As most of us know, QlikView does not have native support for Bullet Graphs (as described in Stephen Few's books and website, design document available here ). Workarounds exist for creating a single instance of bullet graphs (described here ), but this is bulky and does not always provide a solution. Unfortunately, it does not appear QlikView plans to add bullet graph functionality (it's not on the QV10 new function list), despite the fact that most of the infrastructure is there (a bullet graph is very similar to the existing gauges, but with an extra fill line).
I wanted to start a discussion with a few related questions:
1) Other than myself, are there (m)any people out there who would like to see bullet graphs implemented in QV?
2) Does anyone have working examples of dashboards using bullet graphs in conjunction with intra-chart gauges? In particular, does anyone have examples overlaying bullet charts on intra-chart gauges with rows wrapped to more than one line?
3) Could someone from QV's R&D chime in with an explanation why this functionality isn't being added, and perhaps an idea of whether we might see it in a future release?
Are you running QlikView behind a firewall? You may have to open you firewall for HTTP communications.
In the Display Options of the expression tab uncheck Hide Text When Image Is Missing. Do you now have a URL where you should have an image? If you copy this URL to Internet Explorer does it work?
I have just been playing around with Trellis - bullet charts. It seems to work quite well, see the image in attached word doco. I dont have time to put up the QV file sorry due to data confidentialty.
It seems Qlikview has taken some steps towards Bullet Chart. I went through the Qlikview 11 demo samples and found one "Extension" example that has Bullet Chart as one of the extension.
