topic Re: How do I center a horizontal legend? in QlikView

How do I center a horizontal legend?

scotthan — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:23:38 GMT

I have a bar chart and I have done ctrl+shift to drag the legend to the bottom, which flips it horizontal. However, it defaults to a left-aligned legend which looks weird on my wide chart. How do I center this horizontal legend when the only option I see in legend settings is vertical alignment?

Thanks!

Re: How do I center a horizontal legend?

andreypico — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:27:08 GMT

Hi. Try on this properties

Properties->Presentation->Setings ... (Legend)

Re: How do I center a horizontal legend?

scotthan — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:29:29 GMT

I looked at that, but it only has a vertical alignment and no horizontal alignment selector. When I switch to horizontal legend, I can't find a setting that lets me move the legend to the center of the chart horizontally.

Re: How do I center a horizontal legend?

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:29:52 GMT

Scotthan,

Select the chart and use CTRL+SHIFT key and move the Legend from left to center in the chart.

Rgds,

Nandha

Re: How do I center a horizontal legend?

jamesdmilne — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:14:23 GMT

I was searching for an answer to this same question. It's an old post but it has a lot of views, so I've decided to provide a solution that worked for my purposes.

If you are using multiple expressions in a line or combo chart where zero appears on the axis, you can insert an additional expression in the first position with a Definition of 0 (zero), and a label of ' ·' (some number of spaced followed at the end by a "Middle Dot"). You will have to play with the number of spaces.

This is definitely a work around waiting for a UI enhancement,

Regards,

James

Re: How do I center a horizontal legend?

jamesdmilne — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:40:36 GMT

... forgot to mention that you need to set the background color for the placeholder expression to White() or a color that matches your background. If you don't want the dot to appear in the legend try using a supported non-white space Unicode characters starting at U+2000.

James