What’s new

Theme Builder is now generally available (GA) and will be rolled out to all ThoughtSpot instances in customer deployments over the next few weeks.

When this feature is enabled on your instance, you can access it from the Develop page in ThoughtSpot and use it to customize styles and UX themes directly within the product.

For more information, see Theme Builder.

The new V3 navigation and home page experience is now generally available (GA) and can be enabled on ThoughtSpot embedded instances.

The default UI experience in full application embedding remains the classic (V1) experience until further notice. Developers embedding the full ThoughtSpot application can enable the V3 experience in their applications by setting the appropriate configuration options in their embed code.

For more information, see Customizing full application embedding.

You can now create formula variables using the Variable REST API and use these variables in RLS rules for a specific data context and in ABAC token requests to dynamically assign security attributes to users.

For more information, see ABAC via RLS with variables.

ThoughtSpot introduces new REST APIs for the following Spotter workflows: * To send queries to a conversation session with the Spotter agent * To set natural language (NL) instructions on a model to coach the Spotter system * To fetch NL instructions configured on a model

For more information, see Spotter APIs.

You can now intercept API calls from the embedded ThoughtSpot application using the interceptUrls attribute in the Visual Embed SDK. This feature lets you control API requests in your embedding application and use embed events to modify, block, or handle requests before they are sent to the backend. For more information, see Intercept API calls and search requests.

You can now replace or customize the chart switcher toggle and icons in the Charts drawer on an Answer or visualization page using SVG sprites. Previously, these icons were fixed to ThoughtSpot defaults and were not configurable. In the new version, these icons are available as SVG components and can be replaced by developers through the icon customization framework as needed.

The SDKs for embedding ThoughtSpot components in mobile apps are now Generally Available (GA). For more information about the SDKs and how to embed a ThoughtSpot component in a mobile app, see Mobile embed documentation.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.44.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

ThoughtSpot now enables developers to define custom action in their embed code through the Visual Embed SDK. This enhancement enables code based customization of actions for Liveboards, Visualizations, Answers, and Spotter. With this functionality, developers can add custom actions that show up as new menu options in one of the following UI elements:

Key characteristics of code-based custom actions:

For more information, see Code based custom actions.

You can now configure a webhook for Liveboard schedule events to automate notifications to external applications. This feature allows you to send Liveboard reports directly to a webhook endpoint and create your own custom emails or workflow.

This feature is currently in beta and is not enabled by default. To enable it on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

=== Template variables for publishing The variable APIs include several enhancements to streamline variable creation and update workflows. For information about the new enhancements and breaking changes, see REST API changelog and Variables documentation.

The HostEvent.UpdateParameters event in the Visual Embed SDK now includes the isVisibleToUser attribute, which allows you to control the visibility of Parameter chips on embedded ThoughtSpot pages.

Before this enhancement, the Parameter chip display behavior was inconsistent across embed types when the Parameter values were updated via HostEvent.UpdateParameters requests. With the new change, the isVisibleToUser attribute in HostEvent.UpdateParameters is set to false by default for all embed types.

With the new enhancement, the embedded pages that previously kept the parameter chip visible after an override via HostEvent.UpdateParameters will now hide it unless the isVisibleToUser attribute is explicitly set to true.
This behavior may introduce a breaking change if your current implementation relies on the previous default chip visibility behavior. To retain chip visibility, developers must update their embedding implementation to pass isVisibleToUser: true in their HostEvent.UpdateParameters requests.

For more information, see Runtime Parameter overrides.

Pre-rendering now provides enhanced flexibility and granular control over for rendering embedded ThoughtSpot components. For more information, see Pre-rendering ThoughtSpot Embed components.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.43.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

ThoughtSpot introduces the following new Spotter AI APIs ^Beta, to provide contextual and agentic capabilities for integration with external clients and custom AI applications:

These APIs are designed to build context with each interaction, orchestrate reasoning, and expose tools and skills for natural language analytics.

For more information, see Spotter AI APIs.

You can apply runtime filters and parameter overrides to Spotter sessions and interactions using the Visual Embed SDK. When these overrides are configured in the SDK, they are applied to the data used for Spotter queries, and the generated answers in these sessions will reflect the applied overrides.

The Visual Embed SDK Playground for Spotter embedding includes an option to set runtime overrides. You can test and preview the results before updating your embed code.

For more information, see Runtime filters and Runtime Parameters.

Worksheets are replaced with Models, and all application workflows will require you to use Models. If you are importing worksheet TMLs, the import operation may fail with an error, requiring users to convert Worksheets to Models. Please update your CI/CD and Git workflows to use Model TMLs instead of Worksheets.

For more information, see Worksheet deprecation.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.42.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

You can now create a visual group of Answers and note tiles on an embedded Liveboard and customize the look and feel of the Liveboard, groups, and visualizations using the new styling panel.

