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Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Patric_Nordstrom — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:32:51 GMT

More charts and tips for app development in Qlik Sense. It's a mix of recipes for new charts and tips for app development. Content as follows, full descriptions and demos in the app below.

Charts

Venn diagram for two sets
Step chart
Gantt revisited with the new combo chart
Cross chart
Stacked triangular venn chart
Grid chart with pies
Icicle chart
Lollipop chart
Deviation Icicle Chart
Donut with center text
Acitivity gauge revisited
Stacked radial plot
Timeline chart
Harvey Balls
Lexis chart
Table bar chart

Tips

Reference line for top 5 and 50%
Significant digits
Custom labels on stacked bar chart
Custom labels on stacked bar chart 2
KPI Image Background
Adding help
Force labels in stacked bar chart
Button text in the right size
KPI font in the right size
Hide table header
Filter data in a chart
1000 column table
Embed labels
Pajama striping with CSS
Background text in charts
Labels on calculated dimensions in drill down
Conditional background color
Legend with word wrap
Highlighting selected value
Radar chart properties
Custom x-axis

As always many of the tips are created by others than me, I tried to credit the original author at all places when possible, the app below can be viewed as my current top picks.

If you liked it, here's more in the same style:

24 days of visualization Season III, II, I
Top 10 Tips Part X, IX, VIII, VII, VI, V, IV, III, II , I
Let's make new charts with Qlik Sense
FT Visual Vocabulary Qlik Sense version
Similar but for Qlik GeoAnalytics : Part III, II, I

Thanks,
Patric

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

JordyWegman — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 12:30:23 GMT

Thanks for the inspiration! 👌

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:50:55 GMT

Hi @Patric_Nordstrom

Does it work in Qlik Cloud?

I used to have this working via MultiKPI with css with various different solutions like:

hiding breadcrumbs in pivot table
changing table header colours etc
hiding showing nav-bar etc

Now in your app is see you also have multi KPI with CSS for KPI Image background on the sheet, but when loaded to Qlik Cloud it does not show background.

I have figured that it has something to do with URLs in Qlik SaaS and in fact when I uploaded image to Media Library and referenced it from there it worked: https://mycloudaddress/api/v1/apps/53dbcb2f-9c9d-445b-b96c-0cca721c72b0/media/files/KPI.png

so question I have - is there anything in Qlik SaaS we can do (setting, adding some parameters, whitelist of urls.. etc) to avoid having such cumbersome solution where images have to be loaded first to media library before they can be referenced. I guess the same issue appears if we try to reference images in tables.

thanks

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Patric_Nordstrom — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:29:32 GMT

Yes, all of the above works in Qlik Cloud.

In Qlik Cloud all URLs that contain resource requests to external resources must have its origins allowlisted in the Content Security Policy, else the resource will not be loaded.

See https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Admin/mc-administer-content-security-policy.htm

Thanks for bringing it up I will add a comment on the sheet.

Thanks,

Patric

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

martingries — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:09:54 GMT

Hi Patric,

thanks for sharing. Is this app available somewhere on Qlik.com?

I was not able to find your app on https://demos.qlik.com/qliksense/

Martin

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Patric_Nordstrom — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:31:16 GMT

@martingries no, it's only available here.

Thanks,

Patric

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

KWF_JKassing — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:43:19 GMT

Thank you so much Patric. Love your work!

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

marcel_olmo — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:58:58 GMT

Hi @Patric_Nordstrom thanks for the great work you've shared with us.

I'm seeing the gantt chart and I'd like to know if the dependency line could go from the last part of the previous bar to the first part of the dependent bar.

Right now the dependency is from the last part of the previous bar to the last part of the dependent bar.

Many thanks in advance, Marcel.

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

loki20beta — Fri, 06 May 2022 09:13:36 GMT

@Patric_Nordstrom I wonder where the date for these sample apps comes from? How is it licensed? Can I use it to create sample for myself/my company?

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Vadimb — Tue, 24 May 2022 07:07:45 GMT

Thanks, it's so helpful!

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Joe-P — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:40:27 GMT

Hi @Patric_Nordstrom This is wonderful. However, the "Donut with center text" is appearing as blank on both Qlik Sense desktop and Qlik Sense cloud. If I replace the embedded expressions with a number, then the chart will display correctly. This worked last week.....I did update to the latest version of Qlik Sense desktop recently, but strangely the Cloud version hasn't been updated, and I'm experiencing the same issue on both. Could you confirm whether you (or anyone else in this community) can see the same issue? Thanks

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Patric_Nordstrom — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:12:27 GMT

@Joe-P please try now, it was temporary bug that have been fixed. Thanks, Patric

Re: Top 10 Viz tips - part VI

Joe-P — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:49:31 GMT

Excellent news @Patric_Nordstrom . Just checked and I can confirm that it's working 🙂 Thank you .