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Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

Digvijay_Singh — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:06:26 GMT

The most frequently used Qlik charts like Bar/Line hides the full dimension label via ellipses (..., yes the undesired three dots at the end of the trimmed dimension label). We need the wrapped dimension label, at least have two lines to fit the dimension value or there could be a chart property that allows to choose the number of characters we would like to have for dimension values.

There are some extensions which provide this feature so it would be great if Qlik can provide this feature natively.

Text wrapping is very useful for nprinting reports where users cannot hover over and see remaining text.

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

SimonBall — Tue, 11 May 2021 08:56:22 GMT

as a parameterised option rather than a blanket change?

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

Digvijay_Singh — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:03:37 GMT

Yes

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

Digvijay_Singh — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:13:09 GMT

We are using extension to achieve this below behavior but we are missing many properties of native charts in the extension -

Native chart start showing ellipses(...) for long labels even the overall chart space is sufficient to wrap and show full label.

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels - Status changed to: Open - Collecting Feedback

Patric_Nordstrom — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:25:16 GMT

Thank you all for your feedback on ways to improve our product. While this is something we understand would be useful, it's not on the short-term roadmap. Please continue to show your support for this idea by commenting and liking.

Thanks,
Patric

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

juanjaramillo1 — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:41:58 GMT

I'm also needing this feature asap please.

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

Digvijay_Singh — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:10:31 GMT

@juanjaramillo1 Doesn't look like a priority for Qlik, its more frustrating that Bars are unevenly allotted more real estate than the dimension labels.

Also not many people have liked this idea so its not making needed impact. We use nprinting a lot and text wrapping can male a huge difference in our area of work.

Hope you already liked this idea 😊

Digvijay,

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

mohsin_choudhary — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:21:32 GMT

Hi Qlik,

I have also raised same idea where customer has highlighted this limiation https://community.qlik.com/t5/Suggest-an-Idea/Show-complete-labels-on-x-axis/idc-p/1924729#M9359. Request qlik to look into this and change the feature so that clients can benefit.

Thanks

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

psnares — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 22:48:28 GMT

Working in a government setting that has very long text values (program names that are displayed frequently) the inability to wrap text for dimension labels is the most common complaint from our senior executive. It sours their experience sufficiently for them to ask whether we should be looking at other tools in the market.

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

francesco_menin — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:47:49 GMT

there's also to consider the fact that labels do overlap also inside the charts!!!

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

Digvijay_Singh — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:14:39 GMT

Hi @Patric_Nordstrom

Hope you are doing great.

Is there any plan for multi line dimension values or organizing bar space better so that label gets more visual space?

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

gramqlik — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:33:22 GMT

Agreed.

We need more options for data series & point labels in general. There are probably loads of good ideas, but here's a few off the top of my head:

• Truncation of Data series labels to be optional.

• Option to apply text wrapping to Data series labels.

• Vertical data series labels.

• Option to display labels inside or outside bars on a bar chart and to orient horizontally or vertically.

• Option to display labels above or below points on a line chart.

• Expressions on Measure labels should work as on Dimension labels, e.g. ='Text: ' & [field] doesn't currently work, but would be very handy (e.g. on pie charts).

• Option to show or hide data point labels when the value is small (rather than them just not being displayed at all). e.g. on smaller pie chart slices. Also, we shouldn't lose some data point labels when rotating a pie chart.

* The ability to customise Segment and Total value labels in a stacked bar chart - e.g. If segments show a averages, we should have the option for the total label to also be an average. At present, it is the sum of the segment values only.

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

neerajthakur — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 06:19:17 GMT

@Digvijay_Singh Which extension are you using for text wrapping here in example.

Re: Text wrapping is needed in Bar/Line chart dimension labels

Digvijay_Singh — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:41:52 GMT

We took the base code from here -

https://developer.qlik.com/garden/57161998713777448667b063

The critical piece is available in the lib/functions.js. The wrap function over there does the real work. Thanks to the owner JVS, its being quite helpful in absence of native feature for text wrapping. In its current form, its very good for nprinting usage. All Credit goes to Yianni Ververis, the owner of this code. 🙂

Thanks,

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