Dashboard authoring console overview
The Dashboard Authoring Console is an embedded feature in your Eightfold platform that allows you to create new analyses or modify existing analyses using QuickSight. These datasets can be published as a dashboard that is viewable from your Eightfold platform.

You can navigate through the documentation to read about following topics:
- Getting started with the dashboard authoring console: This article provides a starting point for using the dashboard authoring console in QuickSight. It offers an overview of what to expect, describes use cases, and recommends resources for authoring effective analyses.
- Provisioning and enabling dashboards: This article explains how to provision and enable the dashboard authoring console and provides step-by-step instructions for creating a custom dashboard for a customer.
- Creating your own views in dashboard authoring console: The article provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a your own views in the dashboard authoring console using custom SQL. It includes screenshots to guide users in navigating the process, from creating the dataset to using it in an analysis.
- Creating and adding custom fields to standard dashboards: This page provides step-by-step instructions on how to create and add custom fields to standard dashboards.
- Adding a date range in a QuickSight Analysis: This page explains how to add a date range to a QuickSight analysis.
- Combining existing datasets without SQL: This page provides step-by-step instructions for combining existing datasets without SQL.
- QuickSight datasets for customers: This document provides an overview of customer datasets on QuickSight that can be accessed using the Dashboard Authoring Console.
- Filters across tabs: This page explains how to add Filters across tabs.
- Overview of the Data Flow into the Dashboards: This document provides an overview of Data Flow into the Dashboards.
For a video series on this information, view Dashboard authoring console video tutorial.