. You can change the values of the already present filters and parameters in a Liveboard to create a view, and save it for future use. The new Liveboard is a view of the master Liveboard, so any changes made to the master Liveboard flow automatically to the filtered Liveboard view but not vice-versa. This includes changes made to pinned visualizations, tabs, filter chips, and re-ordering.

Embedding in note tiles

Embedding in note tiles is now available to all users and is on by default. You can now embed interactive content such as videos, pdfs, or Figma files into Liveboards using the note tile format. To try it out, enter a Liveboard, select the edit icon, and select Add note from the top bar. You can then click the embed icon and enter the URL or iFrame code for your content. You can interact with the content embedded in a Liveboard like you would with a website. For more information, see Embedding content with iFrames.

System Variables in Answer and Worksheet formulas

Previously, ThoughtSpot supported the ts_username variable for use in row-level security formulas alone. Now, users can access the following string variables:

  • ts_orgname

  • ts_email_domain

ts_orgname, ts_username, and ts_email_domain variables are available to use in Answer and Worksheet formulas. These variables are helpful for data masking.

Request access to data source from filter

When creating a filter on a Liveboard or Answer, you must have access to the underlying data source. Users can now request access to the underlying Worksheet through the filter modal on a Liveboard or Answer. For more information, see Liveboard filters.

New data panel

The new data panel experience is available for all customers in this release, and is enabled by default. In this release, you can now filter data sources by how they are tagged.

For the Business User

Atlan Beta

You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Atlan. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, this information is visible to all users. This feature is in beta and off by default. To enable it, contact ThoughtSpot Support.
For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

Mobile enhancements

We made the following improvements to ThoughtSpot mobile:

  • We simplified the sign in process for the ThoughtSpot mobile app. You can now enter your company email to receive an email with a magic link login, rather than entering the server URL.

  • ThoughtSpot now supports IAMv2 login.

  • You can now change your ThoughtSpot locale through the Mobile app. When your locale is updated, ThoughtSpot translates labels, date formats and number formats to match the default for your country and language.

  • You can now use SpotIQ analysis to directly identify the key drivers for recent change in your KPIs in ThoughtSpot Mobile. KPI change analysis allows you to drill down into the causes of change in your KPIs and customize the insights generated by SpotIQ. To access this feature, go to your KPI chart and select the caret icon to the right of the percent change label. The Run change analysis pop-up allows you to customize the columns ThoughtSpot analyzes. Note that ThoughtSpot runs change analysis between the two most recent data points defined by the KPI’s time bucket (for example, daily or weekly).

  • We introduced improved deep linking to ThoughtSpot mobile. When you click a link you no longer need to choose whether you want to view the link in your default mobile browser or the ThoughtSpot app. The default behavior is to open the link in ThoughtSpot if it is supported.

  • You can now receive ThoughtSpot mobile push notifications. Receive push notifications when a Liveboard or Answer is shared with you. Monitor scheduled and threshold alerts with push notifications.

For the Data Engineer

Atlan data catalog Beta

You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Atlan into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Atlan to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, metadata information is visible to all users.

For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

SAP Hana Calculation view input parameters Beta

Now, you can define a parameter to link to the parameter in SAP Hana using TML at the table level, and create a linked_parameter clause to ensure the parameter is displayed in all Answers created from the table. For more information, see TML for tables and TML for Worksheets.

Key Pair authentication for Snowflake

We now support Key Pair authentication for Snowflake.

OAuth for Databricks using Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE)

We now support OAuth with PKCE for Databricks.

For the Developer

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

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