topic Selection in bar/stacked chart question in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375730#M572391 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is it possible to set the 'primary' selection on a stacked bar chart when selection is made by selecting an area on the chart?</P><P></P><P>I have a stacked bar with a count expression, then two dimensions Date and Organisation. </P><P>So, along the bottom of the chart is the date, then the bar is stacked by Organisation. </P><P></P><P>What I want to do, is select an Organisation area in the chart and show all data for that organisation across dates (i.e., turn it into a single bar chart).&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>The default behaviour is to filter on the primary dimension which is Date. I don't want to have to select an organisation in the legend; that isn't intuitive for the user. 3 clicks sort of works, but it becomes messy and unintuitive, so I want to do it in one click only. </P><P></P><P>thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:16:03 GMT 2012-07-31T10:16:03Z Selection in bar/stacked chart question https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375730#M572391 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is it possible to set the 'primary' selection on a stacked bar chart when selection is made by selecting an area on the chart?</P><P></P><P>I have a stacked bar with a count expression, then two dimensions Date and Organisation. </P><P>So, along the bottom of the chart is the date, then the bar is stacked by Organisation. </P><P></P><P>What I want to do, is select an Organisation area in the chart and show all data for that organisation across dates (i.e., turn it into a single bar chart).&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>The default behaviour is to filter on the primary dimension which is Date. I don't want to have to select an organisation in the legend; that isn't intuitive for the user. 3 clicks sort of works, but it becomes messy and unintuitive, so I want to do it in one click only. </P><P></P><P>thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:16:03 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375730#M572391 2012-07-31T10:16:03Z Re: Selection in bar/stacked chart question https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375731#M572392 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>you can do selection from legend</P><P></P><P><IMG __jive_id="19166" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" onclick="" alt="select.PNG" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/19166_select.PNG" width="450" /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:34:42 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375731#M572392 2012-07-31T10:34:42Z Re: Selection in bar/stacked chart question https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375732#M572393 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks. I understand that the legend can be used - but this is difficult when there are over more than a few items to deal with (e.g., I have a stacked bar with over 25 organisation items as above); sometimes you can't see all these on the legend. </P><P>Is this just not possible?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:38 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375732#M572393 2012-08-07T11:45:38Z Re: Selection in bar/stacked chart question https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375733#M572394 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks. I understand that the legend can be used - but this is difficult when there are over more than a few items to deal with (e.g., I have a stacked bar with over 25 organisation items as above); sometimes you can't see all these on the legend. </P><P>Is this just not possible?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:54 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375733#M572394 2012-08-07T11:45:54Z Re: Selection in bar/stacked chart question https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375734#M572395 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks. I understand that the legend can be used - but this is difficult when there are over more than a few items to deal with (e.g., I have a stacked bar with over 25 organisation items as above); sometimes you can't see all these on the legend. </P><P>Is this just not possible?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:59 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375734#M572395 2012-08-07T11:45:59Z Re: Selection in bar/stacked chart question https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375735#M572396 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks. I understand that the legend can be used - but this is difficult when there are over more than a few items to deal with (e.g., I have a stacked bar with over 25 organisation items as above); sometimes you can't see all these on the legend. </P><P>Is this just not possible?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:46:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375735#M572396 2012-08-07T11:46:17Z Re: Selection in bar/stacked chart question https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375736#M572397 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>All I can suggest is that you a list box next to the chart for the organisation selection.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P>Jonathan</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:57:32 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Selection-in-bar-stacked-chart-question/m-p/375736#M572397 jonathandienst 2012-08-07T11:57:32Z