topic Re: Help Text available in bar chart without caption in QlikView

Help Text available in bar chart without caption

helen_pip — Fri, 05 May 2017 15:21:36 GMT

Dear Qlikview user

I would like to know if there is a simple way to show the Help Text hover over for a bar chart without having the caption turned on, nor creating extra objects?

Kind Regards

Helen

Re: Help Text available in bar chart without caption

Anil_Babu_Samineni — Fri, 05 May 2017 15:52:29 GMT

I don't think whether we can achieve with out Help Search in Caption Tab and then Objects. Could be possible only these options.

Re: Help Text available in bar chart without caption

RonaldDoes — Fri, 05 May 2017 19:36:25 GMT

Hi Helen,

To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to show the help text of a bar chart without displaying it's caption. However, strictly spoken, there is a solution to your question.

SPOILER ALERT: horrible idea ahead

There is this:

Add an expression to your bar chart with your help text in the definition.
For "Display options", choose "Text as Pop-up"

If users hover over one of the bars (so not the object) it will show the help text, along with any other pop-up information.

I think it looks terrible, and would not gererally recommend it, however there might be circumstances in which it can be of help.

Please find the qvd i used attached.

With kind regards,

Ronald

Re: Help Text available in bar chart without caption

helen_pip — Sun, 07 May 2017 19:44:14 GMT

Hello Ronald

Thank you for your suggestion as in this particular instance this technique could work for me as I always just displaying one single bar, therefore it actually suits my bar chart

Thank you for the suggestion

Re: Help Text available in bar chart without caption

RonaldDoes — Mon, 08 May 2017 06:36:39 GMT

I guess that would be an appropriate use case, indeed.