visibleActions: [Action.Save,Action.ShowUnderlyingData,Action.Download,Action.DownloadAsCSV,Action.Pin]Show or hide menu items
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ThoughtSpot visualizations, Liveboards, and saved search answers support several actions and menu commands for various user-initiated operations. These actions appear as primary buttons, or as menu commands in More 
or contextual menu. When you embed a ThoughtSpot Liveboard, visualization, or the entire application experience in another app, these actions will be available to all users by default. However, your application users may not require all the available menu actions, or you might want to restrict access to certain features.
With Visual Embed SDK APIs, you can define a set of actions that your application users can access and use. The Visual Embed SDK packages support the following APIs to configure the visibility and availability of actions:
- visibleActions
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Allows you to define a list of actions that can be made visible to your application users. If your embedded instance requires only a few actions, you can use the
visibleActionsAPI to add only those actions to the embedded UI. - disabledActions
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Allows you to define a list of actions that will appear as disabled in the UI. You can also specify a reason for disabling the action. For example, your application user may require a specific privilege to schedule a Liveboard job, so you may want to disable this action and specify a reason, such as
Contact your administrator to enable this feature. - hiddenActions
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Allows you to hide the actions that you don’t want your users to see. If your embedded instance requires most of the actions, and you need to hide a few, you can use this API to hide only those actions.
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Configuration recommendations🔗
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Use
visibleActionswhen you want to show only a small subset of actions in the embedded ThoughtSpot UI. -
The SDK doesn’t support configuring both
visibleActionsandhiddenActions. Before you definevisibleActions, make sure there are no hidden actions configured. -
If you want to show all menu actions to your users and hide only a few, use the
hiddenActionsattribute to hide these actions. -
If you are configuring
visibleActionsin the AppEmbed SDK package, make sure to include all the actions that you want to show on Liveboards, Visualizations, and the Saved Answers page. -
Use the appropriate action string to show or hide a UI action. For a comprehensive list of UI actions and the action strings in the SDK, see Supported actions.
Define visible actions🔗
The Visual Embed SDK packages support the visibleActions attribute, which allows you to define an array of action strings.
For example, if you set the attribute as:
Only the actions specified in the visibleActions attribute will appear in the embedded UI. The embedded application users can access and use the Save, Show underlying data, Download as CSV, and Pin menu actions.
If the visibleActions attribute is set as an empty array, no actions will appear in the embedded UI.
visibleActions: []
If you set both visibleActions and disabledActions attributes as empty arrays, no actions will be visible in the embedded UI:
visibleActions: []
disabledActions: []
If you specify some action strings in both visibleActions and disabledActions attributes, the specified menu actions will appear in the embedded UI. However, users will not be able to access the actions set as disabledActions.
In the following example, the Download, Save, Share, and Pin actions are defined as visible actions and therefore will be visible in the embedded UI. However, the Download menu action will be disabled.
visibleActions: [Action.Download,Action.Save,Action.Share,Action.Pin]
disabledActions: [Action.Download]
If you specify some action strings in the visibleActions attribute and define hiddenActions as an empty array, only the actions that are configured to be visible will appear in the embedded UI.
visibleActions: [Action.DownloadAsPDF,Action.DownloadAsCSV,Action.Save,Action.ShowUnderlyingData,Action.Pin]
hiddenActions: []
If the visibleActions attribute is set as an empty array and the action strings are specified in the hiddenActions attribute, the visibleActions definition takes precedence. Therefore, no actions will appear in the embedded UI.
visibleActions: []
hiddenActions: [Action.DownloadAsPDF,Action.DownloadAsCSV]
If both visibleActions and hiddenActions attributes are defined, the SDK will return a configuration error.
visibleActions: [Action.DownloadAsPDF,Action.DownloadAsCSV,Action.Save,Action.ShowUnderlyingData,Action.Pin]
hiddenActions: [Action.DownloadAsPDF,Action.DownloadAsCSV]
If both visibleActions and hiddenActions attributes are defined as an empty array, the visibleActions definition takes precedence and no actions will appear in the embedded UI.
visibleActions: []
hiddenActions: []Disable actions🔗
If you want to restrict user access to certain actions in the embedded ThoughtSpot Liveboard, visualization, or search results page, you can disable these actions in the embed config view.
The disabledActions attribute in the Visual Embed SDK allows you to specify one or several actions and disable these actions on a Liveboard, Answer, or visualization page.
For example, to disable the Show underlying data action from the More menu , you can specify the ShowUnderlyingData action string in the disabledActions attribute.
disabledActions: [Action.ShowUnderlyingData]Similarly, to disable multiple actions, you can specify the action strings in the disabledActions attribute.
disabledActions: [Action.AddFilter,Action.Present]Disable a custom action🔗
ThoughtSpot allows you to create custom actions for your embedded instance in the Developer portal. If you want to disable a custom action, you can specify the ID of the custom action in the disabledActions attribute.
For example, if a custom action is labeled as Send Email and its ID is set as send-email, specify send-email in the disabledActions attribute.
disabledActions: ['send-email']Add a tooltip for disabled attributes🔗
To add a tooltip for the disabled attribute, you can specify the message text string in the disabledActionReason attribute.
disabledActionReason: "Contact your administrator to enable this action"Hide actions🔗
The Visual Embed SDK allows you to hide specific actions that you may not want to show in the embedded UI. From the list of available actions, you can either define a list of visible actions using the visibleActions attribute or hide specific actions that your application may not require using the hiddenActions attribute. Configuring actions in both visibleActions and hiddenActions attributes leads to an error in embedded content rendition.
For example, if you want to hide only the Download and Pin actions for an embedded visualization and show all other actions, specify the attribute as shown here:
hiddenActions: [Action.Download,Action.Pin]Hide a custom action🔗
To hide a custom action, specify the ID of the custom action in the disabledActions attribute.
For example, if a custom action is labeled as Send Email and its ID is set as send-email, specify send-email in the hiddenActions attribute.
hiddenActions: ['send-email']