The Liveboard styling and grouping feature is disabled by default on embedded apps. To enable this feature on your embed, set isLiveboardStylingAndGroupingEnabled to true in the SDK and contact ThoughtSpot Support.

When this feature is enabled, you can use the following CSS variables in the Visual Embed SDK to style your Liveboard elements:

For more information, see CSS variables reference.

To optimize initial load time, you can now enable lazy loading of Liveboard visualizations using the lazyLoadingForFullHeight parameter. When both fullHeight and lazyLoadingForFullHeight attributes are set to true, visualizations in the embedded Liveboard are loaded incrementally as the user scrolls, rather than all at once on initial load. For more information, see Lazy loading of Liveboard visualizations.

For information about the other SDK enhancements, see Visual Embed Changelog.

In full application embed, developers can now enable the new navigation panel and home page experience. The new experience also organizes the application menu into separate persona-based contextual sections. The new interface also provides a slider to allow users to view or hide the left navigation panel.

The new navigation experience is disabled by default and is available for Early Access. To enable this feature on your instance, contact your ThoughtSpot administrator and then configure the discovery experience property in the SDK.

ThoughtSpot now supports multiple configurations per data Connection. This feature allows data engineers to define and manage several distinct Connection configurations under a single data Connection object in ThoughtSpot. This feature is available only for Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery Cloud Data Warehouses (CDW) connections.

For more information, see Connection Configuration.

You can now create and manage custom calendars for a given Connection object. For more information, see the API documentation in the REST API v2 Playground. For information about REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

For information about other REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.41.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

Spotter embed now supports a comprehensive set of embed and host events that enable interaction between the embedded Spotter component and the host application.

Developers can use these events to:

For a complete list of events, see the following pages:

You can now override the action assigned to the primary button that appears on visualization tiles of an embedded Liveboard. The primaryAction parameter in the Visual Embed SDK allows developers to set that primary action for the embedded Liveboard visualizations.

For more information, see Override default primary action.

The liveboard_reponse_version parameter in search metadata (/api/rest/2.0/metadata/search) REST API request now allows you to retrieve details of Liveboard tabs, visualizations, and filters in a structured format.

For more information, see Response format for Liveboard objects.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.40.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

ThoughtSpot embedded users can now customize their automated email notifications for each Org through REST APIs v2. You can customize features such as the company logo, style, and fonts, visibility of components in the template, and ThoughtSpot-specific content in notification emails, thus ensuring a consistent brand experience.

For more information, see Customize email template.

The publishing feature enables administrators to publish objects from the Primary Org to other Orgs within a multi-tenant instance. This feature simplifies the deployment process for ThoughtSpot administrators, especially when the same object needs to be made available to multiple Orgs within an instance. It also eliminates the need to create duplicate copies of the object, thereby optimizing memory usage.

The publishing feature includes a set of REST APIs that ThoughtSpot administrators can use to create and assign variables, parameterize properties of underlying data objects such as Connections and Tables per Org, and publish objects from the Primary Org to other Orgs on their instance. For more information, see Publishing content to Orgs.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.39.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

You can now customize a specific occurrence of a text string in the ThoughtSpot UI using string IDs. String IDs allow you to selectively and precisely override the visible text strings in the UI and prevent unintended text changes.

For more information, see Customize text strings.

ThoughtSpot provides the following new SDKs to embed ThoughtSpot in mobile apps:

For more information and quickstart guides, see Mobile embed documentation.

The following Spotter embed components are now deprecated and replaced with new components:

The new Spotter embed components are available for use with the Visual Embed SDK v1.38.0 and later. The ConversationEmbed, ConversationViewConfig, BodylessConversation, and BodylessConversationViewConfig components are deprecated in Visual Embed SDK v1.38.0 and later versions. The old component names will be visible in the code panel of the Visual Embed Playground on ThoughtSpot instances with 10.9.0.cl or earlier. The component names in the Playground will be updated in an upcoming version.

The Spotter embed component changes do not break your existing Spotter embed implementation. Your implementation with the old component names will continue to function until further notice. However, ThoughtSpot recommends transitioning to the new names as early as you can, to allow sufficient time for testing your implementation with the updated names.

For Spotter embed documentation and code samples with new components, see Embed Spotter.

You can now show or hide the following columns on the Liveboards, and Answers list pages in full application embeds:

For more information, see Customize full application embedding.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.38.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v2 enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

The REST API Java SDK enables developers to interact programmatically with ThoughtSpot REST APIs from Java applications. It provides a client library with Java methods and classes that map to API endpoints, handle authentication, send API requests, and allow creating and modifying ThoughtSpot resources and objects.

For information about how to install and use the SDK, see Java SDK for REST APIs.

