What’s new

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 homepage 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 homepage 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 homepage experience is disabled by default. To enable it, you must set the modularHomeExperience property to true in the AppEmbed component.

The new navigation and homepage 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 more information, see Sage Coach.

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.

ThoughtSpot does not display AI-suggested search responses if the Search Assist feature is enabled.

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 more information, see Enable Search Assist.

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.

For more information, see REST API v2 Reference.

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: