Scheduling and sending reports by email - Amazon QuickSight

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Scheduling and sending reports by email

In Enterprise edition, you can send a dashboard in report form either once or on a schedule (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly). You can email the reports to users or groups who share your Amazon QuickSight subscription. To receive email reports, the users or group members must meet the following conditions:

  • They are part of your Amazon QuickSight subscription.

  • You already shared the dashboard with them.

  • They have completed sign-up process to activate their subscription as Amazon QuickSight readers, authors, or admins.

  • Amazon QuickSight can't send scheduled emails to more than 5,000 members.

Amazon QuickSight generates a custom email snapshot for each user or group based on their data permissions, which are defined in the dashboard. Row Level Security (RLS), Column Level Security (CLS) and Dynamic Default Parameters for email reports works for both scheduled and ad hoc (one-time) emails.

Subscribers who are readers see an option for Reports on the dashboard when an email report is available for that dashboard. They can use the Schedules menu to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the emails. For more information, see Subscribing to email reports in Amazon QuickSight.

You can create up to five schedules for each dashboard.

How billing works for email reports

Authors and admins can receive any number of email reports at no extra charge.

For readers (users in the reader role), it costs one session per report, up to the monthly maximum. After receiving an email report, the reader gets a session credit to access the dashboard at no additional cost during the same month. Reader session credits don't carry over to the next billing month.

For a reader, charges for email reports and interactive sessions both accrue up to the monthly maximum charge. For readers who hit the monthly max charge, there are no further charges, and they can receive as many additional email reports as they need.

Configuring email report settings for a dashboard in Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition

 Applies to: Enterprise Edition 

In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, you can email a report from any sheet in a dashboard. You can send reports from interactive dashboards and paginated report sheets. Schedules include settings for when to send them, the contents to include, and who receives the email. You can view a sample report and a list of the datasets used in the report. To set up or change the schedule sent from a dashboard, make sure that you're an owner or co-owner of the dashboard.

If you have access to the dashboard, you can change your subscription options by opening your view of the dashboard. For more information on how this works, see Subscribing to email reports in Amazon QuickSight.

Scheduling options that are available for an email report include the following:

  • Once (Does not repeat) – Sends the report only once at the date and time that you choose.

  • Daily – Repeats daily at the time that you choose.

  • Weekly – Repeats each week on the same day or days at the time that you choose. You can also use this option to send reports in weekly intervals, such as every other week or every three weeks.

  • Monthly – Repeats each month on the same day of the month at the time that you choose. You can also use this option to send reports on specific days of the month, such as the second Wednesday or the last Friday of each month.

  • Yearly – Repeats each year on the same day of the month or months selected at the time that you choose. You can also use this option to send reports on specific days or sets of days in selected months. For example, you can configure a report to be sent on the first Monday of January, March, and September, or on July 14th, or on the second day of February, April, and June each year.

  • Custom – Configure your own scheduled report that best fits your business needs.

You can customize the title of the report, the optional email subject, and the body text.

Although you can configure the report so that everyone who has access receives a copy, this is not usually the best plan. We recommend limiting automated emails, especially those sent to groups. You can start with a small number of subscribers by choosing specific people from the access list. Verify your company's policy before subscribing anyone to a subscription.

You can directly add people to a report subscription in these ways:

  • (Recommended) Choose recipients from the provided access list to specify and maintain a list of people who you want to email reports to. You can use the search box to find people by email or group name.

  • To send reports to all of the dashboard's subscribers, choose Send email report to all users with access to dashboard when prompted.

Anyone else who wants to get the emails can open the dashboard and set their own subscription options to either opt in or opt out.

Important

When you share the dashboard with new QuickSight user names or groups, they automatically start receiving the email reports. If you don't want this to happen, you need to edit the report settings each time you add people to the dashboard.

For existing email schedules, you can pause the schedule in Amazon QuickSight while you make changes. In the Schedules pane, you can pause or resume a scheduled report with the toggle that appears under each report. Pausing a report does not delete the report's schedule from QuickSight.

If your report includes custom visuals, be aware that you can't include images from a private network in an email report, even if you can access the images. If you want to include an image, use a publicly available one.

Before you begin, make sure that you are using Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition and that you have shared the dashboard with intended recipients.

To create or change an email report
  1. Open Amazon QuickSight and choose Dashboards on the navigation pane at left.

  2. Open a dashboard to configure its email report.

  3. At top right, choose Schedules, and then choose Schedules.

  4. Choose ADD SCHEDULE.

  5. In the New schedule pane that appears, enter the schedule name. Optionally, add a description for the new schedule.

  6. In the Content tab, toggle the PDF, CSV, or Excel switches to choose the report format. CSV and Excel format are currently supported for paginated reports.

  7. In the Sheet dropdown on the Content tab, choose the sheet that you want to schedule a report for.

    If you choose CSV or Excel, choose the table or pivot table visuals from any sheet of the dashboard that you want to include in the report. You can select up to 5 visuals for each schedule.

    If you choose Excel, one Excel workbook is generated as a final output.

  8. In the Dates tab, choose the frequency for the report in the Repeat dropdown. If you're not sure, choose Send once (Does not repeat).

  9. For Start date, choose the start date and runtime that you want to send the first report on.

  10. For Timezone, choose the time zone from the dropdown.

  11. In the Email tab, for E-mail subject line, enter a custom subject line, or leave it blank to use the report title.

  12. Enter the email addresses of the QuickSight group name of the users or groups that you want to receive the report. You can also select the Send to all users with access box to send the report to everyone that has access to the dashboard in your account.

  13. For Email header, enter the header that you want the emal report to show.

  14. (Optional) For E-mail body text, leave it blank or enter a custom message to display at the beginning of the email.

  15. (Optional) For PDF attachments, you can choose Include sheet in email body to show the first page of the PDF snapshot in the email's body.

  16. Choose the method of attachment that you want the report to use. The following options are available.

    • File attachment– uploads an attachment of the snapshot to the email. The email size can't exceed 10 MB. This limit includes all attachments.

    • Download link– adds a link to the email body that users can access to download the snapshot report. When a user chooses the download link, they are prompted to sign in before the report starts to download. The link expires one year after the report is sent.

  17. (Optional, recommended) To send a sample of the report before you save changes, choose Send test report. This option displays beside the user name of the owner of the dashboard.

  18. Do one of the following:

    • (Recommended) Choose Save to confirm your entries.

    • To immediately send a report, choose Save and run now. The report is sent immediately, even if your schedule's start date is in the future.