Creating Amazon QuickSight Q topics - Amazon QuickSight
Creating a topic

Creating Amazon QuickSight Q topics

 Applies to: Enterprise Edition 
   Intended audience: Amazon QuickSight administrators and authors 

To turn on questions for your datasets, you have to create a topic. QuickSight provides a guided workflow for creating topics. You can step out of the guided workflow and come back to it later, without disrupting your work.

There are two ways to create a topic:

  • Create the topic by selecting a dataset. When you create topics in Amazon QuickSight, you can add multiple datasets to them and also enable the topics in analyses.

  • Create the topic using an analysis. When you create a topic in an analysis, or link an existing topic to an analysis, automated data prep for Q learns from how you analyze your data and automatically applies this to your Q topic. For more information, see Using Q Topics on sheets in Amazon QuickSight.

After you share your topic with QuickSight readers and they use it to ask questions in the Q bar, you can see a summary of how the topic is performing. You can also see a list of everything users asked and how well Q responded, and any answers you have verified. Reviewing the feedback is important so that Q can continue to provide your business users with the correct visualizations and answers to their questions.

Creating a topic

Use the following procedure to create a topic.

To create a topic

  1. On the QuickSight start page, choose Topics.

    Image of the Topics section.

  2. On the Topics page that opens, choose New topic at upper right.

    Image of the create new topic button.

  3. On the New topic page that opens, do the following:

    1. For Topic name, enter a descriptive name for the topic.

      Your business users identify the topic by this name and use it to ask questions.

    2. For Description, enter a description for the topic.

      Your users can use this description to get more details about the topic.

    3. Choose Continue.

  4. On the Add data to topic page that opens, choose one of the following options:

    • To add one or more datasets that you own or have permission to, choose Datasets, and then select the dataset or datasets that you want to add.

    • To add datasets from dashboards that you have created or that have been shared with you, choose Datasets from a dashboards, and then select a dashboard from the list.

  5. Choose Add data.

    Your topic is created and the page for that topic opens. The next step is to configure the topic metadata to make it natural-language-friendly for your readers. For more information, see Making Amazon QuickSight Q topics natural-language-friendly. Or continue to the next topic to explore the topic workspace.