ThoughtSpot Developer portal

The ThoughtSpot Developer portal allows developer users to explore the embed APIs, preview code snippets, and view developer documentation.

The ThoughtSpot Developer portal allows you to explore ThoughtSpot SDK, APIs, and build your web applications with ThoughtSpot content. The portal enables business application owners and developers to learn about ThoughtSpot APIs, and evaluate ThoughtSpot features that are available for integration. The portal also allows authorized users to customize and rebrand the look and feel of the UI and add custom actions to an embedded visualization or pinboard.

Access Developer portal

You can access the developer portal from your ThoughtSpot application instance or the ThoughtSpot Developers website.

If you have a ThoughtSpot user account:

Log in to your ThoughtSpot application instances.
Make sure your user account has admin or developer privileges.

For more information on configuring a user group with developer privileges, see the ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.
Navigate to the Develop tab.

If you do not have a ThoughtSpot user account:

Go to developers.thoughtspot.com.
From the header bar, click Playground.
Enter your name and email address.
Click Try Live Playground.

Note: You can also register for a free trial and evaluate the SDK and APIs on the ThoughtSpot free trial cluster.

Find your way around

The Developer portal includes several sections to assist you through your embedding journey.

Home
The Home page of the Developer portal provides a pictorial view of the ThoughtSpot features that you can integrate with your applications. The homepage also includes links to the Developer Guides and Playground to preview the code snippet.

Guide
The Guide menu displays the ThoughtSpot Embed Developer Documentation. The documentation portal provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the ThoughtSpot Visual Embed SDK and REST APIs to integrate ThoughtSpot features into your application.

Playground
The Playground provides an API playground to explore the following ThoughtSpot features.

Search
Visualizations
Pinboards
Full application

Customizations
For ThoughtSpot users with administrator and developer privileges, the Developer portal displays the following customization menu items:

Styles
A set of customization controls for white-labeling and rebranding the embedded ThoughtSpot content.
Actions
Configuration settings for creating custom actions in the ThoughtSpot UI to trigger workflows in your application, or invoke a URL with ThoughtSpot data as the payload.
Settings
Security controls to define access to the embedded ThoughtSpot content from external applications.

Note: The Customization settings are available only for the ThoughtSpot developer or admin users.

Explore the Visual Embed APIs

The Playground allows developers to try the Visual Embed APIs, preview the code, test it, and familiarize themselves with the application controls.

Note: If you have added a custom action and you want to disable or hide this custom action on a Playground page by using the Modify available actions checkbox, make sure you specify the ID of the custom action in the disabledActions and hiddenActions attribute.

Search

To embed search:

Go to Playground > Search.
Select a data source or a saved search answer.
If required, enable the User experience customization settings.

Collapse data panel
Minimizes the data panel on the left navigation bar.

Hide data panel Hides the default data panel. You can use this function to create a custom data panel when embedding the search module in your application.

Hide chart or table
Hides the visualizations displayed as search results. You can use this function to create your own visualization when embedding search in your application.

Modify available actions
Disables or hides the specified action menu items in the More menu , or the menu bar in the search answer page. You can use this function to restrict user access to certain features, or to remove the menu items that are not applicable to your application context.
- To disable an action menu item, specify the menu string in the disabledActions attribute. For example, to disable the Replay Search action menu item from the More menu , specify the Replay Search action menu string in the disabledActions attribute as shown here:
```
disabledActions: [Action.ReplaySearch]
```
- To display a tooltip for the disabled menu item, specify the reason for disabling the menu item in the disabledActionReason attribute.
- To hide an action menu item, specify the action text string in the hiddenActions attribute:
```
hiddenActions: [Action.ReplaySearch]
```
  For a complete list of action menu items and the corresponding strings to use for disabling menu items, see Actions.
Add search tokens
Enables constructing a search query using search tokens.

In the following example, to fetch the total revenue data by shipping mode, the searchQuery string uses the Column search token:
```
searchQuery: "[Revenue] by [Shipmode]"
```
For more information on the search tokens and query string components, see Components of a search query.

Handle custom actions
Allows you to view the code for a custom action event. If the embedded instance has a custom action, use this checkbox to view the event generated by the custom action and send ThoughtSpot data as a payload.
Click Run.

Visualization

To embed a visualization:

Go to Playground > Visualization.
Select a pinboard or visualization.
If required, enable the User experience customization settings.

Modify available actions
Disables or hides the specified action menu items in the More menu on the visualization page. You can use this function to restrict user access to certain features, or to remove the menu items that are not applicable to your application context.
- To disable an action menu item, specify the menu string in disabledActions attribute. For example, to disable the Download action menu item from the More menu , set the value of the disabledActions attribute to Action.Download:
```
disabledActions: [Action.Download]
```
- To display a tooltip for the disabled menu item, specify the reason for disabling the menu item in the disabledActionReason attribute.
- To hide an action menu item, specify the action text string in the hiddenActions attribute:
```
hiddenActions: [Action.Download]
```
  For a complete list of action menu items and the corresponding strings to use for disabling menu items, see Actions.
Set runtime filters
Applies Runtime Filters to a visualization.
Runtime filters provide the ability to filter data at the time of retrieval.
To apply Runtime Filters, pass the columnName, operator, and value parameters in the runtimeFilters attribute.
```
 runtimeFilters: [{
   columnName: 'color',
   operator: 'EQ',
   values: [ 'red' ]
 }]
```
For more information, see Apply a Runtime Filter.

Handle custom actions
Allows you to view the code for a custom action event. If the embedded instance has a custom action, use this checkbox to view the event generated by the custom action and send ThoughtSpot data as a payload.
Click Run.

Pinboard

To embed a pinboard:

Go to Playground > Pinboard.
Select a pinboard.
If required, enable the User experience customization settings.

Modify available actions
Disables or hides the specified action menu items in the More menu , or the menu bar on the Pinboards page. You can use this function to restrict user access to certain features, or to remove the menu items that are not applicable to your application context.
- To disable an action menu item, specify the menu string in the disabledActions attribute. For example, to disable the Download As PDF action menu item from the More menu , set the value of the disabledActions attribute as Action.DownloadAsPdf:
```
disabledActions: [Action.DownloadAsPdf]
```
- To display a tooltip for the disabled menu item, specify the reason for disabling the menu item in the disabledActionReason attribute.
- To hide an action menu item, specify the action text string in the hiddenActions attribute:
```
hiddenActions: [Action.DownloadAsPdf]
```
  For a complete list of action menu items and the corresponding strings to use for disabling menu items, see Actions.
Set runtime filters
Applies Runtime Filters to a visualization in a pinboard.
Runtime filters provide the ability to filter data at the time of retrieval.
To apply Runtime Filters, pass the columnName, operator, and value parameters in the runtimeFilters attribute.
```
 runtimeFilters: [{
   columnName: 'Revenue',
   operator: 'EQ',
   values: [ 100000 ]
  }]
```
For more information, see Apply a Runtime Filter.

Handle custom actions
Allows you to view the code for a custom action event. If the embedded instance has a custom action, use this checkbox to view the event generated by the custom action and send ThoughtSpot data as a payload.
Click Run.

Full Application

To embed the full ThoughtSpot application:

Go to Playground > Full app.
Select a tab to set a default page view for embedded application users.
If required, enable User experience customization settings.

Modify available actions
Disables or hides the specified action menu items in the More menu , or the menu bar on the Pinboards page.
- To disable an action menu item, specify the menu string in the disabledActions attribute. For example, to disable the Download action menu item from the More menu , set the value of the disabledActions attribute as Action.Share:
```
disabledActions: [Action.Share]
```
- To display a tooltip for the disabled menu item, specify the reason for disabling the menu item in the disabledActionReason attribute.
- To hide an action menu item, specify the action text string in the hiddenActions attribute:
```
  hiddenActions: [Action.Share]
```
  For a complete list of action menu items and the corresponding strings to use for disabling or hiding menu items, see Actions.
Show navigation bar
Displays the ThoughtSpot top navigation bar. By default, the navigation bar is hidden.

Navigate to URL Allows you to define a specific URL path for loading a ThoughtSpot page. If a particular ThoughtSpot page is set as a homepage using the pageID attribute and the URL path is also defined in the path attribute, the path definition takes precedence.

Set runtime filters
Enables Runtime Filters on a visualization in a pinboard. Runtime filters provide the ability to filter data at the time of retrieval. To apply Runtime Filters, pass the columnName, operator, and value parameters in the runtimeFilters attribute.
```
runtimeFilters: [{
  columnName: 'Revenue',
  operator: 'EQ',
  values: [ 100000 ]
 }]
```
For more information, see Apply a Runtime Filter.

Customize embedded content

To white-label and rebrand the embedded ThoughtSpot content, click Customizations > Styles.
To add custom actions to the More menu on a visualization or pinboards page, go to Customizations > Actions.
If you are a ThoughtSpot admin user and you want to configure security settings, such as CORS and CSP domains, trusted authentication service, and SAML redirect domains, go to Customizations > Settings.