Deprecation announcements

Deprecation announcements

As ThoughtSpot applications evolve, some existing features will be deprecated and replaced with new and improved functionality. A deprecated feature may continue to be functional for a short period, but will not be maintained or supported with new workflows and functionality in subsequent releases.

Deprecated features🔗

FeatureImpacted interface and release versionsDeprecation announcement dateDeprecation date

Search Assist

  • Application UI and Visual Embed Playground

    • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.1.0.cl and later

    • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw and later

  • Visual Embed SDK version 1.35.0 and later

September 2024

November 2024

Classic experience for Liveboards, Answers, and SpotIQ

Application UI

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.1.0.cl and later

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw and later

February 2024

August 2024

Page title customization

Application UI

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.1.0.cl and later

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw and later

February 2024

August 2024

Application Background style customization

Application UI

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.2.0.cl and later

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw and later

July 2024

September 2024

customCssUrl parameter

ThoughtSpot Embedded interfaces

  • Visual Embed SDK version 1.30.0 and later

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.0.0.cl and later

  • ThoughtSpot Software 9.5.1.sw and later

June 2024

July 2024

jwt_user_options parameter

REST API v2.0 authentication token endpoints

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 9.12.0.cl and later

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.1.0.sw and later

May 2024

June 2024

default_branch_name and guid_mapping_branch_name parameters

REST API v2 version control APIs

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 9.10.5.cl and later

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.1.0.sw and later

March 2024

April 2024

REST API v2 Beta endpoints

REST API

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 9.0.0.cl and later

  • ThoughtSpot Software 9.0.1.sw and later

September 2022

January 2023

Search assist🔗

The Search Assist feature in Data workspace > Worksheets is deprecated. Due to this, the Enable Search Assist checkbox in the Visual Embed Playground and enableSearchAssist property in the SDK may not show the intended result.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.1.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw

Recommended action

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

Classic experience for Liveboards, Answers, and SpotIQ🔗

Starting from 10.1.0.cl, classic experience for Liveboards, Answers, and SpotIQ will no longer be available. On ThoughtSpot embedded instances, developers will no longer be able to switch to the Liveboard classic experience using the liveboardV2 parameter in the Visual Embed SDK.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.1.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw

Recommended action

If you are using Liveboards in the classic experience mode, note that the new experience will become the only available option when your instance is upgraded to 10.1.0.cl. On ThoughtSpot embedded instances, the "liveboardv2":"false" setting in the SDK becomes invalid as classic experience will no longer be available.

Page title customization🔗

The Page title customization option on the Admin > Style customization and Develop > Customizations > Styles page is deprecated and removed from the UI. The Page title customization setting allowed administrators and developers to customize the title of the browser tab for ThoughtSpot application pages. This setting is deprecated to allow administrators to use the Product name parameter in the Admin > Onboarding page as a single setting to customize product name for all purposes.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.1.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw

Recommended action

If you have customized the Page title setting, after your instance is upgraded to 10.1.0.cl, the browser tab loading ThoughtSpot application pages will display the title in the following format:

  • Liveboard or Answer page - <Object name> | <Product name>

  • Other application pages - <Product name>

Administrators can use the Product name parameter in the Admin > Onboarding page to customize the product name displayed in browser tab titles.

Note that this change will not impact full application embedding if your host application uses its own browser tab titles.

Application background customization via UI🔗

The application background customization option that is currently available on the Admin > Style customization and Develop > Customizations > Styles will be deprecated in the upcoming version.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.2.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.5.0.sw

Recommended action

To customize the background color of ThoughtSpot application, use the --ts-var-root-background CSS variable available with the CSS customization framework and Visual Embed SDK. For more information, see CSS customization framework.

Deprecation of customCssUrl parameter🔗

The customCssUrl parameter in the EmbedConfig interface in the Visual Embed SDK is deprecated and will not be supported in future release versions.

Effective from

  • Visual Embed SDK version 1.30.0

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 10.0.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 9.5.1.sw

Recommended action

If you are using the CSS variables and overrides feature to rebrand or customize embedded pages, no action is required. However, if your implementation uses the customCssUrl parameter in the EmbedConfig interface to point to a custom CSS file, ThoughtSpot recommends switching to the customCSSUrl property in the customizations interface in the init code as shown in this example:

init({
  thoughtSpotHost: "https://<ThoughtSpot-Host>",
  authType: AuthType.None,
  customizations: {
    style: {
       customCSSUrl: 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cssfilename.css',
    },
  },
});

If you are embedding ThoughtSpot without the SDK, you can switch to Visual Embed SDK and use the customization framework, or contact ThoughtSpot Support to configure your embed to point to your custom CSS file.

Deprecated parameter in REST API v2.0 authentication token endpoints🔗

The jwt_user_options object property in /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/full and /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/object is deprecated.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 9.12.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.1.0.sw

Recommended action

Use the user_parameters property available with the /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/full and /api/rest/2.0/auth/token/object endpoints to define security entitlements to a user session.
For more information, see ABAC via tokenBeta.

Deprecated parameters in Version Control APIs🔗

The default_branch_name and guid_mapping_branch_name parameters available with the /api/rest/2.0/vcs/git/config/create and /api/rest/2.0/vcs/git/config/update endpoints are deprecated.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 9.10.5.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 10.1.0.sw

Recommended action

  • default_branch_name is replaced by the commit_branch_name parameter.

  • guid_mapping_branch_name is replaced by the configuration_branch_name parameter.

Use the new parameters to configure Git branches for version control. For more information, see Git integration and version control.

Deprecation of REST API v2 (Beta) endpoints🔗

The REST API v2 Beta endpoints are deprecated from 8.10.0.cl release. These API endpoints will remain functional but will not be accessible from the REST API Playground page from 9.0.0.cl onwards.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 8.10.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 9.0.1.sw

Recommended action

If your current deployment uses REST API v2 Beta endpoints, your implementation may continue to work. However, we recommend transitioning to the REST API v2.0 endpoints as and when ThoughtSpot rolls out the new APIs for production use cases and General Availability (GA).

REST API v2 SDK🔗

The REST API v2 Beta SDK is deprecated from 8.8.0.cl onwards. ThoughtSpot does not recommend using REST API SDK to call REST API v2 Beta v2.0 endpoints.

Effective from

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud 8.8.0.cl

  • ThoughtSpot Software 9.0.1.sw

Recommended action

Use the new version of REST API v2.0 endpoints and SDK versions available for these endpoints. For more information, see REST API v2.0 SDKs.

Documentation🔗

Starting from 9.0.0.cl, the API documentation for the REST API v2 Beta endpoints will not be accessible from the REST API Playground in ThoughtSpot. For information about the REST API v2 Beta endpoints, see REST API v2 Beta reference.

Recommended action

For information about REST API v2.0 endpoints, refer to the following articles and visit the REST API v2 Playground.