AmorphicBI

Amorphic BI provides deeper integration of Amorphic with AWS Quicksight

How to add a user to Amorphic BI?

User with Owner/Editor access on the Amorphic BI App can add a user to the BI App. The user needs to be an existing Amorphic user.

Follow below steps to add a new user to Amorphic BI application:

1. Select BI from the Apps by clicking the eye icon in options of Apps list.
2. Go to AUTHORIZED USERS tab and click on the Provide app access button.
3. Select an existing Amorphic User and click on Import button.

Note

• User can only be Registered if the user does not have more than 220 datasets and views.
• The user registration process is asynchronous and user would be notified via email and push notification on successful registration and user would be visible under Authorized Users section after successful registration.
• The user to be added needs to have access on the Amorphic BI App
• Users with owner/editor access on Amorphic BI App are registered as AUTHOR user in Quickight and users with read-only access are registered as READER users.
• For AUTHOR Users, an Athena data source is created as part of registration process which can be used to access the user's datasets.

Below gif shows how to register a user in Amorphic BI App

Open Quickight Console

Once the user is successfully registered to Amorphic BI, the user can click on the goto BI App button and the user will be redirected to his/her quicksight console.

Note

• The console session is valid for 12 Hours.
• The registered AUTHOR users can use the athena datasource created as part of user registration process to query and access their datasets.

Below gif shows how to open user's quicksight console

Sync Dashboards

Registered users can sync their Amorphic Quickight Dashboards and Dashboards that they have access to in Quicksight by clicking on the Sync Dashboards button.

Note

• To access Quicksight dashboards in Amorphic, the ADMIN needs to add the domain of Amorphic application in Quicksight.
• Dashboards syncing is asynchronous and user will be notified via email on process completion.

Update IAM Role

To update dataset access for registered user in Amorphic BI, User can click on the Update IAM Role button which will update the permissions on the custom IAM Role associated with registered user.

How to revoke a user's Amorphic BI access?

Owners of the Amorphic BI application have the option to revoke access for any given user from Amorphic BI. Follow the below steps to revoke a user access from Amorphic BI:

1. Select BI from the Apps by clicking the eye icon in options of Apps list.
2. Go to AUTHORIZED USERS tab and click on the Remove User button besides the user that needs to be removed.

note

the resources for which the user is the sole owner will be orphaned.

Note

• The user deletion process is asynchronous and user would be notified via email and push notification on successful deletion and user would be removed from Authorized Users section after successful deletion.
• The Athena data source created as part of user registration process will also be deleted.

Below gif shows how to revoke a Amorphic BI user's access.