I have a QuickSight embedded dashboard implementation where users access dashboards through our application with reader role permissions. I want to understand the current capabilities and limitations for these embedded readers regarding email report scheduling.
Specific Questions:
Can a user with reader role in an embedded QuickSight experience schedule email reports for themselves?
What are the exact permissions and configuration requirements needed to enable this functionality?
Are there any recent changes in 2025 that have affected reader scheduling capabilities in embedded dashboards?
Current Setup:
Using embedded dashboards for registered users
Users have reader role permissions
Enterprise edition QuickSight account
Need readers to be able to schedule their own email reports
I’ve seen conflicting information about whether readers can create their own schedules or if they can only subscribe to author-created schedules. Looking for the most current and accurate information.
Any guidance on best practices or alternative approaches would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you for the quick response and the confirmation! I appreciate the welcome to the community.
We tested this functionality in our QA environment after reviewing the documentation you referenced, but we’re encountering a limitation. Instead of seeing the option to create new schedules, our embedded readers are only seeing the option to subscribe to existing reports (see attached screenshot).
Questions:
Permission Configuration: Is this behaviour due to specific permission settings that need to be configured? Are there particular IAM policies or QuickSight user permissions that control whether readers can create vs. only subscribe to schedules?
Embedding Configuration: Do we need to enable specific features in our GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser API call? We’re currently using embedded dashboards for registered users and enabled schedules as true.
User Type Requirements: Could this be related to how our embedded users are set up (IAM vs QuickSight identity)? We are using QuickSight identity.
We want to ensure our embedded readers have the full capability to create their own schedules as mentioned in the March 2025 update, rather than being limited to subscribing to author-created schedules.
Any guidance on the specific configuration steps needed would be greatly appreciated!
Setup Details:
QuickSight Enterprise Edition
Embedded dashboards using registered user authentication
Since its new and i have not tried myself below is my understanding.
Questions:
Permission Configuration: Is this behaviour due to specific permission settings that need to be configured? Are there particular IAM policies or QuickSight user permissions that control whether readers can create vs. only subscribe to schedules?
→ No - reader can only subscribe to dashboard but can create upto 5 schedules for pixel perfect reports
Embedding Configuration: Do we need to enable specific features in our GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser API call? We’re currently using embedded dashboards for registered users and enabled schedules as true.
→ No, it seems ok here
User Type Requirements: Could this be related to how our embedded users are set up (IAM vs QuickSight identity)? We are using QuickSight identity.
→ No, as long as its registered and known to QuickSight its ok.
If you have Pixel perfect enabled, please try out with pixel perfect report to see if readers are able to schedule.
Thank you for the clarification! Just to confirm my understanding:
For regular dashboard email reports (PDF snapshots): Readers can only subscribe to existing schedules created by authors, but cannot create their own schedules.
For pixel-perfect reports: Readers can create their own schedules (up to 5 per dashboard) and have full scheduling control.
So if we want to enable our embedded readers to create and manage their own email report schedules, we would need to implement pixel-perfect reports in our environment, correct?
