Color by dimension in Mekko Chart

[data_RN]

Hello, 

I am looking for a bit of help with Mekko Charts.  I finally having it displaying all the data I need, but now I need to set the colors.  I want to display the color based on the dimension.  I have figured out how to set in all the other graphs except for this Mekko.  I want it by stage and yet, I can only seem to get variability with the   Color Schemes, but I want the colors I set in the Dimension.  Is this possible?

Thanks as always for your awesome guidance...!

[Sweta_Sharma · Accepted solution]

Hi @data_RN ,

Mikko chart can be colored by dimension values by choosing dimension from drop down list in custom colors option-

Reference document-
https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/February2021/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Visualizations/Mekko...

Hope this help 🙂

[data_RN]

Hello @Sweta_Sharma , 

Thanks for putting this out there.  I didn't accept this as a solution ,so not sure how that happened, but this doesn't answer my question.  I am trying to set the colors using the colors I have set in the dimension (see the upper left corner of my screenshot), but when selecting color by dimension I can only seem to select from the color schemes on the bottom right and they are not the colors I need.  Is there a way to set the colors in the formula?  Maybe this could override the color schemes?

[Charlie1]

I also have the exact same issue. Even when I choose a master dimension which has pre-set colours based on the values from the colour by dimension option it still stays as the first 2 colours from the 12 colours option. 

I have even tried putting into the expression editor if(Flag_Payment_Web='Web',Red(),Green()) to see if I can change the colours but no luck. Weirdly though when I do this expression and then hover over the chart it shows the % and value and then shows the RGB colour is set to 0,128,0 but it's still blue and not green 😞

Has anyone found a solution for this?? 

[Neil_Southern]

@Charlie1 We are hitting same issue in Nov 2021 , can anyone from Qlik @Sweta_Sharma acknowledge this is a bug in Nov 2021 ?

[Julian_Noll]

Has anybody found a solution to this?

Facing the same problem in December 2024

[DimSum]

Also having the issue of defined dimension colors not appearing in a Mekko chart on the May 2024 version of Qlik Sense on Windows.  They work in other chart types.

[LKNxam]

Hi there,
I'm working in the May 2029 Patch 9 environment and I'm experiencing the same issue — I'm battling to control the colours of the Mekko chart.