Creating Quick Sight topics
| Applies to: Enterprise Edition |
| Intended audience: Amazon Quick Suite administrators and authors |
To turn on questions for your datasets, you have to create a topic. Quick Sight 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.
There are two ways to create a topic:
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Create the topic by selecting a dataset. When you create topics in Quick Sight, you can add multiple datasets to them and also enable the topics in analyses.
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Create the topic using an analysis. When you create a topic in an analysis, or link an existing topic to an analysis, automated data prep learns from how you analyze your data and automatically applies this to your topic.
After you share your topic with Quick Suite readers and they use it to ask questions in the search bar, you can see a summary of how the topic is performing. You can also see a list of everything users asked and how well it was responded to, and any answers you have verified. Reviewing the feedback is important so that your business users can continue to be provided with the correct visualizations and answers to their questions.
Creating a topic
Use the following procedure to create a topic.
To create a topic
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On the Quick Suite homepage, choose Topics.
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On the Topics page that opens, choose Create Topic at upper right.
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On the Create Topic page that opens, do the following:
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For Topic name, enter a descriptive name for the topic.
Your business users identify the topic by this name and use it to ask questions.
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For Description, enter a description for the topic.
Your users can use this description to get more details about the topic.
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Choose Continue.
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On the Add data to topic page that opens, choose one of the following options:
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To add one or more datasets that you own or have permission to, choose Datasets, and then select the dataset or datasets that you want to add.
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To add datasets from dashboards that you have created or that have been shared with you, choose Datasets from a dashboard, and then select a dashboard from the list.
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Choose Add data.
Your topic is created and the page for that topic opens. The next step is to configure the topic metadata to make it natural-language-friendly for your readers. For more information, see Making Quick Sight topics natural-language-friendly. Or continue to the next topic to explore the topic workspace.
