topic Staggering labels on chart in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Staggering-labels-on-chart/m-p/440313#M559065 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I have a line chart that shows an expression over weekly values.&nbsp; There are many values for the "week" dimension value, so I don't want to show all of these on the x axis as it will look cluttered.&nbsp; Ideally I only want to show a few - perhaps the first, last and two inbetween.&nbsp; I know you can use the 'stagger labels' function but this does every other value and is not quite what I want.</P><P></P><P>I have been trying to achieve this by creating a rank of the week number and then use this to conditional set the font colour of the axis label e.g. set rank 1, 5 and 8 to black and the rest to white (using a chart with a white background).&nbsp; Therefore this would hide all but 3 labels.&nbsp; However, haven't managed to get it to work as yet.&nbsp; The advantage to this approach (if I can get it working) is that it will keep the gridlines (you lose them if the dimension label is not shown).</P><P></P><P>Any ideas most welcome.</P><P></P><P>Ta,</P><P>Mike.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 May 2013 16:22:42 GMT 2013-05-08T16:22:42Z Staggering labels on chart https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Staggering-labels-on-chart/m-p/440313#M559065 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I have a line chart that shows an expression over weekly values.&nbsp; There are many values for the "week" dimension value, so I don't want to show all of these on the x axis as it will look cluttered.&nbsp; Ideally I only want to show a few - perhaps the first, last and two inbetween.&nbsp; I know you can use the 'stagger labels' function but this does every other value and is not quite what I want.</P><P></P><P>I have been trying to achieve this by creating a rank of the week number and then use this to conditional set the font colour of the axis label e.g. set rank 1, 5 and 8 to black and the rest to white (using a chart with a white background).&nbsp; Therefore this would hide all but 3 labels.&nbsp; However, haven't managed to get it to work as yet.&nbsp; The advantage to this approach (if I can get it working) is that it will keep the gridlines (you lose them if the dimension label is not shown).</P><P></P><P>Any ideas most welcome.</P><P></P><P>Ta,</P><P>Mike.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 May 2013 16:22:42 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Staggering-labels-on-chart/m-p/440313#M559065 2013-05-08T16:22:42Z