topic Horizontal bar chart - Legend above bars? in QlikView

Horizontal bar chart - Legend above bars?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:01:22 GMT

Hey all,

In a horizontal bar chart, is it possible to show legend above indidivdual bars? See in screenshot below (obviously just a quick & appalling Photoshop), where I would like captions 'Buil', 'De' and 'Wa' to appear.

Btw no idea why QV trims my legend in such an awful way, regardless of what I set in Presentation -> Limit Legend (Characters).

Thanks.

Re: Horizontal bar chart - Legend above bars?

Michael_Reese — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:00:54 GMT

There are a few things you can do on the presentation and axis tabs to control the truncation.

Ctrl-Shift allows you to resize and move objects in the chart around.

If your data points are static, you can try adding text to the chart through presentation properties.

Re: Horizontal bar chart - Legend above bars?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:31:09 GMT

Hi,

Neither of that helps, sadly. Our text is not static ('Buil' etc. are all values of a dimension in the underlying data), so adding text via Presentation > Text in Chart will not help.

Any other clues?

Re: Horizontal bar chart - Legend above bars?

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:12:02 GMT

Another thing to think about is adding a Dual expression with Value on Data Points. Take a look.