topic Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension in QlikView

Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

dillerja — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:22:09 GMT

I have created a simple self-contained test project to demonstrate this issue.

I have a stacked bar chart with 3 dimensions: Customer, Store, and Product. The following picture shows the chart appearing correctly with a legend shown on Product with a different bar segment color for each product shown on the chart.

However, when I select the customer 'Jane Doe' there is only one Product value to display. When I do this the Product Legend is empty and I can't tell which product I am looking at because I don't know which product the bar represents. The below picture shows this, with my annotations added in red to highlight the issue.

What makes this even more strange is if I click on the bar chart's caption to make the chart 'active' then the Legend populates showing that blue represents the product 'Gasoline'. However, if I then save the QVW file, the legend again goes blank.

Any ideas on what causes this, and know of any workarounds?

Message was edited by: Jack Diller (attached sample app: MissingLegend.qvw)

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

sunny_talwar — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:37:16 GMT

Do you have a sample you can share which shows the following behavior?

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

dillerja — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:44:20 GMT

Sunny,

I have a sample app, but I don't see how to attach it to the discussion. I see how to attach an image, but not a QVW file. Can you point me in the right direction to do that?

Thanks,
Jack

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

dillerja — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:51:57 GMT

Nevermind, I was able to attach the sample app to the original post. I had to use a different browser.

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

sunny_talwar — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:24:08 GMT

Try now

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 04:33:30 GMT

Jack,

The legends are used only if there are multiple dimensions, so that its easy to identify which element responds to which dimension.

When there will be just one dimension in the chart, there will be no legend.

Its a basic Qv functionality.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Swapneel

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:14:23 GMT

Basically you just need to make the chart bigger by a bit i guess, cause i tried clicking on it and your legend is actually being hidden below, you just have to align the legend maybe to the right or left side.

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:25:51 GMT

Hi Jack,

Simply drag and set your legends using Shift + Ctrl

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

PradeepReddy — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:36:10 GMT

just adjust the legends position using Shift + Ctrl.. it will show you what u are expecting...

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

HirisH_V7 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:10:38 GMT

Hi ,

By Using Control+Shift Move your Legend to Right side of the chart
Then Do your selections You can Have a View of legends OR If you want it at bottom only means you should provide some more space for legend to be displayed down there by dragging .

PFA,

HTH,

Hirish

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

Peter_Cammaert — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:41:20 GMT

Apparently, if you just press Ctrl-Shift once with your Chart (and 'Jane Doe') selected, your legend becomes visible again. No need to scale anything.

Miond you: be careful with the Ctrl-Shift way of reordering chart parts. It will offer nice effects, but also a good fight to get it to work like you want (more often than once)

Re: Legend does not display when only one value in dimension

dillerja — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:14:48 GMT

Thanks Sunny. I see that you expanded the legend vertically and that seems to have fixed it. This still seems like a QlikView bug to me, but what you did is a good solution for what I need.