Hi All,
We are planning to create an Operational dashboard using Quick Sight. One of the requirements is that this dashboard should keep refreshing every few minutes to reflect the updated data.
While we have a good understanding of how to handle the dataset refreshes etc to make things work for us, we don’t see how the Quick Sight dashboard itself can refresh without a manually clicking the web page refresh button.
Additionally, clicking the refresh button kind of resets the page; goes blank for a while and then starts showing the visuals gradually which is not going to be pleasant as we expect this to be shown on a screen constantly for an operational team.
If anyone has done anything like this and can share any ideas I would really appreciate it.
Regards,
Giri
Hi @Giridhar.Prabhu,
As per my understanding, Quick Sight doesnt have a built-in auto-refresh for the dashboard view in the standard console experience, so I don’t believe there’s a way to make it reload on its own without manual interaction in that context. As for ideas/workarounds, I did find a couple of other community threads which might be helpful:
The first is Auto dashboard page refresh. A user found that if you’re on Capacity Pricing with a direct query data source, there’s an auto-refresh checkbox available when publishing the dashboard where you set the interval in minutes. I would like to note that this post is from 2021, so a few things may have changed since then. One thing that was mentioned in that thread is that the feature didn’t get enabled automatically even on Capacity Pricing, at the time, the user had to reach out to their Quick Sight account manager to have it turned on. That may no longer be the case, but worth keeping in mind if the checkbox doesn’t appear for you.
The second is Refreshing visuals without interaction. The suggestion there was to embed the dashboard and use the Quick Sight Embedding SDK to programmatically trigger a refresh on a timer. Something like this:
The trade-off is that I believe you would need to build a minimal web page to host the embedded dashboard rather than just opening the Quick Sight console URL directly.
Hope this helps!
Hi @WLS-Cesar
Thank you for your response. I will explore the embedding option.
Regards,
Giri