Learn how to apply a runtime filter.

Note: Starting in December 2021, ThoughtSpot rebranded pinboards as Liveboards. For backward compatibility, we currently support internal processes and external methods that use the older naming convention.

Runtime filters allow you to apply filters to the data returned by the APIs or the visualization or Liveboard you’re embedding. Before you apply a filter, make sure you understand their limitations.

The filters are specified in the request URL as parameters. Before you can use runtime filter(s), you need to do these procedures:

1. Embed a visualization and Liveboard using the Visual Embed SDK and authenticate to ThoughtSpot.
2. Use the Data API to retrieve a search answer or Liveboard.

To add a runtime filter to your API call or the embedded object:

1. Construct the URL for embedding the visualization or making a REST API call.
2. Paste the URL into a text editor.
3. Append the runtime filter to the URL, using the runtime filter operators. The format for the runtime filter is:

   • For Embedding a Liveboard:

     http://<thoughtspot_server>:<port>/
     ?col1=<column_name\>&op1=<operator\>&val1=<value\>
     #/pinboard/<pinboard_id>
     

   • For Embedding a visualization:

     http://<thoughtspot_server>:<port>/
     ?col1=<column_name\>&op1=<operator\>&val1=<value\>
     #/pinboard/<pinboard_id>/<visualization_id>
     

   • For the REST API with a Liveboard:

     http://<thoughtspot_server>:<port>
     /callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/pinboarddata
     ?id=<pinboard_id>
     &col1=<column_name\>&op1=<operator\>&val1=<value\>
     

   • For the REST API with a visualization:

     http://<thoughtspot_server>:<port>
     /callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/pinboarddata
     ?id=<pinboard_id>&vizid=%5B<visualization_id>%5D
     &col1=<column_name\>&op1=<operator\>&val1=<value\>
     

4. To add additional filters on a particular column, you can specify multiple values by separating them with & (ampersand) as in the example:

    val1=foo&val1=bar
   

   You can also use the IN operator for multiple values, as shown in this example:

    col1=<column_name>&op1=IN&val1=<value>&val1=<value>
   

5. Add additional filters by incrementing the number at the end of each parameter in the Runtime Filter for each filter you want to add, for example, col2, op2, val2 and so on.

This example passes multiple variables to a single column as well as multiple columns. It shows that data values are returned as epoch.

  col1=region&op1=IN&val1=midwest&val1=south&val1=northeast
  &col2=date&op2=BET&val2=<epoch_start>&val2=<epoch_end>