How to display a multi-column product image gallery grid in Amazon QuickSight (Quick Suite)?

[anubhav.s]

Is it possible to build a Pinterest-style
multi-column image gallery in QuickSight /
Quick Suite 2025?

Hi QuickSight Community,

We are building a product dashboard for an
enterprise fashion/retail platform
(WindowsWear) using Amazon QuickSight
Enterprise (Quick Suite).

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WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE
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We want to display products in a
Pinterest-style image grid like this:

┌──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┐
│[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │
│Name │Name │Name │Name │Name │
│$29 │$39 │$19 │$49 │$59 │
├──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┤
│[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │
│Name │Name │Name │Name │Name │
└──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘

Requirements:
• 4-6 product images per row
• Images sourced from S3 URLs
(productImage_s3 column)
• Product name, brand, price per card
• Search, filter, sort, pagination
• Mobile responsive

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OUR DATA SOURCE
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• Amazon OpenSearch (millions of records)
• Connected via SPICE dataset in QuickSight
• Key fields available:

• productImage_s3 (S3 image URLs)
• name, brand, sale_price
• retail_price, availability
• category_primary, ProductRank
• productUrl, sku_number

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WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY TRIED
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1. Custom Visual Plugins
   → “Custom visual plugins” option
   is NOT available in Manage QuickSight
   → Appears deprecated in Quick Suite
   (late 2025)

2. Pivot Table with Images
   → Configured Gallery_Row (ROWS) and
   Gallery_Col1/2/3 (VALUES)
   → Only shows COUNT of records
   → No “Display as image” option
   available in pivot table cells
   → String fields only offer
   COUNT/COUNT DISTINCT in VALUES

3. Custom Content Visual (URL Embed)
   → Accepts static URL only
   → Cannot bind to dataset columns
   → No field wells available
   → No search/filter/pagination

4. Highcharts Custom Visual
   → Designed for charts only
   → Cannot display images from
   dataset columns

5. Table Visual with Image Display
   → This WORKS for showing images
   → BUT produces single-column layout
   → Does NOT achieve gallery grid

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SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
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1. Is there ANY native QuickSight visual
   type that supports multi-column
   image grid layout in 2025/2026?

2. Is the Custom Visual Plugin feature
   permanently deprecated in Quick Suite,
   or is it available under a different
   menu location?

3. Can the Pivot Table be configured to
   display cell values as images?
   We see “Display as image” mentioned
   in older documentation but cannot
   find this option.

4. Has anyone successfully built an
   image gallery grid in QuickSight
   using any workaround?

5. Is the Custom Content Visual able to
   receive dataset parameters via URL
   query strings for dynamic filtering?

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CALCULATED FIELDS WE BUILT
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Gallery_Row:
floor((ProductRank - 1) / 3)

Gallery_Col1:
ifelse(
rank([{product_id} ASC], , PRE_AGG) % 3 = 1,
{productImage_s3},
NULL
)

Gallery_Col2:
ifelse(
rank([{product_id} ASC], , PRE_AGG) % 3 = 2,
{productImage_s3},
NULL
)

Gallery_Col3:
ifelse(
rank([{product_id} ASC], , PRE_AGG) % 3 = 0,
{productImage_s3},
NULL
)

These fields work correctly and produce
the right row/column structure, but the
pivot table only shows COUNT values
instead of rendering the image URLs.

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CURRENT WORKAROUND PLAN
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We are currently building a standalone
HTML gallery page hosted on S3 with an
API Gateway + Lambda connecting to
OpenSearch, then embedding the URL
in a Custom Content Visual.

However this has limitations:
• No integration with QuickSight filters
• Separate from main dashboard context
• Requires external infrastructure

Would love to know if there is a
native or semi-native solution we
have missed before going fully external.

Thank you in advance for any guidance!

Platform: Amazon QuickSight Enterprise
(Quick Suite)
Region: us-east-1
Dataset: OpenSearch via SPICE
Version: April 2026

[JacobR]

Hi @anubhav.s and welcome to the Quick Community!

So the current workaround that I can think of to achieve the desired design is to utilize a table visual. Restating your design below:

┌──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┐
│[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │
│Name │Name │Name │Name │Name │
│$29 │$39 │$19 │$49 │$59 │
├──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┤
│[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │[img] │
│Name │Name │Name │Name │Name │
└──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘

You can recreate the first line (img, name, and price) through a table visual and to get it in the right layout you will have to ‘swap rows and columns’

Now to get the second line (img and name), the only way I can think of for that one is to have that be a secondary table visual that you line up to make it look like one visual from a viewer’s perspective. As you have stated, you properly identified the current limitations and unfortunately, the workarounds require you to get a little crafty with it by doing something like multiple visuals.