Developers can now embed ThoughtSpot Analytics in their mobile apps using the React Native Embed SDK ^Beta. With the React Native Embed SDK, developers can use native resources and a single codebase to build their mobile app with embedded ThoughtSpot content for both iOS and Android platforms.

In the initial release, the SDK supports embedding a Liveboard component and customizing the embedded view. For more information, see React Native SDK quick start guide.

You can now integrate third-party tools and execute custom scripts within your embed. This feature is disabled by default on ThoughtSpot instances. When enabled, you can use this feature to integrate your preferred analytics and product-guide tools such as Pendo, LogRocket, and Mixpanel into your ThoughtSpot embed.

While you can inject custom Javascript into your embeds, it is essential to consider the associated security risks and vulnerabilities, such as Cross-site scripting (XSS). Before contacting Support to enable this feature on your instance, assess the potential security risks to your application environment and review your organization’s security guidelines. We recommend that you sanitize user data before rendering and ensure that your environment runs scripts from trusted domains only. For more information, see Integrate third-party tools and scripts.

If you are using the pendoTrackingKey setting in the Visual Embed SDK, note that ThoughtSpot will deprecate this attribute six months after the 10.8.0.cl release. While you can continue using pendoTrackingKey until its deprecation, we recommend using the external tools integration feature to integrate your preferred tool for analytics and product guides. For additional information or migration assistance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

In the 10.8.0.cl release, ThoughtSpot introduces a unified help and support experience that will eventually replace the information center panel generated by Pendo. The new information panel provides access to ThoughtSpot documentation and support and also allows you to add custom links. This feature will be enabled gradually on ThoughtSpot instances.

This change will affect your instance if you have embedded the full ThoughtSpot experience with the top navigation bar and Help (?) icon, using showPrimaryNavbar: true and disableProfileAndHelp: false settings in the Visual Embed SDK.

Customer environments currently using the legacy information center during embedded sessions will continue to do so for the next few months to minimize disruption. Your ThoughtSpot Customer Success team will contact you and assist you in migrating to the new experience.

To facilitate testing and the rollout of the new information center, ThoughtSpot provides the enablePendoHelp SDK flag. By default, the enablePendoHelp is set to true to ensure that your embedded sessions use the legacy information center generated by Pendo. To enable the new experience, you need to set enablePendoHelp to false.

ThoughtSpot now supports column name and description aliases in a Worksheet or Model, which can be used for localizing the Search and Answer interfaces. This feature is disabled by default on ThoughtSpot instances. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.37.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

Spotter is enabled on ThoughtSpot instances by default and is now generally available for embedding in your applications and chatbot.

This release also introduces several enhancements to Spotter embed:

For more information, see Embed Spotter.

ThoughtSpot now offers Theme Builder ^Beta, a graphical representation of CSS controls and themes to assist developers with the CSS customization framework. Theme Builder allows you to explore and preview the CSS customization options available with the Visual Embed SDK to customize the look and feel of the ThoughtSpot application interface.

Developers embedding ThoughtSpot can preview the customization options in Theme Builder for various embed components, including Liveboard, Visualizations, Search page, and the full application experience. Additionally, you can view and download the default CSS variables in JSON format and upload a JSON file containing custom values for these CSS variables.

For more information, see Theme Builder.

ThoughtSpot now supports Multi-Factor authentication (MFA) ^Beta for environments using local authentication with IAMv2. MFA is in beta and disabled by default on ThoughtSpot instances. When enabled on a ThoughtSpot instance, administrators can enable MFA for all local users authenticating to ThoughtSpot with username and password.

BREAKING CHANGE

When MFA is enabled on your ThoughtSpot instance, using basic authentication in REST API calls to the following API endpoints will result in an error:

When MFA is enabled on a ThoughtSpot instance, local authentication users cannot log in with their username and password and are prompted to enable MFA when they try to log in via UI. Setting up MFA via APIs is not supported.

If you are using REST APIs with basic authentication, ThoughtSpot recommends updating your application environment to use username and secret_key to generate authentication token. To stay security compliant and avoid breaking changes, before activating MFA for your users, we recommend that you enable Trusted Authentication on your instance and set up your embed and REST API environments to use token-based authentication. For more information and assistance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

Developers embedding ThoughtSpot Liveboards can now enable the Compact Liveboard feature for their application users. When enabled, this feature optimizes Liveboard header space, moves the tabs panel to the top of the header, and maximizes the visibility of the charts and tables on the Liveboard.

Compact Liveboard header is disabled by default. To enable this feature, set isLiveboardCompactHeaderEnabled to true in the SDK.

By default, Liveboards display all filters and parameters, including those that are not applicable to the visualizations in a tab. On embedded Liveboards, developers can control the visibility of filters and Parameters for visualizations in a tab using the hideirrelevantchipsinliveboardtabs property in the SDK.

For more information about filters for Liveboard tabs, see Apply filters to specific visualizations or tabs.

