Bar chart in Qlik Sense Enterprise edition does not offer second dimension option

[NikosSpanos]

I am using Qlik Sense Enterprise and I want to follow a solution that I saw to use two dimensions on the y-axis of the bar chart (horizontal bar plot).

Unfortunately my version of Qlik Sense Enterprise does not offer an option to add two dimensions at the same axis, see the image below:

Can I have a work-out to explicitly use Bar Chart with two dimensions at the same axis on Qlik Sense Enterprise?

Note: Using the Alternative dimension is not an option that I want to follow.

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You can't have multiple dimensions AND multiple measures - it's one or the other. If you'd like to use multiple dimensions, remove one of your measures.

[NikosSpanos]

You are totally right. For me it's more like a UI design mistake because if the Add button is collapsed it means that it's not provided by the application. On the contrary it could be Disabled or a message could pop out to notify me that I cant have multiple measures and multiple dimensions at the same time.

Anyways ty a lot for the insight and the quick responses. You have provided so far valuable insights to a beginner :).

Kudos

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Glad to help. This one caught me out when I started using Qlik Sense a couple of years ago, after over a decade with QlikView. I don't think it's a great UX choice to do it this way, but that's how they did it - the underlying assumption is that the developer knows they don't allow both which to me is not intuitive. Obviously you can only have one legend and multiple dimensions / multiple measures would both require using a legend to tell them apart, but they could have done e.g. Dim1 - Expr1, Dim1 - Expr2 etc. in the legend.

I guess you're trying to work around that color issue you described in the other thread? You might be able to get around it using a synthetic dimension and a pick() measure (one measure, but pick the correct one). I wasn't able to give it a ton of thought so I didn't put in a suggestion.

[NikosSpanos]

Indeed I try to solve the color formatting issue, which i managed to figure it out with ValueList as a second dimension. And the rest worked based on this thread .