Organizing assets into folders for Amazon QuickSight - Amazon QuickSight

Organizing assets into folders for Amazon QuickSight

 Applies to: Enterprise Edition 

In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, your team members can create personal and shared folders to add hierarchical structure to QuickSight asset management. Using folders, people can more easily organize, navigate through, and discover dashboards, analyses, datasets, data sources, and topics. Within a folder, you can still use your usual tools to search for assets or to add assets to your favorites list.

You can use the following types of folders with QuickSight:

  • Personal folders to organize work for yourself.

    Personal folders are visible only to the person who owns them. You can't transfer ownership of personal folders to anyone else.

  • Shared folders:

    • Shared folders organize work and simplify sharing among multiple people. To create and manage shared folders, you need to be a QuickSight administrator.

    • Shared restricted folders are a type of shared folder in QuickSight that ensure that assets remain in the shared folder. Assets that are created from assets that exist within a shared restricted folder must also stay in the restricted folder. Assets that are located in restricted folders can't be moved or shared outside of the restricted folder. For example, if you create a dataset that uses a data source that's located in a shared restricted folder, the new dataset can't be moved outside of that shared restricted folder.

      Restricted folders can only be created with the QuickSight CreateFolder API operation.

    All shared folders are visible to people who have access to them.

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