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Animate Dimension in a Chart

dimitar_dekov — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:56:29 GMT

QlikView has a very nice feature that allows you to "animate" the first dimension of a chart. Although I have heard some analysts doubt the value of this feature besides making for a fancy presentation in front of your managers, I would argue there is a great value in helping people understand dynamic processes. Think of representing the evolution of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI or more recently - how countries deal with COVID-19.

Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XLXg4fYsc

Unfortunately, our favorite Analytics tool is currently not capable of creating the sort of visualization showed in the view above.

I would like to request that this feature (available in QV) is also added to Qlik Sense.

Re: Animate Dimension in a Chart

inspari_dfg — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 07:43:56 GMT

Well - this is actually already a feature that is available in Qlik Sense.

Just use the GeoAnalytics Animator object.

But I think that this should be a native object, or at least part of the Dashboard Bundle

Re: Animate Dimension in a Chart

dimitar_dekov — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 07:51:02 GMT

Thanks, @inspari_dfg, indeed I mean a native feature. And also - not a separate object, but a feature of the main native objects - the scatter plot, the bar chart, the line chart, the combo chart, etc. All charts can actually have a time dimension to animate. Same as in QlikView.

Re: Animate Dimension in a Chart - Status changed to: Delivered

Ian_Crosland — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:37:34 GMT

Animator now added to the dashboard bundle for September release

thanks

Ian

Re: Animate Dimension in a Chart

dimitar_dekov — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:10:35 GMT

Hi, @Ian_Crosland thanks a lot for following up on that. I really think that the Animator object is a move in the right direction, but I think all long-term Qlik folks here are thinking more about how QlikView was doing it - on the chart level and not on the sheet level. What the animator now does seem like a simple select action for the whole app or sheet - it cycles though the values in a field and all objects just follow the filter. As human attention cannot follow 2 or more charts at the same time, this means the animator should be meaningfully used only if you have one chart per sheet. This is quite limiting to the design choices.

Re: Animate Dimension in a Chart

Patric_Nordstrom — Tue, 18 May 2021 09:29:27 GMT

Adding and using an alternate state to the chart and the animator will limit the animation to just one chart

Thanks,

Patric