Turn on the Dashboard Q&A experience in Amazon Quick Sight - Amazon Quick Suite

Turn on the Dashboard Q&A experience in Amazon Quick Sight

Quick Suite allows any Author to enable Q&A directly from their dashboards in one click without the need to create a Topic in Quick Sight. 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 queries all rows and columns in the included datasets - beyond what is visible in the dashboard. To protect sensitive or confidential data, enable row-level security (RLS) and/or column-level security (CLS).

The following table compares feature availability between dashboard Q&A and topic Q&A.

Q&A feature Dashboard Q&A Topic Q&A

Allows users in all roles to ask and answer questions of data

Yes

Yes

Allows author and admin roles to enable data Q&A on dashboards

Yes

No (Pro users only)

Suported in Quick Suite console embedding

No

Yes

Ability to add reviewed answers

No

Yes

Ability to customize Q&A-specific metadata

No

Yes

Ability to support autocomplete for data values

No

Yes

Use the procedure below to enable dashboard Q&A on a Quick Sight dashboard.

To enable dashboard Q&A on a dashboard
  1. Open the Quick Suite console.

  2. Open the analysis that the dashboard that you want to publish with Q&A enabled.

  3. Choose Publish.

  4. Check the Allow data Q&A check box.

  5. (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.

  6. 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.

Quick Suite allows any user to ask questions on dashboards that have dashboard Q&A enabled. However, dashboard Q&A is a feature that incurs the associated enablement fee. Quick Suite admins can disable this feature at the account level at any time. Use the following procedure to disable dashboard Q&A across an entire Quick Suite account.

  1. Open the Quick Suite console.

  2. Choose the user icon in the top right, and then choose Manage Quick Suite.

  3. Choose Security & permissions.

  4. Navigate to the Amazon Q section, and then choose Manage.

  5. 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 Quick Suite account does not have Pro users or topics, this action stops the Amazon Q enablement fee from billing your Quick Suite account. This setting does not impact Pro users or existing topics in Quick Suite. For more information about opting out of Generative BI, see Opting out of Generative BI.