[Feature Request] Find fields used in analysis

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Hi @Brett , @DylanM , @Xclipse

I have found myself in this situation on quite a few occasions when dealing with dataset changes.

I look over some legacy datasets and our SPICE dataset size increased over time and as I review these datasets I see opportunity to get rid of fields that I think are probably not in use. But the research of whether the field is in use in a visual, calculated field, filter, parameter control is a labourious manual exercise.

I looked around in the community and see that users have raised this a few times and the same has problably been raised as a feature request. I am adding another request from my side to have this ability as a standard feature of the product.

If there are ways I can do it through any other means please suggest. Describe Analysis CLI command is helpful but is still too much work to get to the information.

Regards,
Giri

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The metadata is available and you have the flexibility to build your solution based on your requirements. Here is a blog regarding the same : Enhance data governance through column-level lineage in Amazon QuickSight | AWS Business Intelligence Blog

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Hi @Koushik_Muthanna

I reviewed the blog.

My personal opinion is that is a solution that involves too many additional technologies to get some basic details from QuickSight.

I have to invest time to learn some of this stuff to understand how things work. It would also mean I have to incur cost on Glue, S3 etc.

I would still expect it could be a simpler out of the box feature.

Regards,
Giri

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Thanks for the feedback. I will mark this as a feature request :slight_smile: