Only the table header is printed

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Issue Summary:
In Amazon Quick Sight, when using the “Print” option from the Export icon while scrolling within a table, the printed output only shows the visible header and not the full list of rows, especially the ones that are off-screen due to scrolling.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Create a table in Quick Sight with enough rows to activate a vertical scrollbar.
  2. Scroll down to view the rows at the bottom.
  3. Click the Export icon → choose Print.
  4. Observe that only the table header (and sometimes the top few visible rows) are printed — not the full dataset.

Expected Result:
All rows, including the ones visible after scrolling, should be included in the printed output.

Actual Result:
Only header and some visible portion are printed; scrolled content is missing.

Question:
Is this a limitation/specification of Quick Sight, or is it a bug? Are there workarounds or official guidance to export/print the entire table content regardless of scroll?

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Hello Haiton,

First of all, Welcome to the Quick Sight Community. Regarding the issue reported, I would say the behavior is the expected functionality of Quick Sight’s export and print features. When exporting a dashboard as a PDF, only the snapshot/view of the dashboard is captured, not the entire content of scrollable tables.

Please refer here old post -

For tables and pivot tables with multiple columns/rows requiring scrolling to view the full data, Quick Sight does not yet support exporting the entire table into a PDF.

The exports only include data that currently displays in the item that you choose.
See -Exporting and printing interactive Amazon QuickSight dashboard reports - Amazon QuickSight

For your use case, there are two recommended workarounds:

  1. Use Pixel Perfect paginated reporting, which generates highly formattable multi-page reports that can include complete data. Pixel perfect reports are designed to be viewed from a specific point in time and can be printed or downloaded as a PDF or CSV.
  2. Export the data to CSV or Excel format instead of PDF. For tables and pivot tables, you can export data to a comma-separated value (CSV) file or Microsoft Excel file, and you can choose to export only visible fields or all fields.

See - Exporting and printing interactive Amazon QuickSight dashboard reports - Amazon QuickSight

To export all fields, choose the menu at the upper-right of the visual, select either Export to CSV or Export to Excel, and then choose “Export all fields to CSV” or “Export all fields to Excel”.

Note that when exporting to Excel, there is a limit of approximately 40,000 rows.

See - Issue with data export from quicksight

If you need more data, exporting to CSV is recommended as it may support up to around 1 million rows.

Hope this gives some idea and help.

Cheers,
Deep

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Sorry for the unclear question earlier. I understand that only data showing on screen will be printed, but my issue is different:

Environment:

  • Windows 11 with display scaling set to 100%
  • Browser zoom level set to less than 100%
  • The table has a header with two rows, and many data rows (appears a scrollbar).

Problem:

When I scroll down (to the middle or bottom of the table) and then click the Print icon:

  • The printed PDF output does not match the visible screen content.
  • In some cases, rows are shifted upward in the printed output.
  • The second row of the table header (my table has a two-row header) is missing in the PDF.
  • Sometimes, no data rows are displayed at all in the printed result.
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Refer to: The printed PDF output does not match the visible screen content - #2 by duncan