Adding sheets - Amazon QuickSight

Adding sheets

A sheet is a set of visuals that are viewed together in a single page. When you create an analysis, you place visuals in the workspace on a sheet. You can imagine this as a sheet from a newspaper, except that it is filled with data visualizations. You can add more sheets, and make them work separately or together in your analysis.

The top sheet, also called the default sheet, is the one on the far left. This sheet displays on top in an analysis or dashboard. Each analysis can contain up to 20 sheets.

You can share analyses and publish dashboards with multiple sheets. You can also schedule email reports for any combination of sheets in an analysis.

When you create a new analysis or a new sheet in an existing analysis, you choose whether to make the new sheet an Interactive sheet or a Paginated report. This way, you can have analyses for interactive sheets only, analyses for paginated reports only, or you can have an analysis that includes both interactive sheets and paginated reports.

An Interactive Sheet is a collection of data expressed in visuals that users can interact with when the sheet is published to a dashboard. QuickSight authors can add different controls and filters to their interactive sheets. Dashboard viewers can use these to gain detailed information from the published data. For more information on interactive sheets, see Working with interactive sheets in Amazon QuickSight.

A Paginated Report is a collection of tables, charts, and visuals that are used to convey business critical information, such as daily transaction summaries or weekly business reports. In order to create paginated reports in QuickSight, add the Paginated reporting Add-on to your Amazon QuickSight account. To get the Paginated reporting Add-on and start working with paginated reports, see Working with paginated reports in Amazon QuickSight.

Use the following list of actions to work with sheets:

  • To add a new sheet, choose the plus sign (+) to the right of the sheet tabs, choose the type of sheet that you want, and then choose ADD.

  • To rename a sheet, choose the name of the sheet and start typing. Rename is also available from the sheet menu ( Downward-pointing chevron icon, typically used to indicate expansion or more options. ).

  • To duplicate a sheet, choose the name of the sheet, then choose Duplicate from the sheet menu ( Downward-pointing chevron icon, typically used to indicate expansion or more options. ). You can only duplicate a sheet if Autosave is turned on.

  • To duplicate an interactive sheet and convert it to a paginated report, choose the name of the sheet, then choose Duplicate to report from the sheet menu. You can't convert a paginated report to an interactive sheet.

  • To delete a sheet, choose the name of the sheet, then choose Delete from the sheet menu ( Downward-pointing chevron icon, typically used to indicate expansion or more options. ). You can't delete the sheet if it's the only sheet in the analysis.

  • To change the order of the sheets, choose the name of the sheet and drag it to a new position.

  • To copy a visual to a new sheet, choose Duplicate visual to from the on-visual menu. Then choose the target sheet. Filters exist only on the sheet that you create them on. To duplicate filters, recreate them on the target sheet.

You can use the parameter controls on the top sheet to control multiple sheets. To do this, open each sheet that you want to work with the parameter. Then add a filter that uses the same parameter used in the control on the top sheet. Or, if you want a new sheet to operate independently, you can add parameters and parameter controls to it that are separate from those on the top sheet.