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[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

When setting charts' appearance with colour by the expression, the legend is hidden and the corresponding options in property manual is disabled.

Charts affected: Bar chart,  Combo Chart, Gauge, Line Chart, Pie Chart, Scatter plot

Customers have requested for this feature to be revisited and for legends to be enabled when the expression is a color code.

[Cameron94]

Fantastic, this is something that would really help. 

Thanks 🙂 

[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

Hello @Cameron94 !

Don't forget to vote it up with a thumbs up 👍 😊

All the best,
Sonja 

[mattphillip]

This won't just help, it's a MUST for any company or institution looking to adopt QlikSense as their BI tool. Without this, we cannot apply our corporate colour palette consistently. Qlik, and specifically Qlikview was great as you could customise almost everything. The flexibility was worth the effort. However, QlikSense current lacks this flexibility. In some areas it doesn't matter so much, but in areas like this, its crucial!

[gramqlik]

There are several improvements that could be made to legends - sizing, positioning, ordering values, etc. Most essential though is to enable them to be displayed on charts using custom colours. 

The default colour schemes (by Dimension) are fine but there are just 2 of them, so highly restrictive. There aren't even obvious basic schemes for small numbers of values such as 3-colour traffic light, 7-colour roygbiv, 12-colour simple colour wheel.

Even a separate Legend-only chart type that we could drop onto the canvas next to existing charts would be better than the current situation.

[UncleRiotous]

We need this so badly.

[Brano]

Without this functionality it is impossible to create reports that meet company branding rules and color palette. I would be great to have this feature in a native charts.

[Patric_Nordstrom]

Thank you for your feedback on ways to improve our product. While this is something we understand would be useful, it's not on the short-term roadmap. Please continue to show your support for this idea.

The easiest way to get custom colors in legend is to use Assigning colors to master items.

An even better method is to use Silent Legend, to use colors in a way so legends are unnecessary.

Thanks,
Patric

[mattphillip]

Hello Patric,

Thank you for the reply. I'm sorry, but this response is ridiculous. To expect customers to retrain users to not refer to a legend? You're a multinational company and self-proclaimed market leader and you can't make a legend visible?

I don't think your master items solution will work in the case either as a lot of us are looking to colour by expression to enable the application of a corporate colour scheme, consistently, to different field values in a chart using a single measure.

You guys need to do better. This is a BASIC requirement. Were not looking to launch a Tesla into space here.

[6982blakey]

I see the current functionality as a bug.  I often use colours assigned to master items, but this isn't available  for drill dimensions.

I agree with an earlier comment that there is scope to radically improve legends.  On particular issue for me is that the legend will sometimes disappear if the chart is 'too small'.  This makes it incomprehensible for our users. We need the ability to select 'Always Show Legend'.  The same could be said for other chart elements.

[6982blakey]

I've just spotted another issue with losing the legend for a stacked bar chart is that you can't select the stacked dimension without it.  I would have to add a filter pane.