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.
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.
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.
