In ThoughtSpot, you can follow Pinboards and schedule email notifications to regularly review the visuals that represent dynamic data.

When you follow a pinboard, ThoughtSpot sends you regular emails that contain the snapshot of the pinboard. You can change the scheduling of this email to suit your business needs.

Follow Pinboards

Complete the following steps to follow a Pinboard:

  1. Click Pinboards on the top navigation bar.

  2. On the Pinboard list page, select a Pinboard by clicking on it.

  3. Click Follow at the top right corner of the Pinboard.

    Follow Pinboard

    This action opens the scheduler. See Schedule Pinboard reports.

Notice that after you configure the schedule, the Pinboard appears as Following.

Followed Pinboard

Schedule Pinboard reports

In the Follow scheduler, specify the email schedule by marking the appropriate options in the pulldown menus. The default schedule is weekly, on the day and time when you configure the schedule.

Weekly
By default, the schedule is weekly, on the day of the week and at the time you create the schedule.
You can select another day of the week, and then set the time.
Daily
Specify every weekday (every working day), or every day of the week. Then set the time.
Monthly
Specify the day of the month, from 1 onwards. Then set the time.

Schedule weekly Pinboard notifications

Schedule daily Pinboard notifications

Schedule monthly Pinboard notifications

Click Save.

If the user account is not configured with an email, you must supply one at this time.

Change the schedule

To change the existing time interval and the timing of notifications, click Following in the top right corner of the Pinboard.

When the scheduling interface appears, make the necessary changes, and click Save.

Unfollow Pinboard

To stop following a Pinboard, click Following in the top right corner.

When the scheduling interface appears, click Unfollow.

Unfollow Pinboard