QuickSight New Experience: Dataset Limitations & Data Type Issues

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Hi Everyone,

While working with Amazon QuickSight’s new authoring experience, I have noticed a few limitations compared to the legacy UI:

  • Dataset parameters are not available

  • Incremental refresh is missing

  • Column hierarchies cannot be created

  • Data type conversion from string to date does not work as expected

    • Data type Conversion is possible only via calculated fields, which is a limitation

All of these features continue to work in the legacy experience, but are absent or limited in the new UI.

Looking for advice from the community:

  • Are these known gaps or planned for future releases?

  • Are there recommended workarounds or best practices in the new experience ?

  • For production dashboards, is it better to continue using the legacy experience until feature parity is achieved?

Appreciate any insights or shared experiences. Thanks!

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Hi @Hari_Rajan

Welcome to the Quick community!

You may find it useful to review the related Quick community post, the issue regarding incremental refresh being unavailable in the new experience has already been discussed.

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Hi @Hari_Rajan,

Hope everything is well! Just checking back in since we haven’t heard from you in a bit. Were you able to see Xclipse’s reply and/or find a solution yourself in the meantime? If you still have any additional questions related to your initial post, please feel free to share them. Otherwise, any update you’re able to provide within the next 3 business days would be helpful for the community.

Thanks!

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Hi @Hari_Rajan,

Since we haven’t received any further updates from you, I’ll treat this inquiry as complete for now. If you have any additional questions, feel free to create a new post in the community and link this discussion for context.

Thanks!