topic Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression in QlikView

Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:16:04 GMT

I need to create a chart to show Revenue by Product, in comparison with Total/Average Plan through the year. Excel manages to present this decently.

But I cannot do it with Qlik View. The data looks terrible and doesn't carry much business value. The Revenue breakdown cannot be shown with different Color. Total & Average Planned was not aligned to the time.

Any Guru has experience in managing dimension and expression in this case? I believe Qlik should be smarter than Excel. Appreciate any help.

Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

felipedl — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:27:33 GMT

Hi Angie,

I've made the adjustments so it's possible to plot the same information.

You need to use set analysis to get the individual values for each type of product to create the stacked bar chart.

Final result is this:

Or this, if you put the avg(Planned) to the secondary axis:

Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:47:27 GMT

Hi Felip,

The set analysis works fine with Revenue by Products. However, the Average for each year should be a constant. In the Excel chart, the formula would be sum(total planned) by year divided by 12.

Can you suggest expression to replace avg function in this case? Big thanks.

Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

felipedl — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:14:22 GMT

With the data you have, the avg of the planned wont be constant, due to the fact that you have multiple lines for each dimension, like so:

Year	Month	Year_month	Product	Rev	Planned
2016	Feb	2016_Feb	Smartphone	454	524
2016	Feb	2016_Feb	Accessories	557	642
2016	Feb	2016_Feb	Smartphone	586	676
2016	Feb	2016_Feb	Laptop	595	686
2016	Feb	2016_Feb	Laptop	618	713

That's the data you have on the app for 2016_Feb and the avg will be 648.2.

You have to define your data on a different way to get a constant value.

Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 03:36:56 GMT

Thanks Felip. Is there a work around to keep the dimension the same? As the purpose of chart is to show the breakdown by month and average by Year.

I managed to set up the formula in Excel as attached. Is it possible to have a similar expression in Qlik?

Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

felipedl — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:43:25 GMT

Thing is, you cant show a Year value when your opening it by Year_Month.

My solution would be to create new fields to get the result by doing:

LOAD Year,

Month,

Date#(Year &'_'&Month,'YYYY_MMM') as Year_month,

Product,

Rev,

Planned

FROM

[Company Revenue.xlsx]

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is [Rev report]);

// sum of planned by year

left join

Load

Year,

sum(Planned) as [New Planned]

Resident x

group by Year;

// count of year_months by year, being possible to not have full years on dataz

left join

Load

Year,

count(Distinct Year_month) as [Count Planned]

Resident x

Group by Year;

That gets me:

Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 06:52:02 GMT

Thanks Felip for detailed explanation. I can get the correct chart now.

Re: Weird Display in Chart with Multiple Dimensions & Expression

felipedl — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:25:36 GMT

Glad it helped .