Make selections based on a grouping (bin) instead of underlying values in a histogram object
The Qlik Sense histograms have some unexpected behavior. Selecting a bin, does not select the actual bin, but the individual values at that moment. This causes users to get wrong insights when depending on the order in which filters are added or removed. To get around this shortcoming, we now need to create groupings as a new dimension in the script and use a bar chart instead of a histogram.
So this is how a selection in a histogram behaves:
when I make a selection within the histogram for dimension A bin 20 – 40 the selection is made “Dimension A = 25 or 26”.
What our users would expect is that the selection:
when I make a selection within the histogram for dimension A bin 20 – 40 the selection is made “Dimension A is between 20 and 40”.
The histogram gives unexpected results when filters are added and then removed in a different order. It can lead to cases when values are not selected, even though they fit the the relevant histogram bin that is selected at that time. Especially unexperienced Qlik users complain about this, because they expect that the histogram works like a sorted barchart.
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