# Building a story

The purpose of a story is to gather insight throughout your analysis and build clear narratives around your data. You structure the story in a way that makes it come out as convincing as possible to your audience.

Using slides, you can structure your story and put time-based snapshots of your data visualizations into these slides.

In this section, you can find examples on how to create a story, add some slides, take some snapshots, and remove some stories or slides.

## Creating a story

You can create a story by creating a new object or by cloning an existing story.

[Create a story](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2026/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Sense_EngineAPI/BuildingAStory/create-story.htm).

[Clone a story](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2026/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Sense_EngineAPI/BuildingAStory/clone-story.htm).

## Adding a slide to a story

You can create a slide by creating a child of a story.

[Add a slide to a story](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2026/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Sense_EngineAPI/BuildingAStory/add-slide.htm).

## Adding a snapshot to a slide

You can take a snapshot of an object and add it to a slide.

[Add a snapshot to a generic object](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2026/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Sense_EngineAPI/BuildingAStory/add-snapshot.htm).

## Reordering slides

You can reorder the slides in a story.

[Invert the order of the slides in a story](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2026/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Sense_EngineAPI/BuildingAStory/invert-slides-order.htm).

## Removing a story or a slide

You can remove a slide from a story or you can remove a complete story. The slides inside a story are removed at the same time as the story is removed.

[Remove a slide](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2026/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Sense_EngineAPI/BuildingAStory/remove-slide.htm).

[Remove a story](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2026/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Sense_EngineAPI/BuildingAStory/remove-story.htm).