Story Timeline Overview

Vizlib Story Timeline helps you tell a story in Qlik Sense with your data. Create visual, media rich, timelines in Qlik Sense with only a few clicks. It presents milestones on a timeline giving the user the ability to flick through the story of your dashboard, all with the power of the associative Qlik Sense in- memory engine.

Here are some example use cases:

  • Project management - view the stages of the project.

  • Customer relationship management - show interactions between sales reps and customers.

  • Historic story boards - bring history alive.

  • Political timelines - monitor elections.

  • Monitoring social media events on a timeline.

Vizlib Story Timeline is part of the Vizlib Library product suite, you can find out more about Library by watching our product demonstration. You can also download the product catalogue here.

We've organized our documents into several categories, and to make them easy to find, we've included keywords in the document title.

This topic contains the following sections:

Introduction

This page helps you get started with Vizlib Story Timeline and explains where to find the information you need.

If you're new to our products, why not watch our video on getting started with Vizlib here?

You can find the latest version of Vizlib Story Timeline on our User Portal in the Library section of the Downloads page. The software includes an installation file and a demo app showing you how Vizlib Story Timeline works.

Guides

Guides are articles which contain technical information relating to Vizlib Story Timeline.

Vizlib products all have the same installation process, and there are installation guides for Qlik Sense server and desktop. Vizlib Story Timeline uses a setup wizard.

Properties

Properties articles contain information on the Property Panel, which you use in the Qlik Sense Hub to manage functions for Vizlib Story Timeline. These articles cover subjects like Data Handling, Appearance and Settings.

Best Practice and Troubleshooting

You can use our Best Practice and Troubleshooting article if you start seeing errors or exceptions in Vizlib Story Timeline. We've compiled a guide for best practice and known issues which you can find here.

Changelog

The Changelog contains details for each release of Vizlib Story Timeline, such as new features and bug fixes. You can find the changelog here, and you can sign up to receive notifications of new releases for all Vizlib products here.

Examples

Figure 1 shows a Vizlib Story Timeline of the first stages of Vizlib's journey. Figure 2 shows a timeline of events from Nelson Mandela's life, and Figure 3 shows a story timeline being added using the setup wizard.

Figure 1: Vizlib Story Timeline

Figure 2: Mandela Story Timeline

Figure 3: Vizlib Story Timeline Wizard

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