Custom reference lines by end user is possible?

[siri_v]

Hi all,

Lets say I have a simple Line chart with time frame on X-axis and Total Sales on Y-Axis. One of my clients wants the ability to be add reference lines based in the line chart based on when event outage happened. 

Is this possible in Qliksense please? Any inputs would be appreciated 

[abhijitnalekar]

Hi @siri_v ,

Yes, you can add reference line on the chart base on user input.

for that you need to drag a variable input component from a custom object and store the value in a variable. get from the input component., and use the same variable in the reference line 

[abhijitnalekar]

Please follow the below steps to achieve the requirement.

1. drag Variable Input componant from Qlik dashboard Bundle.

2. Create a New Variable as inputvariable

3. Use the same created variable in variable input

4. In Line chart Addon set created variable 

results as below.

[siri_v]

Thank you for your response @abhijitnalekar  

Unfortunately this does not answer my question.. Let me make it more clear.. Let's say I have the below line chart. The client wants to have the ability to draw vertical lines. For example.. Red verticle line on Jan and label as "Failure1" .  Orange verticle line in May  ad label as"Profit1". 

He needs more like annotations.. I even tried annotations but I was not very clear about it.. 

Client wants to add add verticle reference lines and label it with some event name with respect to the X axis.  

If this can be solved by the variable input method, Can you explain how it can be added as verticle line please.. 

Thanks a ton 

[abhijitnalekar]

HI @siri_v ,

It looks not feasible as per my knowledge to adding a verticle reference Line.

But as you have described the requirement I can suggest a workaround for the same.

As the client wants to highlight the month on the basis of some threshold, we can handle it by using variable input and color the trend line as per the value.

Eg.  as Jan is a Failure we can color the Jan month in red and May in Green some thing like this.