Visual Embed changelog

Spotter embed components with new names
The following Spotter embed components are now deprecated and replaced with new components in the SDK and Visual Embed Playground:

The deprecated components with old names in the existing Spotter embed implementations will continue to function until further notice. For code samples with new component names, see Spotter embed documentation.

Action ID of Spotter coaching
For ThoughtSpot instances that have the new Spotter feedback and coaching workflow enabled, SDK provides the action ID Acion.InCoversationTraining to manage the visibility of the Add to coaching button on Answer generated from Spotter prompts.

String IDs for text customization
Developers can now customize a specific occurrence of a visible text string in the ThoughtSpot UI using the stringIDs object in the customization interface.

To locate the string IDs, SDK provides the exposeTranslationIds attribute. By setting exposeTranslationIds to true in the Playground, you can find the string ID of the UI text and use it in your customization code.

Additionally, the SDK provides the StringIDsUrl attribute to allow using a JSON file with string IDs and custom strings to override the visible text in the UI.

For more information, see Customize text strings.

Hide columns on list pages

In full app embedding, you can now hide the following columns on the Liveboards and Answers listing pages using the hiddenListColumns array:

For more information, see Customize full application embed.

The SDK now provides the customVariablesForThirdPartyTools setting to pass custom variables when integrating third-party tools and running custom scripts in your embed. Developers can define this object in the init() function and add variables as key-value pair. This feature is available only if third-party integration is enabled on your instance and script hosting domain URL is added to the CSP allowlist.

For more information, see Integrate third-party tools and allow custom scripts.

You can now exclude search token string from the application URL by setting excludeSearchTokenStringFromURL to true in your embed with ThoughtSpot token-based Search or Search bar.

This version of the SDK supports the following embed and host events:

The following HostEvents now allow custom parameters to set object properties programmatically:

For more information, see Host Events documentation.

For more information about Spotter customization, see Customize styles.

The SDK now provides the isUnifiedSearchExperienceEnabled setting to customize the Search experience on ThoughtSpot Home page for embedding application users:

For more information, see Search interface on the Home page in full application embedding.

The overrideOrgId parameter in the SDK provides the ability to override Org context for embedding application users. This parameter allows users authenticated to an Org to temporarily view content from another Org. Before specifying the Org ID for override, make sure the Per Org URL feature is enabled on your ThoughtSpot instance. To enable Per Org URL on your instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

You can now embed the following ThoughtSpot Spotter components in your app:

For more information, see Embed Spotter and Integrate Spotter into your chatbot.

The following parameters and enumerations are available for customizing Liveboard experience:

NEW FEATURE

The following parameters are available for customizing Search experience:

NEW FEATURE

The following settings are available for customizing the new home page and navigation experience in full app embedding:

You can now customize the search experience for the embedded ThoughtSpot Home page using homePageSearchBarMode. By default, the Home page includes the Object Search bar, which allows finding popular Liveboards and Answers.

You can set the homePageSearchBarMode property to one of the following options:

The SDK now allows you to set the focus on the Search bar or outside the Search bar when rendering the embedded Search page. Use the focusSearchBarOnRender property to set the position of the cursor focus.

The SDK includes the following Event and Action enumeration members:

The following new action enumerations are available in this version:

You can now enable enable2ColumnLayout on a Liveboard to adjust the page view according to the width and resolution of users' devices.

Runtime filters

CSS variables for new homepage experience

For more information, see CSS variables and overrides.

Ask Sage

With Ask Sage ^Beta embedded application users can ask follow-up questions on a visualization generated from a Natural Language Search query, converse with AI analyst, and refine results. To enable this feature, set enableAskSage to true.

The SDK includes the following new enumeration members in v1.28.0:

To access the new Home page and global navigation experience in the full application embedding, you can use the modularHomeExperience property in the SDK. The modular homepage experience is turned off by default and is available as an Early Access feature in 9.12.5.cl release. When modularHomeExperience is set to true, you can use the following parameters in the SDK to control the application experience:

For more information, see Customize full application embedding and AppViewConfig.

The following embed event is available from the v1.28.0 onwards:

EmbedEvent.Rename
Emits when an embedded Liveboard or visualization is renamed.

TML actions

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

To show, hide, or disable these actions in the embedded mode, use the following format:

 // to show the TML menu and its sub-menu options
visibleActions: [Action.TML, Action.ExportTML, Action.EditTML]

 // to hide all TML actions
hiddenActions: [Action.TML]

 // to disable all TML actions
disabledActions: [Action.TML]

The following action enumeration members are available from v1.27.9 and v1.27.10:

For more information, see Action.

You can now use HostEvent.GetAnswerSession to get Answer session data for a Search Answer or Liveboard Visualization in the embedded view.

