Overwrite current dashboard URL with new analysis

Question & Answer
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I would like to publish a new dashboard to an existing URL that is created from a new analysis

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Hi @afryc

Every dashboard has a unique ID which is part of the dashboard URL. From the original source analysis, you can publish a new version of the dashboard, but you cannot publish a new version of the dashboard from a different analysis using the console.

However, you can use UpdateDashboard API/CLI to update a new dashboard version from a different/new analysis.
You can only update a dashboard from a template, so you use a SourceTemplate entity. If you need to update a dashboard from an analysis, first convert the analysis to a template by using the [CreateTemplate](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/APIReference/API_CreateTemplate.html) API operation.

  1. Note the dashboard ID (alphanumeric values following dashboards/. For example, ‘ssddffr-b531-eeee-ad34-eeeee’ is the dashboard ID of dashboard ‘https://us-east-1.quicksight.aws.amazon.com/sn/dashboards/ssddffr-b531-eeee-ad34-eeeee’).

  2. Create a template of the new analysis.

  3. Use UpdateDashboard API/CLI with source-entity as the template.

  4. Updating a Dashboard creates a new dashboard version but does not immediately publish the new version. You can update the published version of a dashboard by using the [UpdateDashboardPublishedVersion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/APIReference/API_UpdateDashboardPublishedVersion.html) API operation.

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Hi @rajjaya

Thanks for the response!

I attended office hours today and was told that this solution will not work since the dashboard and analysis are under the Amazon BI AWS account. Are there any other solutions?

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Hi @afryc

I have sent you a message.