Amazon QuickSight allows any Author to enable Q&A directly from their dashboards in one click without the need to create a Topic in QuickSight. To do this, publish your dashboard and check the Allow data Q&A checkbox from the dashboard publishing menu. When you turn on dashboard Q&A, you can choose which datasets to use for dashboard Q&A to ensure that your end users get the answers they need.
Dashboard Q&A uses the data values that are rendered on the dashboard. End users can ask for different slices of the same data that they see on the dashboard. For example, the dashboard might include a KPI visual that shows the month-over-month change in revenue, but the user might want to see the year-over-year change. The user can do this by asking a question that references the fields and values present on the dashboard. The user does not need to know the exact field and value names that are used in the raw data.
The following table compares feature availability between dashboard Q&A and topic Q&A.
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Allows users in all roles to ask and answer questions of data |
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Allows author and admin roles to enable data Q&A on dashboards |
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Suported in QuickSight console embedding |
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Ability to add reviewed answers |
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Ability to customize Q&A-specific metadata |
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Ability to support autocomplete for data values |
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Use the procedure below to enable dashboard Q&A on a QuickSight dashboard.
To enable dashboard Q&A on a dashboard
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Open the QuickSight console
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Open the analysis that the dashboard that you want to publish with Q&A enabled.
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Choose Publish.
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Check the Allow data Q&A check box.
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(Optional) Choose MANAGE Q&A to choose which datasets you want to include in the dashboard Q&A experience. By default, all datasets that are used by the dashboard are included.
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Choose APPLY CHANGES, and then choose Publish dashboard.
After you publish a dashboard with the dashboard Q&A experience enabled, users can ask questions about their data with the Ask a question about this dashboard input at the top of the dashboard.
QuickSight allows any user to ask questions on dashboards that have dashboard Q&A enabled. However, dashboard Q&A is a feature of Amazon Q and therefore incurs the associated enablement fee. QuickSight admins can disable this feature at the account level at any time. Use the following procedure to disable dashboard Q&A across an entire QuickSight account.
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Open the QuickSight console
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Choose the user icon in the top right, and then choose Manage QuickSight.
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Choose Security & permissions.
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Navigate to the Amazon Q section, and then choose Manage.
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Toggle Manage Dashboard Q&A off.
When you toggle Manage Dashboard Q&A off, dashboard Q&A is removed from any dashboards that have dashboard Q&A enabled. If your QuickSight account does not have Pro users or topics, this action stops the Amazon Q enablement fee from billing your QuickSight account. This setting does not impact Pro users or existing topics in QuickSight. For more information about opting out of Amazon Q in QuickSight, see Opting out of Amazon Q in QuickSight.