The SageEmbed package is now available on all clusters. You can use this SDK package to embed Natural Language Search capabilities and assist users with AI-suggested queries and AI-generated answers. This SDK package also allows you to customize the Natural Language Search experience in the embedded view.

For a complete list of methods, functions, interface objects, and properties, see the following pages:

The HostEvent.DrillDown now supports the vizId parameter to trigger a drill-down action on a specific visualization of a Liveboard. For more information, see DrillDown.

The new version of the SDK introduces the following new enumeration members:

The SDK provides AnswerService class to trigger the answer service with a custom action payload. You can use this service to run GraphQL queries in the context of the Answer with a custom action trigger. For more information, see AnswerService. Recommended ThoughtSpot application version is 9.10.0.cl.

The following object properties and feature flags are introduced in the LiveboardEmbed and AppEmbed SDK packages:

The new version of the SDK supports the following events:

The SDK introduces the following action enumeration members:

For more information, see Actions.

The SDK introduces the following action enumeration members:

For more information, see Actions.

ThoughtSpot now provides the SageEmbed package to embed the ThoughtSpot Search page with Sage features such as natural language search and AI-suggested search examples. This feature is in beta and not available in the Visual Embed Playground.

The HostEvent.SetActiveTab event in the upcoming version of the SDK allows you to set a tab as an active tab on a Liveboard.

The SDK supports the following performance optimization enhancements:

The new version of the SDK introduces the TrustedAuthTokenCookieless authType property to allow Cookieless embedding. The Cookieless authentication method allows using a bearer token to identify the signed-in user instead of session cookies.

For more information, see Cookieless authentication.

The new version of the SDK allows you to block user access to the non-embedded instance of the ThoughtSpot application. In full app embed deployments, you can use the blockNonEmbedFullAppAccess property in the SDK to restrict or allow your application users from accessing ThoughtSpot pages in the non-embed mode.

For more information, see Block access to non-embedded ThoughtSpot pages.

The new version of the SDK introduces the following action enumeration members:

For more information, see Action reference.

The SDK introduces the following events:

For more information, see Events.

The following events are deprecated from version 1.21.0 onwards.

You can use the DownloadAsPng, DownloadAsXlsx, DownloadAsCsv and DownloadAsPdf events for download actions.

For more information, see Events reference.

The SDK includes new attributes to customize the experience for embedded app users:

The dataSources property in SearchEmbed and SearchBarEmbed is deprecated and replaced with the dataSource attribute. The SDK supports searching from a single data source only.

The embed SDK packages now include the insertAsSibling property. This attribute can be used to insert the embedded object as a sibling to the element inside the target container.

The customCSS property in the customizations object supports new variables to customize the styles for dialogs, search bar, search navigation and search suggestions panels. For more information, see Customize CSS.

The new Liveboard experience mode introduces changes to the data format of the JSON response payload triggered by callback custom actions. For example, the reportBookData, and vizData attributes are modified, and the custom action id now is part of the data attribute. These changes may break your current custom action event handlers. For interoperability, we recommend adding the data attribute to payload in your code as shown in the example here:

liveboardEmbed.on(EmbedEvent.CustomAction, payload => {
    if (payload.id === "callback-action-id" || payload.data.id === "callback-action-id") {
        console.log('Custom Action event:', payload.data);
    }
})

You may also want to update the data classes in your scripts to process the JSON response payload and handle complex data. For more information, see Callback custom actions.

The new version of the SDK introduces the following Host events:

For more information, see Host events.

The noRedirect property in the SDK is deprecated and replaced with the inPopup attribute. When set to true, the inPopup attribute allows the SAML SSO authentication flow in a pop-up window.

For more information, see SAML Redirection.

The new version of the SDK provides the SearchBarEmbed JavaScript package to embed only the ThoughtSpot Search bar in your app.

For more information, see Embed ThoughtSpot search bar.

The customCSS property in the customizations object supports new variables to customize the UI elements on Liveboard, visualization, and Answer pages. You can also use these variables to define custom styles in the CSS file.
For more information, see Customize CSS.

The new version of the SDK introduces the following enums in the Action object:

You can use these enums to show, hide, or disable Sync to sheets, Sync to other apps, and Manage pipelines menu actions on a Liveboard visualization or Answer.

For more information, see Actions.

The AuthType property is modified and supports new enums.

To use your current SAML or OIDC authentication setup and redirect users to the IdP for authentication within the embedded iFrame, you can now use AuthType.EmbeddedSSO.
For more information, see Authentication.

The new version of the SDK supports firing events for Liveboard menu actions from the host application. The SDK introduces the following host event enumeration members for Liveboard objects:

For more information, see Events reference.

