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Version 8.4.1-sw, September 2022

This page provides information about new features and enhancements available for embedded ThoughtSpot instances.

Version 8.4.1-sw, September 2022🔗

Support for ThoughtSpot Everywhere and Visual Embed SDK🔗

ThoughtSpot Software clusters now support ThoughtSpot Everywhere and embedding with Visual Embed SDK!

Starting from the 8.4.1-sw release, customers with a license to embed ThoughtSpot can use ThoughtSpot Everywhere features and Visual Embed SDK to embed ThoughtSpot objects in their apps.

Visual Embed SDK🔗

The Visual Embed SDK provides Javascript-based embed packages and client libraries to help you embed the following ThoughtSpot components in your web application:

Developers can also customize embedded objects using the APIs in the SDK:

modify the layout of the embedded Search page
customize the layout and home tabs in the embedded ThoughtSpot view
show or hide UI actions
apply runtime filters
trigger events and respond to events with an action
handle callback custom actions that trigger a callback and send ThoughtSpot data in a response payload to the parent app.

Supported SDK version🔗

The minimum SDK version required for embedding ThoughtSpot Software in your app is 1.12.0.

You can upgrade to a later version if required. However, you must exercise caution before upgrading to a new version because the new versions may introduce breaking changes. The new version may also include APIs, methods, and attributes for features that are not yet available on your ThoughtSpot Software release.

For more information about the SDK versions, supported methods and classes, see Visual Embed Changelog and Visual Embed SDK Reference Guide.

Developer portal🔗

Users with administrator or developer privileges can now access the Develop tab in the UI.

The Develop tab provides access to Visual Embed SDK playground, style, action, and link customization features, and advanced security options for your embedded instance.

You can also REST API v1 and REST API v2 ^BETA Playground. request and response workflows. The REST API v2 ^BETA Playground provides an interactive code panel to explore the API request and response workflows, build code samples, and view API documentation.

For more information, see ThoughtSpot Developer portal.

REST API v1 features and enhancements🔗

Liveboard data API🔗

The /tspublic/v1/pinboarddata endpoint now allows retrieving transient content from a Liveboard. The transient_pinboard_content parameter allows you to pass a script to fetch the unsaved changes for a given Liveboard.

For more information, see Liveboard data API.

Data connection API🔗

The following endpoints are now available for data connection queries:
- POST /tspublic/v1/connection/fetchConnection
- POST /tspublic/v1/connection/fetchLiveColumns
The /tspublic/v1/connection/create and /tspublic/v1/connection/update endpoints now allow configuring and modifying a connection without importing tables.

For more information, see Data connection APIs.

Session API🔗

REST clients using Postman for API calls can now send a POST request to the /tspublic/v1/session/auth/token endpoint.

In the earlier releases, unauthenticated clients were not allowed to make an API call to /tspublic/v1/session/auth/token via Postman.

Metadata API🔗

The authorguid attribute in /tspublic/v1/metadata/list now allows you to filter metadata objects by author GUIDs in API response. For more information, see Get a list of metadata objects.