topic Weird bar widths in QlikView

Weird bar widths

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:01:34 GMT

I have two bar charts that are behaving very differently. The underlying data are of the same type for both charts. I would like to control the width of the bars so that the bars are about as wide as they are in the second of my two charts. In Properties -> Presentation the bar and cluster distance settings are disabled so no help there. Anyone know why two so similar charts behave so differently? How can I enable bar and cluster distance settings? Will it help?

Martin.

Chart 1 (no so pretty)

Chart 2 (more like I want it)

Weird bar widths

fernandotoledo — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:51:46 GMT

This happens because you set X axis as Continuous, and the only configuration you could do this way is "allow thin bars".

Even if X axis isn´t continuous, QlikView set´s the bar widht automaticaly.

I would recomend you to try a line chart in this case. Check the link bellow for more info:

http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/over-plotting_in_graphs.pdf

Weird bar widths

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:55:55 GMT

Thanks for your reply and the link. I will take your suggestion into consideration,

Martin.