You can now convert a Worksheet to a Model via a REST API POST call to the /api/rest/2.0/metadata/worksheets/convert endpoint.

ThoughtSpot recommends migrating your Worksheet data to Models, because Worksheets are deprecated in ThoughtSpot and will be removed from the product in 10.10.0.cl release.

Starting with ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.6.0.cl release, all ThoughtSpot Enterprise instances will gradually be enabled with Orgs. Your environment will remain a single-tenant instance until you create Orgs. When the Orgs feature is enabled on your instance, you can switch to a single-tenant mode anytime by deleting all user-created Orgs and using only the default Primary Org.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.36.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

If your ThoughtSpot instance is upgraded from 10.1.0.cl to 10.5.0.cl, the Natural Language Search interface will be the default search experience on the embedded ThoughtSpot Home page. The split search experience, which was introduced in 10.3.0.cl, will be turned off by default on these instances. For applications embedding full ThoughtSpot experience, the isUnifiedSearchExperienceEnabled property will be set to true in the Visual Embed SDK. Your application users can continue to use the unified experience until it is deprecated. However, developers can choose to disable the unified search experience and customize the Home page search experience for their application users.

On instances upgraded from 10.3.0.cl or 10.4.0.cl to 10.5.0.cl, Object Search will be the default search experience on the embedded ThoughtSpot Home page. The unified search experience will be disabled by default and the isUnifiedSearchExperienceEnabled property in the Visual Embed SDK will be set to false. If required, developers can switch to AI Search experience by setting the homePageSearchBarMode property to aiAnswer.

For more information, see Home page search experience customization.

With most web browsers blocking third-party cookies, cookies will no longer be shared across the ThoughtSpot embedded pages and the host application, or other tabs in the browser. If your embed no longer functions without the use of third-party cookies, consider using one of the following options:

For more information, see Security Settings.

The ABAC via tokens feature is GA in 10.5.0.cl. Several changes have been introduced since the ThoughtSpot 10.4.0.cl release to improve the ABAC configuration workflows:

If you have implemented ABAC using auth/token/full or auth/token/object API endpoints and your cluster is upgraded to 10.4.0.cl or 10.5.0.cl, you can migrate your implementation to start using the /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/custom API endpoint. For more information, refer to ABAC migration guide.

Starting with ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.5.0.cl release, developers embedding ThoughtSpot in their application can include the Org context in ThoughtSpot URLs using custom link settings.

This feature is turned off by default. To enable this feature on your ThoughtSpot instance, contact ThoughSpot Support. For more information, see Orgs context for sharing links.

All new ThoughtSpot application instances are enabled with enhanced Identity and Access Management (IAMv2). The existing ThoughtSpot embedded instances will be migrated to IAMv2 during the maintenance windows.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.35.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

ThoughtSpot Spotter ^Beta enables users to find insights from their data through a conversational interface powered by Generative AI. Spotter functions as your AI Analyst and allows your application users to start a conversation, ask follow-up questions on the results generated by ThoughtSpot, and get the data they need.

For more information, see the following pages:

To generate a token with custom rules, attributes, and filter conditions for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) ^Beta, you can use the /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/custom API endpoint instead of the user_parameters property in /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/full and /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/object APIs.

For more information, see Get tokens with custom rules and filter conditions.

The Visual Embed Playground provides several checkboxes and customization settings for ThoughtSpot embed components. You can use these checkboxes to customize your embedded view, view results instantly, and copy code.

For more information, see Visual Embed Playground.

Models are now available on ThoughtSpot embedded instances. ThoughtSpot recommends using Models as data source objects for Answers and Liveboards instead of Worksheets from 10.4.0.cl release onwards.

Worksheets are deprecated in 10.4.0.cl and will be removed from ThoughtSpot in an upcoming release. If you are embedding full ThoughtSpot application or the Data Workspace page in your app, you will notice that the Worksheet creation option is disabled by default. However, existing Worksheets continue to be available and editable. To enable Worksheet creation on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

Starting with ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.4.0.cl release, Orgs will be enabled by default on all new ThoughtSpot instances. Your environment remains a single-tenant instance until you create Orgs. If the Orgs feature is enabled on your instance, you can switch to a single-tenant mode anytime by deleting the Orgs and using just the Primary Org.

For more information, see Multi-tenancy with Orgs.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.34.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

The Search Assist feature for Worksheets and the Enable Search Assist checkbox in Search Embed Playground are removed from ThoughtSpot in 10.4.0.cl. If your embedding application uses the enableSearchAssist property, you may want to update your deployment.

For more information, see Deprecated features.

Starting from the ThoughtSpot 10.3.0.cl release, the Home page does not provide a combined search experience with Natural Language Search and Object Search. As a result, Object Search will become the default search experience on the Home page, and Natural Language Search will be disabled by default.

