Qlik Sense introduces the concept of storytelling within the application. The data story interface helps the user to collate all the important observations and insights from the application to create a convincing narrative and present it to the intended audience in the form of a slideshow.
As in the previous recipe, we will again make use of the Automotive.qvf
Qlik Sense application.
To create a story, perform the following steps:
Automotive.qvf
application.Sales Overview
and description as A narrative of the overall sales for the company
.Adding contents to a storyboard:
Sales by Region and Territory
.AOME region has the highest number of total car sales while if we consider commercial vehicles, Americas leads the way.
China is the biggest market for cars followed by United States. There is very little comparison amongst the volume of sales for european nations Italy France and United Kingdom.
The story with all the essential elements, namely the snapshots, commentary and the highlighters, conveys the essence of the data to the audience. The data added through the snapshots contains static point in time information. Since stories are native to Qlik Sense, there is no need to create separate PowerPoint files for presentations. Although with Qlik Sense version 2.1.1, one has the option to export the stories to PowerPoint so that they can be shared offline.
While working in the story Edit mode, click on any individual object. On clicking the object we will find two options highlighted on the top right-hand corner. The first one is for Replace snapshot and the other one is for Unlock the snapshot. Use the following steps to explore the Replace snapshot and Unlock the snapshot functionalities:
A Qlik Sense storyline can also have embedded sheets. This is particularly useful if we want to showcase the entire content of the sheet on the slide.