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[goncalves_ep]

1. Concept

The International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) are practical proposals for the design of business communication.

In addition to the standard line, column and scatter charts, it uses waterfalls, variance charts and overlapping bars/columns. These are used to create IBCS-compliant reports and interactive dashboards: for example, vertical waterfall charts are effective in displaying structural contributions to a total, or a variance chart would be used to show the change between two scenarios, with red representing a bad change and green a good one. In general, IBCS recommendations call for simple charts in black & white. This is because the IBCS philosophy is that colors should be reserved for more important things. Variances, for example. While red denotes negative variances, green denotes positive variances.

The 'Unify' rule of the SUCCESS formula states that semantic notation should be applied all components of a report. Content that means the same should look the same.

2. Business Context

Currently, the Financial Controllers from the Procurement team are very used to seeing their visualizations using this IBCS design standards. This also allows for easily printing reports, if necessary, having a clearer differentiation between the bars.

3. Feature Description

We would like to have the possibility to customize the bar charts using, instead of plain colors, with patterns. These patterns would be simple, like stripped, crossed stripped, and empty pattern (so to say, only an outline would be visible).

4. Feature Purpose

The goal of this feature is to provide the users the same type of visualizations they are used to. We also see this as a great enhancement for Qlik Sense native visualizations, meaning that more users around the globe could benefit from this new design feature.

5. Examples

In the following picture, we can see the current Year (YTD) as black fill, PY values as grey fill, Plan and Target values with white fill (and black outline) and Forecast values as stripes.

The stripes should be able have different coloring (FC and FC-1):

And there could also be other patterns (in IBCS, FC lin. is shown using crossed stripes).

6. References

 IBCS Standards 1.2 • IBCS - International Business Communication Standards

[MichelN]

This makes so much sense and would add value to every dashboard. Enabling pattern in the charts will also help color blind colleagues to read the dashboards faster.

[goncalves_ep]

That´s a great insight @MichelN 

For sure it will help us have the proper priority for such!

[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.

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Patric

[msan]

I was presenting ODAG to a client today and "by the way" showed that more is possible now in Qlik Sense than five years ago - by showing an IBCS-style bar chart a table (with use of svg).

I mentioned IBCS and they the client said "Yes! I noticed it and got instantly interested!".

I think the market for this type of charts in their Qlik-native form is underestimated. This would be a great market advantage.

Mike

[Meghann_MacDonald]

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