If you are embedding the Home page of ThoughtSpot application in your app, and you want to retain both the object Search and Natural Language Search experience for your users, you can customize the search type in the Visual Embed SDK. For more information, see Search experience customization.

With selective user access, you can allow users without the administrator or developer privilege to securely access the non-embedded pages.

For more information, see User access to non-embedded content.

You can now customize the width of the Liveboard breakpoint on an embedded instance. To enable it, you must set the enable2ColumnLayout property to true.

For more information, see Redefine Liveboard breakpoint widths.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.33.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

In the 10.3.0.cl release, the application background customization option on the Admin > Style customization and Develop > Customizations > Styles is deprecated. For more information, see Application background customization.

The CSS customization framework now supports customizing the look and feel of the new Data Panel experience. For more information, see Embed Search and CSS customization framework.

If you have embedded full application experience with Liveboards and Answers listing pages, note the following UI changes:

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.32.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

In 10.1.0.cl release, the following features are deprecated and removed from the UI:

You can now customize the number, date, and currency format displayed on embedded pages.

For more information, see Set locale.

If RBAC is enabled on your instance, ensure that the Version Control API users have the Can manage version control (CAN_MANAGE_VERSION_CONTROL) Role privilege.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.31.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information on REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

For information about deprecated features, see Deprecation announcements.

The new navigation and Home page experience is now available for ThoughtSpot users.

ThoughtSpot administrators can enable this feature on their application instance on the Admin page. If the new navigation and Home page experience is enabled on your instance, users can turn on the New Experience mode on their Profile settings page.

On embedding apps, the new navigation and Home page experience is disabled by default. To enable it, you must set the modularHomeExperience property to true in the AppEmbed component.

The new navigation and Home page experience introduces the following notable changes:

For more information, see Customize full application embedding.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.30.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

ThoughtSpot now supports managing user authentication through IAMv2 on embedded instances. With this feature, administrators can set up SAML and OIDC authentication with Identity providers such as Okta, Google, and so on. You can also map Identity Provider (IDP) attributes on the ThoughtSpot Admin page when setting up OIDC or SAML authentication on your instance.

IAMv2 is turned off by default. To enable it on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see SAML SSO authentication and OpenID Connect authentication.

ThoughtSpot now supports Orgs through OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication on embedded instances. With Org mapping, the IdP will have the ability to assign users to specific Orgs when they log in via OIDC authentication. You need administrator privileges to enable Org mapping on the cluster.

For more information, see Multi-tenancy with Orgs and OpenID Connect authentication.

ThoughtSpot application users can now ask follow-up questions and seek clarifications about visualizations and Answers generated using natural language search. The Ask Sage action on Liveboard visualizations and Ask a follow-up action search results page allow you to start a conversation with the AI analyst, ask successive questions, and refine the Answer retrieved from a Natural Language Search query.

The Ask Sage feature is turned off by default. To enable this feature on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support. To enable or disable this feature for embedded application users, use the enableAskSage attribute.

The following TML menu actions are now grouped under the TML sub-menu of the More menu.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.29.x, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

You can now implement Row-Level Security (RLS) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) via tokens for ThoughtSpot embedded application users. You can now configure your authentication process in the SDK to assign security attributes for any user during session creation.

For more information, see ABAC via token.

You can now get quick insights on how top metrics have changed in your Liveboard via AI Highlights.

For more information, see AI Highlights.

If the RBAC is enabled on your ThoughtSpot instance, administrators can use the following Roles for granular access control and data management:

For more information, see Role-based access control.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.29.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

You can now integrate your ThoughtSpot instance with a Vercel project. If you are using Vercel to build and maintain your embedding application, you can install ThoughtSpot analytics integration, connect to ThoughtSpot data, and embed content in your app seamlessly.

For more information, see Vercel integration.

The following custom CSS variables are deprecated and not supported from 9.10.0.cl onwards:

The Security Settings page in the Develop tab now allows any ThoughtSpot user with developer or admin privileges to modify CSP settings for image, font, and style import.

For more information, see Security Settings.

In full application embedding, you can now review user feedback on the natural language search queries on the Data page.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.28.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

You can now embed ThoughtSpot Search with Natural Language Search capabilities using SageEmbed SDK package. Natural Language Search allows your application users to search for data using natural language query strings. This feature also provides AI-suggested sample questions and popular queries to assist users in their data search operations.

Using SageEmbed, you can embed the ThoughtSpot Search interface with Natural Language Search components in your app and also customize the search experience as per your requirements.

For more information, see Embed Natural Language Search.

The Visual Embed playground now allows you to explore Natural Language Search embedding options and Search page customization capabilities. For more information, see Natural Language Search.

The Deploy Commit Version Control API now provides the VALIDATE_ONLY option to validate TML imports to the destination environment. If your destination environment has TML content that has been modified or is different from the content on the main branch, you can run the validation before deploying changes to the destination environment.

