ThoughtSpot Software Documentation

November 2026 26.9.0.sw

Editing an Answer in a Liveboard is now generally available (GA). This feature adds an Edit button to the Answer toolbar in a Liveboard in edit mode. Click Edit to open the Edit Answer page, where you can modify columns, filters, and formulas. You can save or cancel changes without leaving the Liveboard.

For more information, see Edit an Answer from your Liveboard.

The new About menu item in the Help menu is now generally available (GA). This feature allows you to see the Cluster ID, Version, and Cluster Timezone for your cluster.

Advanced controls for KPI charts are now generally available (GA). You can now:

For more information, see KPI charts.

ThoughtSpot introduces more granular controls for KPI charts. You can now:

For more information, see Advanced KPI display options.

ThoughtSpot introduces a new focused home page experience option. The focused home page delivers a streamlined, contemporary experience for users that highlights the Spotter experience. Administrators can manage the home page version for all Orgs when the feature is enabled. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Focused home page.

ThoughtSpot introduces the option to add a custom note tile to the home page where administrators can communicate important information, such as scheduled maintenance or new features to their users. This feature is generally available (GA).

For more information, see Custom home page announcement.

The new charts library is now generally available (GA) and is the default charting experience in ThoughtSpot. These new charts unlock sophisticated visualizations like faceted, cross-tabbed, multivariate, and bullet charts. They also resolve previous limitations by allowing multiple columns in line column charts and slicing by color with multiple measures, while providing deeper granular control over configurations such as tooltips, data labels, and axes.

In this release, we introduce the following new charts:

For more information, see New chart library.

+ Important: The new charts will be enabled gradually across all customer instances over a period of several weeks following the release. After your instance is upgraded to 26.7.0.cl, the new charts may not be available immediately. In that case, your instance will receive the update automatically as the rollout progresses.

You can now encode a continuous measure, like profit margin or revenue, as a color gradient directly in the following charts in the new charts library:

Instead of building a separate chart or data table to surface a second variable, you can enable a gradient legend on any measure column and optionally set a "Vary by" measure to drive the color scale independently of the displayed value. This makes it faster to spot outliers, patterns, and directional trends at a glance. Hovering over a data point shows the exact value of the "Vary by" measure in the tooltip.

For more information, see Gradient legends.

The command palette is now generally available (GA). You can now access anything in ThoughtSpot from a single keystroke. The command palette (kbd:[Cmd] + kbd:[K] on Mac / kbd:[Ctrl] + kbd:[K] on Windows and Linux) is a global command center that unifies navigation, search, and actions across the ThoughtSpot platform. Instead of switching between menus, list pages, and contextual controls, you can find content, trigger workflows, and navigate to any part of the product — all from one place.

With the command palette, you can:

We made the following improvements in this release:

The continuous Liveboard PDF experience is now generally available (GA). This feature eliminates page breaks and preserves the layout of the original Liveboard, ensuring the exported PDF remains true to the on-screen experience. For more information, see Download a Liveboard.

You can now configure dynamic date type parameters when creating parameters, meaning that you can specify a dynamic rule like "start of current month", which updates with the current date rather than remaining static (for example, "June 14th"). For more information, see Creating parameters.

ThoughtSpot now allows you to keep parts of a Model in sync with the underlying tables in the cloud data warehouse (CDW). Previously, as tables from the CDW were updated with new information from the CDW, it would cause the link for some column properties from the table to the Model to break. If there were multiple Models on the same table, for changes like renaming a column or updating a description, you would have to go into each Model and update the values individually. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see Model column property sync.

Administrators can now manage and remove parameterization on tables and connections directly from the ThoughtSpot UI when publishing is enabled. From the tables or Connections page, administrators can remove variable bindings from one or more objects or use the new Manage Parameters option to view, edit, add, or remove individual field-to-variable mappings without starting over. To use this feature, publishing must be enabled by ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Unparameterize metadata objects.

ThoughtSpot introduces support for exporting pivot tables in XLSX format. This feature ensures that pivot tables retain their full visual formatting and structural integrity when exported as XLSX files from a Liveboard. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Pivot tables in Liveboard exports.

Models are now fully discoverable through ThoughtSpot’s unified search. Whether you’re using the global search bar or the search results page, Models appear alongside Answers and Liveboards — making it faster and easier to find the data foundation your analyses are built on. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

ThoughtSpot introduces sets at the Answer level to answer query-on-query questions by generating and consuming Query sets within a single Answer flow. Users with edit permissions on an Answer can view and modify the associated Sets.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Answer-level sets.

The export of high-resolution PNG images of Liveboards is now generally available (GA). You can now export improved high resolution PNG images of Liveboards. Previously, PNG exports were PDF reports in a PNG format created by taking a rolling screenshot of the PDF report generated in a headless browser.

