How to tell if dashboard has scheduled snapshot job via api?

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Hello,
For dashboard, if the scheduled snapshot job was manually via UI, is there an API available to tell if a dashboard has scheduled snapshot job? or the snapshot job id?

Thanks

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Hi @marz_nana,
You could try running one of these API’s:

Let me know if one of these helps with your case or if you have any additional questions

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Hi Brett.
This 2 apis require job id as an input parameter, which you can only get if you create the snapshot via api.
Most of our dashboard schedules are created via UI, not sure how to obtain a job id value in this case.

Thanks

Helen

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Hi @marz_nana,
I understand, sorry about the confusion. I’m not sure if you are able to obtain a snapshot job id for something scheduled in the UI.
You could test out the describe-dashboard or describe-dashboard-definition to see if one of those will provide you with a snapshot id.

A better question might be what exactly are you trying to complete? If you scheduled from the UI, you can view your recent snapshots and your current schedules from the dashboard view:
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Thanks Brett, want to be able to tell which Dashboard got a snapshot scheduled, i.e. out of 200 dashboard, will be hard to go through each dashboard to find out if the dashboard has snapshot scheduled.

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Hi @marz_nana,
Understood; yes I agree this would be a very useful tool to have added to QuickSight, unfortunately I don’t believe there is an API call that can gather this information currently.
I’ll mark this as a feature request to promote visibility to the support team.

Thank you