For more information, see Deploy commits.

To customize Natural Language Search interface, you can use the following variables in your custom CSS:

For mor information, see Customize CSS.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.27.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

The Git integration feature and Version Control APIs are GA and enabled by default on ThoughtSpot. This version also includes several enhancements to the Version Control APIs. For more information, see REST API v2 Changelog and Git integration and version control.

You can now customize icon sprites and add custom text strings. For more information, see Customize text strings and Customize icons.

For more information, see Visual Embed SDK Changelog and SDK documentation.

You can now enable the new data panel experience on the embedded Search page in the SDK. The new data panel experience is turned off by default on embedded ThoughtSpot instances.

For more information, see Embed ThoughtSpot Search.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.26.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

The 9.6.0.cl release adds the following features to the Visual Embed Playground:

If you are embedding the full ThoughtSpot experience with the ThoughtSpot Sage feature, the Home page allows you to use AI-generated search answers. To enable AI-assisted search on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

The role-based access control (RBAC) feature allows administrators to create a role in the UI or via REST API calls and assign a set of privileges. With the RBAC feature, you can assign granular permissions and control user access to ThoughtSpot features and application workflows. For more information, see Role-based Access Control.

The RBAC feature is turned off by default. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.25.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v2.0 changelog.

ThoughtSpot administrators and developers can now create a Webhook to send KPI monitor alerts to the REST endpoint of an external application. The Webhooks feature is turned off by default. To enable this feature on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see Webhooks for KPI Monitor alerts.

The Git integration feature now supports pushing commits and publishing content to Org-based deployment environments. If your ThoughtSpot cluster has Orgs and multi-tenancy enabled, you can create dev and prod environments on the same ThoughtSpot instance and connect these environments to your GitHub repository.

For more information, see Git integration and version control.

The Visual Embed SDK provides a new JavaScript library to embed the Search page with AI-powered features such as natural language search and AI-suggested answers. To view the AI-suggested answers, make sure the AI search support is enabled on the data source or worksheet used for searching data.

For more information, see SageEmbed SDK reference.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.24.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

For more information, see Security Settings.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.23.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

Developers can now enable cookieless authentication when embedding ThoughtSpot in their applications. The cookieless authentication method allows using a bearer token instead of session cookies when users interact with embedded content or initiate API requests. If the embedded content does not load from the same domain as your embedding application, and your Web browser does not allow third-party cookies, you can use Cookieless authentication in the Trusted authentication mode.

For more information, see Trusted authentication.

ThoughtSpot Cloud clusters support idle sensing in embedded deployments. With idle sensing enabled on your embedded ThoughtSpot instance, your instance becomes inactive if there is no active user session detected for a period of 120 minutes. You can restart an inactive cluster using API when required.

For more information, see Manage your cluster state.

The Develop tab now allows customizing UI styles and layout at the Org level. To enable this feature on your multi-tenant instance, contact ThoughtSpot support.

For more information, see Custom styles for Orgs on multi-tenant clusters.

You can now connect your ThoughtSpot instance to a Git repository and push commits from your application instance to a Git branch via REST API. With the Git integration ^Beta feature, ThoughtSpot provides the ability to integrate your application environment with Git workflows and deploy commits from a development instance to a production cluster.

For more information, see Version control with Git integration.

The Visual Embed developer Playground now includes a Try button in the preview panel. The Try button is attached to an event handler. You can register a host event and click Try to trigger an action on the embedded page in the Playground.

For more information, see Events reference.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK versions 1.22.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

ThoughtSpot now supports generating secret keys per Org. Org administrators can generate a secret key for trusted authentication in their Org context and allow their Org users to obtain authentication tokens using this secret key.

Starting from 9.2.0.cl, Org users require Org-specific authentication tokens issued for their user accounts when switching between Orgs. When generating an authentication token via REST API, make sure to request separate tokens for each Org context.

For more information, see Trusted authentication.

The 9.2.0.cl release introduces the following new variables for custom styling of the ThoughtSpot Search page:

For more information, see Customize CSS.

The Develop tab in the ThoughtSpot UI introduces the GraphQL playground to allow users to interact with GraphQL endpoints and run query and mutation operations. To enable this feature on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see GraphQL Playground.

Embedded application users can now create Worksheet and Answer Parameters to optimize data queries. You can also adjust values and apply overrides at runtime on a Liveboard or Answer either via REST API or by appending Parameters to the query URL in the UI.

For more information, see Runtime Parameter overrides.

You can now customize the navigation links in your app using the Generic link option in the Develop > Customization > Link settings page.

For more information, see Customize links.

ThoughtSpot now supports brushing and linking of visualizations on a Liveboard using cross filters. Cross filters allow you to present a coordinated view of a Liveboard by applying filters across all visualizations based on the current selection.