ThoughtSpot introduces aggregate-aware query execution. This is a transparent query optimization feature where Search Data automatically switches from detailed Models to associated aggregate Models. This provides a mechanism to manage and reduce cloud costs and improve query latency while maintaining insight accuracy. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Aggregate-aware Model switching.

Aggregate-aware query execution is now generally available (GA). Search data automatically switches from detailed Models to associated aggregate Models based on query granularity, reducing cloud costs and improving query latency without affecting insight accuracy.For more information, see Aggregate-aware query execution.

The Admin portal now preserves your navigation state across browser refreshes and through back and forward navigation. This feature is generally available (GA). Previously, a refresh dropped you back to a default screen and the back button exited the Admin portal entirely. This could be especially disruptive for cluster admins working across All Orgs and Primary Org view modes. Now the browser URL is the source of truth for the active admin tab, screen, and Org context. This means that you can link and bookmark admin pages so that they are restored exactly where you left off after a refresh.

The Command Palette (⌘K / Spotlight) has also been extended so every admin screen is searchable with sub-tab path labels navigable directly from the ⌘K overlay.

The centralized filter window is now generally available (GA). This feature introduces a single, unified interface for managing all Liveboard filters. Users can use this to view, update, and apply multiple filters at once, rather than interacting with each filter individually. This feature supports bulk filter changes, clear and reset actions, and provides a streamlined workflow for complex analyses. This improves efficiency, especially when working with Liveboards containing many filters or when users need to adjust several dimensions simultaneously. For more information, see Centralized filter window.

Variables are now generally available (GA). ThoughtSpot introduces variables to allow you to substitute values for specific properties of an object and enable dynamic data propagation across Orgs in ThoughtSpot. You can create variables of the following types: table mapping, connection property, and formula variable. In addition, you can delete, search, edit, and rename the variables. Note that you can create variables in ThoughtSpot, or by using APIs. If you are using APIs, you can also create connection property per principle variables. To create variables using APIs, see Custom variables. To create variables in ThoughtSpot, see Create variables.

ThoughtSpot introduces Snowflake Semantic Views integration. This allows you to import external semantic model definitions from Snowflake Semantic Views that are then converted into fully functional, native ThoughtSpot Models. This eliminates the need to manually recreate Models and ensures consistency. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Integrate with Snowflake Semantic Views.

You can now resync Snowflake Semantic Views integrations when the Snowflake semantic model or uploaded definition changes. Administrators can manage and resync Semantic Views as needed to reflect changes made in Snowflake. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Integrate with Snowflake Semantic Views.

ThoughtSpot introduces the following enhancements to the Snowflake semantic integration experience:

To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see snowflake-semantic-integration.adoc.

You can now add a Scheduled Liveboards process type to a connection configuration, so scheduled Liveboard queries can use a separate warehouse, credentials, or non-OAuth authentication method instead of the parent connection’s defaults.

Look for the new Scheduled Liveboards checkbox under the Processes policy type in Connection Configuration, alongside the existing Row count stats option.

For more information, see Add a Snowflake connection, Add a Databricks connection, and Add a Google BigQuery connection.

You can now use data to drive the outline (border) color of chart markers such as bars, arcs, and points. Bind a field to the outline color encoding to automatically generate an ordinal color palette or a continuous gradient, complete with legend and tooltip support. Outline width and dash style remain configurable per data point. Existing outline configurations are fully backward compatible. For more information, see Chart marker styles.

ThoughtSpot now renders a horizontal scrollbar across all chart types. For pivot tables, this removes the previous row-header column width cap, so attribute labels render at their full natural width instead of being truncated. The scrollbar behavior is consistent across chart types and viewport sizes. For more information, see Understanding charts.

The Model sharing enhancement is now Early Access. When you share a Model with Edit access, the system automatically grants View access to all underlying tables and Views referenced by that Model. This eliminates the need to manually share access to dependent objects, significantly reducing the effort required to manage permissions and ensuring a smoother sharing experience. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Share Models.

Suggestion settings are now generally available (GA). We have added the Suggestion Settings column to Models. This is used in conjunction with row-level security to ensure that values displayed in sample values and Spotter flows are secured.

Where columns require that strict row-level security is applied to sample values and Spotter, then set the Suggestion Settings column as Secure Suggestions.

For more information, see Suggestion settings.

Column security rules are generally available (Opt-in) in this release. Column security rules (CSR) let you restrict access to sensitive columns without the complexity of managing per-column shares.

Mark a column as protected and assign group access through the new Manage access panel — users who do not belong to an assigned group cannot see the protected column in search, Answers, or Liveboards, even if the table is shared with them. Protection is automatically inherited by Model and view columns derived from a protected base column. CSR coexists with the existing column-level security model — enabling CSR does not affect your current configuration. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Column security rules.

