topic Re: Moving the legend in a chart in QlikView

Moving the legend in a chart

diffeyj — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:22:28 GMT

Hi All,

I am trying to move the legend within a chart. So for line, bar and pie charts I want the legened to be at the bottom centred under the chart itself. I have taken a screen shot of a couple of charts, and then how I would like it to work.

Option 1.

my prefered option.

is this doable?

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

tresB — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:24:43 GMT

select the chart -> press ctrl+shift , you will get to select the legend box and be able to move and resize.

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

diffeyj — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:27:51 GMT

thanx tres. It is not exactly what I was after, as when I resize the chart the bar chart part overlaps some of the legend, but it gets me to option 1. I still ideally want the legend to underneath and accross like in the prefered option example. But thanx again.

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

nizamsha — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:04:51 GMT

click on the chart and then press ctr+shif and drag the legent \where ever u want top or bottom

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:18:43 GMT

Hi Dear,

Option 1 chart : u need to create a image and extract it through text object.In chart uncheck legend.

Hope it will help u..

regards-bika

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

rwunderlich — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:29:19 GMT

If you drag the legend all the way down to the left corner, it should resolve to a single row like in your preferred option. If you've already made some changes, undo them in the chart General tab by pressing the "Reset User Sizing" and "Reset User Docking" buttons.

-Rob

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

diffeyj — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:44:41 GMT

Hi Rob,

I have tried to do that, I get select the legend, I move it to the bottom and it looks like it will work as it puts the box around the bottom section. I release the mouse and the legend just disapears

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

rwunderlich — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:35:27 GMT

Your picture kind of looks correct. You want to drag to the lower left corner until the frame turns horizontal. See attached. Any chance you can post your qvw? Scramble and reduce the fields if you need to.

-Rob

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

diffeyj — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:37:39 GMT

hmmm... I opened your file and couldn't see the legend...

happy to post my qlikview file, it is a sample play file anyways.

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

rwunderlich — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:45:44 GMT

The reposition worked for me on your test file. What version of QV are you using? Perhaps a bug? I'm using the latest, 11.20.11922.

-Rob

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

diffeyj — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:19:11 GMT

I am using the same version

weird... I can't work out what I am doing wrong

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

diffeyj — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:39:26 GMT

ok, I think I found the issue. Not sure why, as the screen shot above shows I am using QlikView 11. But Qlikview 9 was not uninstalled. I uninstalled QlikView 9, and my QlikView 11 (which I was quite clearly opening) now showed the legend at the bottom. Quite strange, but for those that don't uninstall a previous version of QlikView, you can get issues apparently...

Re: Moving the legend in a chart

alexbjorlig — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:46:32 GMT

Strange? I have the same challenge as you described, but the Ctrl+Shift option just doesn't work