To hide or disable the cross filter feature on an embedded instance, use the Action.CrossFilter and Action.RemoveCrossFilter parameters in the SDK. For more information, see Show or hide menu items and Action reference.

By default, the contextual menu in ThoughtSpot application pages is set as right-click pop-up menu. Starting from 9.2.0.cl, you can set the contextual menu to trigger on left-click.

To trigger the contextual menu on left-click or right-click on an embedded app, you can use the contextMenuTrigger property in the Visual Embed SDK. In the following example, the contextual menu is configured to trigger on left-click.

In the new Liveboard experience mode, you can now add Note tiles with custom text, images, and links. This feature is turned off by default and can be enabled by ThoughtSpot administrators.

For more information, see Note tiles.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK versions 1.20.0 and 1.21.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog and REST API v2.0 changelog.

The new Liveboard experience is now Generally Available (GA) on embedded instances and is enabled by default.

The CSS customization feature supports new variables to customize the look and feel of the following UI elements:

For more information, see Customize CSS.

Starting with 9.0.0.cl, the REST API v2 ^Beta API endpoints are deprecated and removed from the REST API v2 Playground. A set of new endpoints is now generally available (GA) on all ThoughtSpot instances.

The new REST API v2.0 endpoints introduce several improvements to the request and response structure and let you perform more tasks in a single API call. For example, you can create a new user, map the user to groups and Orgs, set home Liveboards for the user, and assign privileges in a single API request.

Starting from 9.0.0.cl, ThoughtSpot allows its administrators to turn on Early Access features from the Admin portal. Early Access features are qualified by ThoughSpot for customer use but are not enabled by default on ThoughtSpot instances until the features are GA.

The 9.0.0.cl release introduces the following Early Access features:

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.19.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v1 enhancements, see REST API v1 changelog.

You can now embed the ThoughtSpot search bar component in your app. For example, if you are using Google Sheets for data analysis, you can embed the ThoughtSpot search bar and let your users search data from a specific data source. The embedded Search bar allows passing search tokens and modifying search options. You can also retrieve the search results as raw data and let your host application render it in the format you want.

For more information, see Embed ThoughtSpot search bar.

The CSS customization feature supports new variables to customize the look and feel of the following UI elements:

For more information, see Customize CSS.

You can now enable CSP overrides for font, stylesheet, and image sources in ThoughtSpot UI. If you want to load fonts, stylesheets, images, or favicons from an external source, add the source URLs to the CSP allowlist on the Security Settings page.

For more information, see Security Settings.

You can now set up your ThoughtSpot Cloud instance as a multi-tenant cluster and partition it into logical and isolated workspaces called Orgs. Each Org can have its own users, groups, and metadata, and stay independent of and invisible to other Orgs configured on the same application instance.

For more information, see Multi-tenancy with Orgs.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.18.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v1 enhancements, see REST API changelog.

The following changes are introduced in the Visual Embed SDK to improve the authentication framework and options for embedded application users:

For more information, see Authentication.

Starting from 8.9.0.cl, the /tspublic/v1/session/auth/token endpoint supports just-in-time provisioning of users. If the user specified in the API request does not exist in the ThoughtSpot system, you can set the autocreate property to true to add the user to ThoughtSpot and assign the user to groups.

ThoughtSpot now allows you to override style specifications of the embedded UI pages and elements with custom CSS. Custom CSS provides granular control over the design elements and lets you modify the properties of these elements to match the look and feel of your host application.

To help users visualize and preview the CSS overrides, the Visual Embed playground will include the Apply custom styles checkbox, which allows you to explore the variables available for customization.

For more information, see Customize styles and layout and Customize CSS using SDK.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.17.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v1 enhancements, see REST API changelog.

ThoughtSpot users can now customize the tile size of a visualization on a Liveboard. In the earlier versions, ThoughtSpot allowed resizing visualizations using predefined layout options available in the More menu . With custom tile size, users can now change the size of a visualization just by clicking and dragging the tile to the desired size.

This feature is in beta and disabled by default on all Thoughtspot instances. To enable this feature on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in Visual Embed SDK version 1.16.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v1 enhancements, see REST API changelog.

Bug fixes and new improvements in embedded user experience.
For more information, see Fixed issues.

The new Liveboard experience^Beta now supports organizing visualizations in tabs. Users with edit access to a Liveboard can add, edit, and move visualizations to tabs on a Liveboard. On embedded ThoughtSpot instances, developers can set a specific tab as an active tab using the Visual Embed SDK.

This feature is available only on deployments that have the new Liveboard experience enabled. For more information, see Customize Liveboard tabs.

For information about the new features and enhancements in the Visual Embed SDK version 1.15.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API v1 enhancements, see REST API changelog.

The REST API v2 ^Beta feature will be deprecated in 8.10.0.cl and replaced with the new v2.0 API endpoints. For more information, see Deprecation announcements.