The new version of SDK includes the following new events:

For more information about how to register and handle these events, see Events and app integration.

The new version of SDK supports the showAlerts attribute, using which you can show or hide alerts and error messages in the embedded view.

The Action.CreateMonitor enumeration is available in the SDK for embedded ThoughtSpot environments on which the Monitor feature is enabled. For more information, see Show or hide UI actions.

Note the following changes:

The AddRemoveColumns event is now available in the SDK. For more information, see Events reference.

The following events are now available in the SDK:

For more information, see Events reference.

The SDK now includes the following new enumerations for UI actions:

For more information, see Show or hide UI actions.

The SDK now supports the UpdateRuntimeFilters host event. For more information, see Events reference.

Embed events

The SDK includes the following new event:

For more information, see Events reference.

Visible actions

You can now configure a set of ThoughtSpot UI actions as visible actions and display these actions in the embedded UI. If your embedded instance requires only a few actions, you can use the visibleActions API to show only these actions in the embedded ThoughtSpot UI.

For more information, see Show or hide UI actions.

Embed events

The SDK supports the following new events:

For more information, see Events reference.

Liveboard embed

The pinboardEmbed package includes the defaultHeight attribute that sets a minimum height for embedded objects on a pinboard page, and the corresponding visualization pages that a user can navigate to.

For more information, see Embed a pinboard.

Embed events

The SDK EmbedEvent library includes the following new events:

For more information, see Events reference.

Prefetch API

The prefetch API fetches static resources from a given URL before your application loads. Web browsers can then cache the prefetched resources locally and serve them from a user’s local disk. You can use this API to load the embedded objects faster and improve your application response time.

For more information, see Prefetch static resources.

In-app page navigation

The navigateToPage method in the SDK lets you provide quick and direct access to a specific pinboard, saved Answer, or an application page. You can add a custom menu action or button in your application UI that calls the navigateToPage method and leads your users to the page specified in the path parameter.

For more information, see Add a custom action for in-app navigation.

Full application embedding

The appEmbed SDK package includes the following new attributes:

For more information, see Embed full application.

Embed events

The SDK EmbedEvent library includes the following events:

For more information, see Events and app integration.

searchOptions

The searchEmbed SDK package introduces the searchOptions parameter for setting search tokens. The searchOptions parameter includes the following attributes:

For more information, see Embed ThoughtSpot search.

searchQuery

The searchQuery parameter in the searchEmbed SDK package is deprecated in the Visual Embed SDK version 1.3.1. Instead, you can use the searchOptions parameter to define the search token string.

For more information about searchOptions, see Embed ThoughtSpot search.

autoLogin

The SDK now supports logging in users automatically after a user session has expired.

For more information, see Embed user authentication.

shouldEncodeUrlQueryParams

You can now convert query parameters in the ThoughtSpot generated URLs to base64-encoded format. You can enable this attribute to secure your cluster from cross-site scripting attacks.

Data structure changes in custom action response payloads

To view a sample response payload, see Custom action response payload.

preventPinboardFilterRemoval

The pinboardEmbed SDK package now includes the preventPinboardFilterRemoval attribute. You can use this attribute to disable the filter removal action and thus prevent users from removing the filter chips added on a pinboard page.

For more information, see Embed a pinboard and Embed a visualization.

suppressNoCookieAccessAlert

You can now set custom alerts for noCookieAccess events. By default, the SDK triggers a noCookieAccess event and generates an alert when a user’s browser blocks third-party cookies. The suppressNoCookieAccessAlert allows you to disable this alert.

Support for fetching callback custom action payload in batches

The Visual Embed SDK now supports processing data in batches for callback custom action responses. The callback custom action event in the SDK package supports defining batchSize and offset values to paginate the Answer payload and send the records in batches.

For more information, see Callback custom action workflow.

SAML authentication

The Visual Embed SDK packages now include the noRedirect attribute as an optional parameter for the SAMLRedirect SSO AuthType. If you want to display the SAML authentication workflow in a pop-up window, instead of refreshing the application web page to direct users to the SAML login page, you can set the noRedirect attribute to true.

For more information, see the instructions for embedding ThoughtSpot pages, search, pinboard, and visualizations.

Pinboard actions

The More menu in the embedded Pinboard page now shows the following actions for pinboard and visualizations.

Visualization actions

Visualizations on a pinboard:

NoCookieAccess event

When a user accesses the embedded application from a web browser that has third-party cookies disabled, the Visual Embed SDK emits the NoCookieAccess event to notify the developer. Cookies are disabled by default in Safari. Users can enable third-party cookies in Safari’s Preferences setting page or use another web browser. To know how to enable this setting by default on Safari for a ThoughtSpot embedded instance, contact ThoughtSpot Support.