line chart customization

[Anonymous]

Hi,

My task is two show 2 brands simultaneously on a line chart.

Brand1 has Budget Value in every month. Brand2 has Budget Value only in Jan, Feb, Apr, Sep, Oct.

If Brand 2 has Budget in Feb and Apr, but doesn't have Budget in Mar, then QlikView connects the point 'Feb' with the oint 'Apr'. QlikView doesn't show a gap, though there is a gap.

Is it possible to customize a line chart so that gaps would be displayed?

Brand1	Jan	10
Brand1	Feb	20
Brand1	Mar	17
Brand1	Apr	18
Brand1	May	12
Brand1	Jun	8
Brand1	Jul	15
Brand1	Aug	12
Brand1	Sep	10
Brand1	Oct	15
Brand1	Nov	5
Brand1	Dec	7
Brand2	Jan	12
Brand2	Feb	15
Brand2	Apr	8
Brand2	Sep	12
Brand2	Oct	10

Thank you in advance,

See the file attached.

Larisa

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

That should be possible. See this discussion for an example: Help! How to break off the line in a chart?

[swuehl · Accepted solution]

I think your setting might be a bit more complicated than the one Gysbert handled in his referenced thread.

You are using 2 dimensions and your data is missing records for some months.

Attached a QVW with your data and some proposals.

1) What about just enabling symbols, so one can clearly see where data points exist and where there is no data available

(chart on first row)

2) With creating a background color attribute expression, you can try hiding the line

Since you are using two dimensions, I needed an advanced aggregation here (thankfully, your Month is already correctly sorted by load order):

=aggr(if(Month(Date#(Month,'MMM')) -Month(below(Date#(Month,'MMM'))) <=-2,argb(100,0,0,255)),Brands,Month)

[The part Month(Date#(Month,'MMM')) is only needed, because your Month is pure text. Using a QV date function to create a Month field with a dual value would simplify above to

=aggr(if(Month - below(Month) <=-2, argb(100,0,0,255)),Brands,Month)

]

Basically I am testing if the dimensional gap between two sampling points is greater than 1 (month).

For demonstration, I used a visible color (2nd line, left chart)

Now you can use a white color with transparency, but unfortunately, this also hides single sampling points

(2nd line, middle chart, you can't see April for Brand2 anymore)

Even enabling the symbols doesn't help (same color) -> 2nd line, right chart

3) Instead of using color, you can manipulate the line style, I tried with a slimmer and dotted line (chart on 3rd line)

4) Finally (and as far as I've understood closest to your request), you can overlay a chart with lines with a chart with symbols

(The color of lines is manipulated as in 2nd line, in the top chart with symbols, no color expression is used.

[Anonymous]

Hi, Swuehl,

I appreciate your attenion to details. Thank you!

Actually Month field has a Month format in my big model.

Could you say how I can simplify this formula then?

aggr(if(Month(Date#(Month,'MMM')) -Month(below(Date#(Month,'MMM'))) <=-2,argb(0,255,255,255)),Brands,Month)

[swuehl]

[The part Month(Date#(Month,'MMM')) is only needed, because your Month is pure text. Using a QV date function to create a Month field with a dual value would simplify above to

=aggr(if(Month - below(Month) <=-2, argb(100,0,0,255)),Brands,Month)

]

You need to assure that load order of Month field is chronologic.