Customize text strings

Customize text strings

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You can customize text strings on the ThoughtSpot application interface via customizations object in the SDK.

Example🔗

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: "https://<hostname>:<port>",
    customizations: {
        content: {
            strings: {
                "Liveboard": "Dashboard",
                "Edit": "Modify",
                "Show underlying data": "Show source data",
                "SpotIQ": "Insights",
                "Monitor": "Alerts",
                "Worksheets": "Data model"
            }
        }
    }
});

Try it out in the Visual Embed Playground to preview the customization.

Limitations🔗

Note the following limitations:

  • The text strings are case-sensitive.

  • Customization of user-defined text strings such as object names, title, or description text is not supported.

  • The latest entry in the strings object takes precedence over other substring overrides. For example, if the Liveboard text string is defined as Dashboard and the next substring Pin to Liveboard is defined as Save, all instances of Liveboard will change to Dashboard, but Pin to Liveboard will be customized as Save.

    customizations: {
        content: {
            strings: {
              "Liveboard": "Dashboard",
              "Pin to Liveboard": "Save",
            }
        }
    }

    However, if the order of the string changes as shown in the following example, the later string customization entry will take precedence; which means that the second entry "Liveboard": "Dashboard" will drive the original copy in ThoughtSpot’s user interface Pin to Liveboard to be customized as Pin to Dashboard, and the string customization "Pin to Liveboard": "Save" will be ignored.

    customizations: {
        content: {
            strings: {
              "Pin to Liveboard": "Save",
              "Liveboard": "Dashboard",

            }
        }
    }