The new Liveboard experience is now available on embedded ThoughtSpot instances. In addition to the existing Liveboard features, the new experience introduces several notable changes to the Liveboard page:

For more information about the new Liveboard experience, see New Liveboard experience.

The new Liveboard experience is currently available in BETA on embedded ThoughtSpot instances. The new liveboard experience will be rolled out on embedded instances in phases:

If you have enabled the new Liveboard experience on your instance, you can use the Action and Event enumeration members available in the SDK package to customize an embedded object and improve interactivity.

For example, to disable the Delete action for a visualization object on the Liveboard, you can use the Action.Remove enum. Similarly, you can trigger events such as VizPointClick on visualizations in an embedded Liveboard.

For information about the new features and enhancements in the Visual Embed SDK version 1.14.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

For information about REST API enhancements, see REST API changelog.

Your application users can now access sample search walkthrough lessons created using Search Assist on embedded ThoughtSpot instances. If the Search Assist feature is enabled in the SDK, and the Search Assist lessons are created on the Worksheet, users can view sample search questions and follow the actions in the walkthrough to get answers.

For information about the new features and enhancements in the Visual Embed SDK version 1.13.0, see Visual Embed changelog.

The new Data workspace is Generally Available (GA) in 8.5.0.cl on ThoughtSpot instances. For more information about the new Data tab, SpotApps, and other related features, see ThoughtSpot product documentation.

This release allows query parameters in the Liveboard, saved Answer, and visualization URLs that are customized for an embedded ThoughtSpot instance. For example, you can customize the Unsubscribe link sent in email notifications for KPI charts by adding {ts-query-params} to the visualization URL, and thus allow users to unsubscribe from KPI threshold alerts at any time.

For more information, see Customize links.

The Visual Embed SDK version 1.12.0 introduces new events. For more information, see Visual Embed changelog.

The Visual Embed SDK version 1.11.0 introduces several new events for embedded components. For more information, see Visual Embed changelog.

The Visual Embed SDK version 1.10.x introduces new attributes and bug fixes. For more information, see Visual Embed changelog.

New endpoints for data connection queries. For more information, see REST API v1 changelog.

Starting from 8.2.0.cl release, the REST API Playground and SDK ^Beta feature is enabled by default on ThoughtSpot instances.

The 8.2.0.cl release also introduces the following features:

For more information, see REST API v2 authentication.

The Visual Embed SDK version 1.9.x introduces new action enumerations, events, and attributes. For more information, see Visual Embed Changelog.

The following REST API v2 endpoints are now available on instances on which the REST API v2 Playground and SDK feature is enabled.

The REST API v2 Playground and SDK is a limited availability feature and is in beta.

For more information, see REST API v2 and REST API v2 Reference.

To make it easier for users to find new insights, the Search data functionality is moved from the search bar toggle on the Home page to the Search data button in the main navigation bar.

Note that if you are embedding the full application without the navigation bar, your application users may not be able to access the Search data button. If you must include the Search bar toggle on the Home page, contact ThoughtSpot Support to restore this feature on your cluster.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud October release introduces the Visual Embed SDK version 1.5.0, which includes the following new features and enhancements.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud October release includes the following new REST API endpoints. For more information about these APIs, see REST API Reference.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud September release introduces the Visual Embed SDK version 1.4.0, which includes the following new features and enhancements.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud September release includes the following new endpoints and modifications to the REST APIs. For more information, see REST API Reference.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud August release supports Visual Embed SDK version 1.3.1, which includes the following features and enhancements.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud August release introduces several new APIs to manage users, user groups, cluster configuration, object dependencies, and so on.

For a complete list of APIs, see REST API Reference.

ThoughtSpot generates links to access objects, such as pinboards, visualizations, and answers, when a user shares an object with another user or follows a pinboard to receive periodic notifications. If you have embedded ThoughtSpot in your application, you might want to generate these links in the format that preserves your host application context.

For embedded instances, ThoughtSpot now allows you to customize the format of these links in the Developer portal. The Link Settings page in the Developer portal allows you to customize the link format for various resource URLs and the unsubscribe link sent in email notifications.

For more information, see Customize links.

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud June release includes several new and modified APIs:

The POST /tspublic/v1/user/updatepreference API now includes the optional username parameter to allow API users to specify the username of the ThoughtSpot user whose profile is being modified. For more information, see Update a user profile.

You can now add a custom action to the contextual menu to send data or initiate an action from an embedded visualization. The Customization > Actions page in the Develop tab allows you to add a custom action to the contextual menu for visualizations in the Answers or Pinboards page.

For more information, see Add custom actions.

This release introduces the following performance improvements for ThoughtSpot embedded applications:

The ThoughtSpot 7 Cloud May release introduces the following REST APIs: