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Creating visualizations using chart suggestions

Qlik Sense offers a wide range of visualizations to use with your data. Deciding on the correct chart type to use with your data can be challenging, especially if you are creating your first app in Qlik Sense. Qlik Sense offers chart suggestions, enabling you to select data fields and let Qlik Sense choose the dimensions, measures, and visualization types for you. As you add or remove fields from the visualization, the suggested visualization adjusts itself automatically based on your changes. You can customize data in the suggested visualization with a focused set of properties settings. If you want to alter the visualization further, you can disable Assistance and have full access to all of the visualization properties.

If you already started a visualization, you can select Assistance and Qlik Sense will change your visualization to the suggested visualization.

Warning note

If you enable Assistance and then disable it, you will lose changes made to your visualization. You can restore your old visualization by undoing the changes. However, if you navigate away from Sheet view or make changes in the assets panel, you will not be able to undo and restore your visualization. For more information, see Undoing and redoing actions.

Information note

You cannot enable Assistance for a master visualization. You cannot enable Assistance for histograms or maps.

Information note

Charts with Assistance enabled are not supported in Qlik NPrinting reports. To include charts created using chart suggestions in Qlik NPrinting reports, disable Assistance.

Tip note If you want to add fields as filter panes without suggestions, hold the shift key when you drag and drop fields into your sheet.

Creating a new visualization using chart suggestions

Do the following:

  1. Click @ Edit in the toolbar.

    The assets panel opens on the left-hand side.

  2. From H Fields, drag and drop a field into your sheet.

    Fields that are suggested to be used as dimensions are added as tables or histograms.

    Fields that are suggested to be used as measures are added as a KPI visualization.

  3. Add additional fields by doing one of the following"

    • Drag and drop a field onto the first field.

      Qlik Sense determines if the field should be used as a dimension or measure and which measure operator to use with.

      If you want to add a field to a filter pane and keep the filter pane visualization, hold the shift key when you drag and drop the field.

    • Select the field in the sheet, click Add under Dimensions or Measures, and select a field.

    The visualization will change as fields are added to it.

  4. Optionally, remove unwanted fields.
  5. Optionally, adjust the settings in the properties panel for Data and Appearance.

    The properties panel for visualizations created with chart suggestions contains a focused set of properties settings from the properties panel for the visualization. For descriptions of these fields, see the visualization properties topics in Visualizations.

  6. Click @ Done.

Changing an existing visualization using chart suggestions

Do the following:

  1. Click @ Edit in the toolbar.

    The assets panel opens on the left-hand side.

  2. Select a visualization.
  3. In the properties panel, select Assistance.
  4. Optionally, add additional fields or remove unwanted fields.
  5. Optionally, adjust the settings in the properties panel for Data and Appearance.

    The properties panel for visualizations created using chart suggestions contains a focused set of properties settings from the properties panel for the visualization. For descriptions of these fields, see the visualization properties topics in Visualizations.

Your visualization changes to a visualization created using chart suggestions for the fields in the selected visualization.

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