topic Tip: Expression legend lines missing in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Tip-Expression-legend-lines-missing/m-p/844331#M532281 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This was going to be a question, but I solved it, so here's the answer too.</P><P></P><P>I have a line chart with two dimensions and three expressions, two of which are disabled until the first is down to one value.</P><P></P><P>I had Expressions as Legend turned on for all three expressions, but in the legend, while there were three labels present, only one of them had a line next to it - The first two were ambiguous because they didn't have a colored line next to them at all, so you couldn't tell them apart.</P><P></P><P>It turns out that it's because I had a Background Color expression on each of them that I'd changed my mind about, and rather than deleting it, I commented it out. For some reason, QlikView interprets a Background Color expression that's not blank but returns no value as white. When I deleted everything from the Background Color expression, the legend lines returned.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps someone.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:39:41 GMT Anonymous 2015-04-28T19:39:41Z Tip: Expression legend lines missing https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Tip-Expression-legend-lines-missing/m-p/844331#M532281 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This was going to be a question, but I solved it, so here's the answer too.</P><P></P><P>I have a line chart with two dimensions and three expressions, two of which are disabled until the first is down to one value.</P><P></P><P>I had Expressions as Legend turned on for all three expressions, but in the legend, while there were three labels present, only one of them had a line next to it - The first two were ambiguous because they didn't have a colored line next to them at all, so you couldn't tell them apart.</P><P></P><P>It turns out that it's because I had a Background Color expression on each of them that I'd changed my mind about, and rather than deleting it, I commented it out. For some reason, QlikView interprets a Background Color expression that's not blank but returns no value as white. When I deleted everything from the Background Color expression, the legend lines returned.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps someone.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:39:41 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Tip-Expression-legend-lines-missing/m-p/844331#M532281 Anonymous 2015-04-28T19:39:41Z