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[dimitar_dekov]

QlikView has a very nice feature that allows you to "animate" the first dimension of a chart. Although I have heard some analysts doubt the value of this feature besides making for a fancy presentation in front of your managers, I would argue there is a great value in helping people understand dynamic processes. Think of representing the evolution of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI or more recently - how countries deal with COVID-19.

Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XLXg4fYsc

Unfortunately, our favorite Analytics tool is currently not capable of creating the sort of visualization showed in the view above.

I would like to request that this feature (available in QV) is also added to Qlik Sense.

[inspari_dfg]

Well - this is actually already a feature that is available in Qlik Sense.

Just use the GeoAnalytics Animator object.

But I think that this should be a native object, or at least part of the Dashboard Bundle

[dimitar_dekov]

Thanks, @inspari_dfg, indeed I mean a native feature. And also - not a separate object, but a feature of the main native objects - the scatter plot, the bar chart, the line chart, the combo chart, etc. All charts can actually have a time dimension to animate. Same as in QlikView.

[Ian_Crosland]

Hi

Animator now added to the dashboard bundle for September release

thanks

Ian

[dimitar_dekov]

Hi, @Ian_Crosland  thanks a lot for following up on that. I really think that the Animator object is a move in the right direction, but I think all long-term Qlik folks here are thinking more about how QlikView was doing it - on the chart level and not on the sheet level. What the animator now does seem like a simple select action for the whole app or sheet - it cycles though the values in a field and all objects just follow the filter. As human attention cannot follow 2 or more charts at the same time, this means the animator should be meaningfully used only if you have one chart per sheet. This is quite limiting to the design choices.

[Patric_Nordstrom]

Adding and using an alternate state to the chart and the animator will limit the animation to just one chart

Thanks,

Patric