How do I save an analysis as a dashboard using API?

Question & Answer
1

Is this possible? I know I can use an analysis template to create a dashboard, but if I do this, I’m not sure if I can ‘Overwrite existing dashboard’ from the UI if I need to make additional edits from there.

2

You should be able to with the update-dashboard command.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/quicksight/update-dashboard.html

However, something to note is that the JSON schema for Analysis and Dashboards are different.

If you generate skeletons for create-dashboard and create-analysis you can see it.

Here is the start of an analysis json.

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Here is the start of a dashboard json

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You would need to do some transformations but it should work the same once you get to the Definition.

Here is the dashboard definition

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This is the analysis definition
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3

Here is a screen grab from the new apis blog.

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4

Thanks Max, but I think you misunderstood my question.

Here is my desired flow:

  1. Create Analysis with CLI
  2. Publish Analysis as a new Dashboard with CLI (so the dashboard uses the same structure and datasets as the analysis)
  3. Edit Analysis in Quicksight UI
  4. Publish the Analysis from step 1 as a dashboard in Quicksight UI and ‘Replace an existing dashboard’ of the dashboard created in step 2. (screenshot of this step attached.)
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    Let me know if this is doable.

Thanks!

5

Ahh, yes now I see.

No, I don’t think it will configure that “link” you are looking for if you do it with the API