After you connect Thoughtspot, Elementary will automatically and continuously extend the lineage to the liveboard and answer level. This will provide you end-to-end data lineage to understand your downstream dependencies, called exposures.

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Enable Trusted Authentication on a priviliged user

For Elementary to access your Thoughtspot instance’s API on your behalf of your user, your user should have Trusted Authentication enabled.
To enable Trusted Authentication on a user, please follow the official Thoughtspot documentation.
Make sure you copy the generated token (Secret Key) as you will need it to connect Thoughtspot to Elementary.

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User Privileges

For an easy integration, it’s recommended for the connected user to be an administrator (ADMINISTRATION privilege), this will ensure Elementary can access all of your Liveboards and Answers.
It is also possible though to integrate with a regular user, just make sure it can download data (has DATADOWNLOADING privilege) for all the relvant ThoughtSpot entities you want Elementary to discover and show lineage for.

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Connecting Thoughtspot to Elementary

Navigate to the Account settings > Environments and choose the environment to which you would like to connect Elementary. Choose the Thoughtspot connection and provide the following details to validate and complete the integration.
  • User Name: The username of the user you want to use to connect to Thoughtspot.
  • Secret Key: The token generated for the user you want to use to connect to Thoughtspot (from the previous step).
  • Base URL: The URL of your Thoughtspot instance. This would be 'https://<cluster-name>.thoughtspot.cloud' by default, or your custom domain if you’ve configured one. If you’re unsure, just check the URL you use to access your Thoughtspot instance in the browser.

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Limitations

Worksheets or Models are currently excluded from computed lineage graph - which will point from DWH directly to your Liveboards or Answers.