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


Quick 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)](row-level-security.md) and/or [column-level security (CLS)](restrict-access-to-a-data-set-using-column-level-security.md). 

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  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/success_icon.svg) Yes  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/success_icon.svg) Yes  | 
|  Allows author and admin roles to enable data Q&A on dashboards  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/success_icon.svg) Yes  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/negative_icon.svg) No (Pro users only)  | 
|  Suported in Quick console embedding  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/negative_icon.svg) No  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/success_icon.svg) Yes  | 
|  Ability to add reviewed answers  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/negative_icon.svg) No  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/success_icon.svg) Yes  | 
|  Ability to customize Q&A-specific metadata  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/negative_icon.svg) No  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/success_icon.svg) Yes  | 
|  Ability to support autocomplete for data values  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/negative_icon.svg) No  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/success_icon.svg) 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 console](https://quicksight.aws.amazon.com/).

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

1. Choose **Publish**.

1. Check the **Allow data Q&A** check box.

1. (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.

1. 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 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 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 account.

1. Open the [Quick console](https://quicksight.aws.amazon.com/).

1. Choose the user icon in the top right, and then choose **Manage Quick**.

1. Choose **Security & permissions**.

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

1. 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 account does not have Pro users or topics, this action stops the Amazon Q enablement fee from billing your Quick account. This setting does not impact Pro users or existing topics in Quick. For more information about opting out of Generative BI, see [Opting out of Generative BI](generative-bi-opt-out.md).