I am using qlikview to develop few applications. I am new to qlikview and I have a quick question. Can you please let know if qlikview supports annotations? I need to add annotations to timeline charts. Does qlikview support this feature? If so were can I find further details on this? I searched for this information on qlikview forums but couldn't find any.
I haven't seen a Google timeline visualization, so I may not be understanding.
I'm guessing you want your users to be able to go into a timeline chart, click on a data point, and enter some text to be associated with that data point. The text they entered would then be part of the application, so that if some other user went in to take a look, they could see the text. So you might go into a chart that shows sales by customer by month, and note that there is a sudden steep decline in a customer's sales, and you know that the customer demanded some discounts that you refused to grant them, so you enter "customer demanded 20% discount, we refused" as an annotation in the chart to explain what happened. Is that what you want?
If so, no, I'm afraid it isn't supported in QlikView. Well, certainly not easily, anyway. If your charts are somehow going to remain completely static, a user could create a new text object and position it next to the data point, mark that object to be shared with other users, and then other users could open up collaboration, select the object, and add it to their chart as well. Not easy, not intuitive, not recommended. The other bad way I'm thinking is to create an excel file with the data associated with the data points (such as customer, product and month), and enter the comments into the Excel file. The QlikView developer would modify the application to load this additional data from the Excel, and add it to the pop up you get when you hover over a data point. Not particularly easy or intuitive either, so I can't really recommend it.
I think this is one of those things we're just going to have to wait for QlikTech to develop.
Im not sure what you mean by annotations. Do you mean to put some text within the chart and place it in a particular area? You can do that by going to Properties > Presentation > 'Text in Chart'. You can write expressions to make calculations, or simple text.
To place it where you want, activate the chart and press Ctrl + Shift. Then use the arrows to move it.
Annotations like little mark-ups on certain points in a timeline chart, which on clicking would display text/info. Like the one similar to google annotated timeline visualization. Is it possible? Any way this functionality can be added?
I haven't seen a Google timeline visualization, so I may not be understanding.
I'm guessing you want your users to be able to go into a timeline chart, click on a data point, and enter some text to be associated with that data point. The text they entered would then be part of the application, so that if some other user went in to take a look, they could see the text. So you might go into a chart that shows sales by customer by month, and note that there is a sudden steep decline in a customer's sales, and you know that the customer demanded some discounts that you refused to grant them, so you enter "customer demanded 20% discount, we refused" as an annotation in the chart to explain what happened. Is that what you want?
If so, no, I'm afraid it isn't supported in QlikView. Well, certainly not easily, anyway. If your charts are somehow going to remain completely static, a user could create a new text object and position it next to the data point, mark that object to be shared with other users, and then other users could open up collaboration, select the object, and add it to their chart as well. Not easy, not intuitive, not recommended. The other bad way I'm thinking is to create an excel file with the data associated with the data points (such as customer, product and month), and enter the comments into the Excel file. The QlikView developer would modify the application to load this additional data from the Excel, and add it to the pop up you get when you hover over a data point. Not particularly easy or intuitive either, so I can't really recommend it.
I think this is one of those things we're just going to have to wait for QlikTech to develop.
