Simplify dashboard drill-down with the Amazon Quick Sight hierarchy filter
Amazon Quick Sight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) capability for building and publishing interactive dashboards. The new hierarchy filter gives dashboard authors rich, multi-level filtering in a single compact control, reducing clutter and guiding readers to the data they need in fewer steps.
Amazon Quick Sight is a cloud-based business intelligence tool that enables users to create and share interactive dashboards. When building a dashboard, users can apply filters to narrow down the data for analysis. However, providing too many filter options can clutter the interface and require multiple steps to apply filters, negatively impacting the user experience. To address this issue, Amazon Quick Sight now offers a hierarchy filter, which allows users to apply multi-level filters in a single compact control.
The hierarchy filter offers several benefits, such as reducing visual clutter, enabling fewer steps and guided exploration, mix-and-match selection options, scaling without overwhelming the user, and preventing reader confusion. It supports deep hierarchies (up to five levels) and handles the entire drill path within one compact control.
To use the hierarchy filter, you need author access to create and manage analyses and dashboards. Start by adding a filter and selecting the field to filter on, such as Region. Open the Edit filter pane, choose Hierarchy filter under Filter type, and then add the related fields in order from broadest to most detailed (e.g., Region, Country, City). After setting the filter condition to Include and scope to Cross-sheet (All sheets and visuals), add the control to the sheet and publish the analysis as a dashboard.
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