Today, we’re excited to announce two new capabilities that make Quick Sight dashboards even more expressive and business-aligned: sparklines and custom sort for controls.

Tables are the most widely used visual type in Quick Sight, and with these additions, they become part of a significantly more powerful authoring experience. Sparklines embed compact, inline trend charts directly inside table cells. Instead of navigating to a separate line chart to determine whether a metric is improving or declining, readers can spot the pattern right where the data lives, in the table itself. Custom Sort for controls gives authors the ability to define a precise, business-driven order for drop-downs, and list controls. A status drop-down can now read Escalated, In Progress, Resolved, and a segment list can present Enterprise, Mid-Market, SMB, sequences that reflect how your organization prioritizes work, not how a database returns results.

In this post, we walk through both features, what they are, when to use them, and how to configure them, with real-world scenarios that bring them together in a practical, decision-ready dashboard.

Sparklines are compact inline line charts that are embedded directly within table cells. Rather than requiring a separate visual to show trend data, sparklines allow readers to see and compare trends immediately without leaving the context of the surrounding data. They present the general shape of a trend without axes or coordinates, typically over time, in a simple and highly condensed way.

Tip: Sparklines appear in the Visuals pane in the order they are created. To edit a sparkline later, open the Visuals drop-down in the Format visual pane and choose the edit icon next to the sparkline you want to modify. To remove a sparkline, open its edit pane and choose Delete.