Editing your story

In the last section, Creating your story, we discussed the process of creating and telling a story, which is basically as follows:

  • Take a snapshot
  • Add it to a slide
  • Add decorations and more information
  • Play your story

Now, let's add some more insights to the story by collecting some snapshots from the Qlik Sense application using the following steps:

  1. Go to the Product Analysis sheet and select the Beverages option under the Category section, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. The bar chart will show the products from this category. Place your cursor over this chart and take a snapshot, renaming it as Top products for Beverage, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Using the same process, collect a snapshot from the scatter graph, renaming it as Products Discount x Sales for Beverages, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Collect a snapshot from the time series chart, renaming it as Beverages Sales over period, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once we have three snapshots (remember the rule of three?), let's include them in the story, as follows:

  1. Go to the Stories menu and click on My new story, which will allow us to edit the story as we want, as shown in the following screenshot: 

  1. Since we already have a top bar, we can reuse it here. Duplicate this by right-clicking on our first slide and using the Duplicate option, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Remove all graphical objects but leave the top bar and the title. Change the title to Beverages Analysis, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Drag the snapshots that pertain to the Beverages category onto our sheet, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Add a text object of the Paragraph type and a shape to describe some elements and add some information. Use the color gray, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Sometimes, the object may be superimposed. In this case, right-click and change the order of the objects, as depicted in the following screenshot:

  1. Add an effect to the bar chart by highlighting the product that has the highest sales, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. To do this, choose the highest value effect and drag and drop it over the graph, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. The slide should look as follows:

Use the Play the story button to see how the story is displayed. You can navigate through the slides using the keyboard (the left arrow goes to the previous slide and the right arrow advances to the next slide).

To test this feature, go to the source by moving the mouse over the bar chart. This is done to ensure that it is the exact selection that was made when the snapshot was taken, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can also insert a whole sheet from our app into our story. To do this, go to the menu on the right and select an option from the Sheet library, as shown in the following screenshot:

The selected options will be shown as in the following screenshot:

You can choose from three alignment options, as shown in the following screenshot:

Please note that when you add a whole sheet to your story, it is live data, so any data changes in your app will be reflected in your story. This is the opposite of a snapshot, which captures the values from the time when it was taken.
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