Working with sections

A section is a container for different visuals that grow vertically to contain contents. Each section is rendered to completion, one after the other, accommodating configured page breaks and section settings. Headers and footers are special types of section that have a predefined size, location, and repetition throughout each page of a report.

Each section in a paginated report can be formatted independently from other sections in the report. Visuals can be dragged and dropped anywhere you want, similar to a free-form layout in an interactive sheet. Visuals can also be overlapped, resized, or brought forward or to the back of the section. Additionally, you can change the margins within a section to make the grouping of visuals stand out from the rest of the report.

Every report in QuickSight needs at least one section. You can add multiple sections to group different sets of visuals together, or to control the rendering order for different groupings of visuals.

Each paginated report sheet supports up to 30 sections, including headers and footers.