# Navigating Topics
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In Quick Sight, there is more than one way to create and manage a topic. You can begin on an Amazon Quick home or "start" page. Or, you can begin inside of an analysis.

**Topics**
+ [From an Amazon Quick home page](starting-from-home.md)
+ [From an Amazon Quick Sight analysis](starting-from-sheets.md)
+ [Navigating questions in an Amazon Quick Sight analysis](starting-from-questions-on-sheets.md)

# From an Amazon Quick home page
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From your Quick start page, you can create and manage topics by selecting **Topics** in the navigation pane at left. Quick provides a guided workflow for creating topics. You can step out of the guided workflow and come back to it later, without disrupting your work. 

When you create a topic, your business users can ask questions about it. At any time, you can open a topic to change it or review how it's performing.

To open a topic, choose the topic name.

If at any time you want to return to a list of all your topics, choose **All topics** at left of the topic workspace.

# From an Amazon Quick Sight analysis
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To start from an Amazon Quick Sight analysis, open the analysis that you want to use with automated data prep .

To open or create a topic, choose the topic icon in the top navigation bar.

At any time, you can open a topic to change it or review how it's performing.

To open a topic from an analysis, choose the topic name in the top navigation bar, if it isn't already displayed. Then select the vertical ellipsis icon (` ⋮ `) on the top navigation bar. 

To view information about the topic, select **About topic**.

To view the data fields included in the topic, select **Data fields** in the tab list.

# Navigating questions in an Amazon Quick Sight analysis
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By navigating through the questions and answers for a topic in an analysis, you can learn how the topic is being used. This information can inform you to make adjustments if necessary. 

Starting from within an analysis that is already linked to a topic, select the search bar on the top navigation bar and then enter a question. The answer displays on a topic screen that also displays all the available options to work with the topic in an analysis. 
+ To change the type of visual displayed in the answer, select the type icon (which resembles a bar chart).
+ To view improvement suggestions, select the speech bubble, which is highlighted if you have unviewed suggestions.
+ To view insights related to a question, select the light bulb icon.
+ To add or remove a question from the pinboard, toggle the icon for **Add to pinboard** or **Remove from pinboard**. You can view the pinboard by selecting the pinboard icon from the top navigation bar.
+ To view information about this topic, select the circled lowercase *i* (` ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/status-info.png) `).
+ Select the ellipsis menu ( ` … `) to do one of the following actions: 
  + **Export to CSV** – Export the data displayed in the selected visual.
  + **Copy Request ID** – Capture the request ID of this process for troubleshooting. Amazon Quick Sight generates an alphanumeric request ID to uniquely identify each process. 
  + **Share this visual** – Securely share a URL for the topic used in the visual.
  + **Answer breakdown** – To view a detailed explanation of your answer.

At the bottom of the topic screen, you can add or change variations on the question by selecting **Edit question variants**. Also at the bottom, when you are satisfied with the question and answer, mark the topic as reviewed by choosing **Mark as reviewed**. Or, if you see that a previously reviewed topic needs further review, choose **Unmark as reviewed**. 

At any time, you can open a topic to change it or review how it's performing. To work directly with the settings for a topic, such as which fields are included, or what synonyms they have, use the **Topics** page.

**To open a topic linked to an analysis**

1. Open the Amazon Quick Sight **Topics** page from the Quick start page, by selecting **Topics** in the navigation pane at left.

   If you want to keep your analysis open, you can open the **Topics** page in a new browser tab or window.

1. To open a topic, choose the topic name. If you recently navigated away from the analysis page, the name is probably still displayed in the search bar at the top of the screen.

1. If at any time you want to return to a list of all your topics, choose **All topics** at left of the topic workspace.