Custom announcements

Custom announcements allow administrators to broadcast high-visibility, time-sensitive messages to users (e.g., system maintenance, data refreshes, or internal policy updates) across all pages of the application. They are banners displayed at the top of the ThoughtSpot application interface, across pages. Contact ThoughtSpot ThoughtSpot Support for enabling this feature.

Create an announcement

  1. Navigate to Admin settings > Home Page & App Experience.

    Home Page & App Experience landing page

  2. Click Edit.

    Create an announcement

  3. You can now select the Type of the announcement from the following options:

    • Information will show up in the color blue.

    • Warning will show up in the yellow.

    • Failure will show up in the red.

  4. Enter the description of the announcement in the text box provided for Caption. Maximum number of characters allowed in the caption is 80. Line breaks are not allowed.

  5. You can add an optional Link Label, and its aligning Link URL.

  6. Set a desired start and end time for the announcement. The timezone cannot be changed.

  7. At the bottom of this modal, you can see a preview of your announcement.

    Announcement Preview

  8. Once you have completed the announcement creation, click Save.

These announcements can be created for the entire ThoughtSpot instance at the All Orgs level or for a particular Org. They do not override each other, nor they obstruct the ThoughtSpot announcements. In case of multiple announcements:

  • ThoughtSpot system announcements (can be more than one). All ThoughtSpot announcements are shown first.

  • Announcements for the ThoughtSpot instance (can be only one). They come after the ThoughtSpot system announcements in order of precedence.

  • Per Org announcement (can be only one). After the announcement for All Orgs show the Org level announcement.

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