ThoughtSpot now protects user-created personalized views when you migrate Liveboard TML across environments. Previously, importing an updated Liveboard TML from a development environment would overwrite all views in production, including those created by end users. The username and the email of the owner of each view is now displayed in the Liveboard TML so administrators can see who owns each view, and can transfer ownership by editing that info in the Liveboard TML. Personalized views now also have Object IDs, similar to tables and model references in the Liveboard TML. With this release, ThoughtSpot uses a smart merge approach. Smart merge is only possible using the TML import APIs. Using the API, you can opt in to smart merge by passing a new field as TRUE. The UI will continue to show the original merge logic. Views that exist only in production are preserved, new views from the source TML are added, and views present in both are updated. For more information, see Import and export TML files.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

To take more control over how ThoughtSpot translates content for users in other locales, you can manually upload a CSV containing translations of terms and labels in Liveboards and Answers. These translated terms appear in ThoughtSpot automatically when a user in the defined locale language opens the Liveboard or Answer. For more information, see Manual translation.

You can now set variables in row-level security as TS_WILDCARD_ALL, which grants access to the data, and TS_WILDCARD_NONE, which denies access. Previously, ThoughtSpot only supported the TS_WILDCARD_ALL designation, and you had to set the variable as a value or list of values to control access.

For more information, see Tenant-based column aliasing.

Aliasing dimension and fact tables is now generally available (GA). Previously, table aliases were only supported for role-playing dimensions, or when a single physical dimension is referenced multiple times in a fact table, with each reference linking to a logically distinct role for the dimension. Now, we support table aliases for chasm trap models, and aliasing the primary fact table. Note that data security (row-level and column-level security) applies to the aliased table as well as the original table. We also now support progressive filters for table aliases.

For more information, see Role-playing dimensions.

Admin users can now specify to skip indexing for tables of a certain size. By default, ThoughtSpot does not set a limit on the size of tables it indexes. You can choose to Index all tables, Disable indexing for tables with ≥ 100M rows, Disable indexing for tables with ≥ 250M rows, or Disable indexing for tables it ≥ 1B rows.

For more information, see Managing search and SpotIQ settings.

Publishing from the primary Org is now generally available (GA). Publishing allows you to create an object in the Primary Org and publish it directly to target Orgs without generating duplicate copies. You can also unpublish objects across Orgs.

For more information, see Publishing objects between Orgs.

You can now include the current period within a date filter chip, when selecting a rolling date filter. This allows you to define a date range such as "last two months, including this month." This rolling date filters enhancement applies to both Liveboard and Answer filters.

For more information, see Date filters.

You can now add objects to Collections directly from your Answers, Liveboards, and Data list pages without navigating to the Collections page, by clicking on Add to Collections at the top of the list page.

For more information, see Add objects to a Collection.

Collections are now generally available (GA). Collections in ThoughtSpot are organizational containers that can group and manage different ThoughtSpot objects into nested hierarchies similar to folders on a computer. These objects can be Liveboards, Answers, data models, tables, and even other Collections. Collections help with content organization, curated and structured content sharing, and collaboration. Additionally, you can assign different levels of access permissions for users you share your Collections with.

For more information, see Collections in ThoughtSpot.

ThoughtSpot adds two enhancements to Collections in this release.

You can now use ThoughtSpot Modeling Language (TML) to export Collections along with their hierarchy. Additionally, you can import Collections into new environments while retaining their complete folder structure.

For more information, see TML for Collections.

In this release, we add support for non-equi joins when modeling in the ThoughtSpot UI which reduces modeling time. Up to now, only equi (=) joins were supported in the UI, which limited modeling flexibility. Beginning in this release, you can use the following non-equi joins in the UI: <, >, <=, >=, and !=. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support. For more information, see Using non-equi joins.

You can now deactivate Connections directly within ThoughtSpot, suspending all activity on that Connection until it’s re-enabled. To access the Connection deactivation feature, you must have the New connection configuration experience enabled. Administrators can access this option from the Early Access tab. To reference an example, see Deactivate a Snowflake connection.

You can now adjust multiple Liveboard filters together in a single, centralized filter window. Instead of changing and applying each filter separately and reloading the page, you can combine your changes and apply them together.

For more information, see Edit a Liveboard filter.

The new connection creation experience is now generally available (GA). We redesigned and streamlined the process to create a Connection. Set up your Connection in four easy steps by selecting a data source, configuring the Connection, selecting databases, and selecting tables.

For more information, see New connection configuration experience.

ClickHouse connections are now generally available (GA). For more information, see ClickHouse.

You can now connect to Iomete cloud data warehouses. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Connect to Iomete.

We have upgraded the Databricks OSS driver to version 3.4.1. For more information, see Cloud data warehouse driver details for connections.

We have updated the Snowflake driver version to 4.0.2. For more information, see Cloud data warehouse driver details for connections.

We have updated the Trino driver version to version 480. For more information, see Cloud data warehouse driver details for connections.

Customers licensed to embed ThoughtSpot can use ThoughtSpot Embedded features and the Visual Embed SDK.

To enable ThoughtSpot Embedded on your cluster, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release for ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.