Story is an exciting feature from QuickSight that can be used for effective presentations and snapshots of your analysis that you want to share with your team members or executive management. QuickSight allows you to take a snapshot of your chart and preserve all the formatting and filters to what is called a scene. A story is a set of scenes that can be played in a sequence. In this section, we will review how to create and manage stories.
Every analysis comes with a default story called Storyboard1. As you work with your analysis, you can capture a specific visual to the StoryBoard as a scene. Let's review the steps to create a story using the USA census analysis.
- From the QuickSight home page, select the USA Census analysis.
- Next, select the first chart that you want to add to the Story and click on Capture in the top-right corner.
- This will change the focus of the toolbar from Visualize to Story.
- Next, you can rename the scene from Scene 1 to Bubble Chart.
- You can optionally rename the default Storyboard1 to a new name, for example USA Census Storyboard as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.38: Story creation
- Next, let's add two more scenes to this story with the heat map and pie chart by clicking the Capture option again.
- Now you have a Story with three scenes as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.39: Story creation additional chart
This completes the section for the creation of a new story. Next we will review how to play existing stories.
Let's review the steps to play an existing story:
- From the QuickSight home page, select the USA Census analysis.
- Next, click on the Story button from the toolbar on the left side.
- Next, hover over the first scene and the play icon will appear at the center; click on the play sign as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.40: Play a story
- This starts the story in play mode; you can use the NEXT and/or PREVIOUS button on the bottom to move forward or go back to the previous scene as shown in the next screenshot.
- Once you are done with the story presentation, click on the Stop button to exist the story view mode.
Figure 4.41: Controls for a story
Follow the steps to delete an existing story:
- From the QuickSight home page, select the USA Census analysis.
- Next, click on the Story button from the tool bar on the left side.
- Next, click on the dropdown next to the story name.
- Click on the Delete option in the drop-down menu to finally delete the story as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.42: Delete story
This completes the section on stories. Next we will look into the dashboard feature.