Element Properties

Anchor

If there is another existing element on your sheet that comes before in order, you will see an Anchor tab. This setting defines the relative position of elements on the report page. Drag the orange box "B" to set the position of this table with respect to the preceding element "A" or choose an anchor position from the drop-down list above.

To learn more about how all the positioning and sizing settings work together and affect each other and how to precisely position the elements on your report by combining them, go to Positioning and Sizing elements.

If your element is within a cycle section, please refer to details in Positioning elements within a Cycle.

Data Export

Data forms the base of all the insights derived from your reports. You may want to use the data shown in your reports elsewhere for calculations or as a source for some other tools or reports like in your Excel environment. Using the Data Export feature, you can enable the extraction of pure data out of all the Table elements in your report in form of Excel or CSV files.

Learn all about this feature in article Data Export.

Position

• Optionally, select to Place element on new page to add a new page to the report and start with this table object there.
• Use the alignment options to align the table object on the report page.

Size

Click the Size tab to set the type and width of the table size on your report and the content overflow behavior of the text.

Type

Here, you can choose any of the following options:

• Automatic: Select this option to automatically adjust the size of the element while maintaining the aspect ratio on the report page. It reflects the width of the table as it is on the Sense sheet.
• Percentage of page size: Select this option to define the Width as a percentage of the report page.
• Numeric value: Select this option to provide a specific Width value manually. By default, the width is measured in millimeters, but you can change the page unit in the Page Settings.

NOTE: There are no height settings for the tables as it is generated automatically according to the amount of data, number of rows, and other settings such as cell padding, font size, etc. You will see height settings only if you have selected the Process Table as Image option.

Content Overflow

• Hidden: The overflow is clipped, and the rest of the content will be invisible.
• Ellipsis: Renders an ellipsis ("...") to represent the clipped text.
• Line break: Acts like a word wrap and inserts a line break every time the text string would overflow the cell.

Scale and Page Break

If the setting Process Table as Image is enabled, you will see no Content Overflow setting, but instead Scale and Page Break.

Go to article Charts to learn all about these settings.

Spacing

Click the Spacing tab to define the distance of the table from neighboring elements on your report. You can do this separately for Left, Right, Top, and Bottom. The behavior of spacing depends on the selected size type.

1. If you have set the size type as Automatic or Percentage of page size, then the spacing will act as padding and affect the visual size of the chart.
2. If you have set the size type as Numeric, the spacing will act as a margin and affect the actual position of the chart.

To learn more about how all the positioning and sizing settings work together and affect each other and how to precisely position the elements on your report by combining them, go to Positioning and Sizing elements.

Fonts

Click the Font tab to specify the font properties of the table object.

• Font Family: Select one of the typeface options from the list.
• Font Color: Use the color picker or provide a HEX code to choose the font color.
• Font Size: Specify the font size for table content. You can use the expression for dynamic sizing.
• Font Style: Set the style to Normal, Bold, Italic, or Bold Italic.

Cell padding

Click the Cell Padding tab to define the distance of table content from the cell lines inside the table. Enter the padding value for Left, Right, Top, and Bottom.

Optionally, provide an expression for specifying conditional padding value.

NOTE: The cell padding value is always specified in points.

Border

Click the border tab to add a border around your table. Borders are particularly useful when you have multiple elements, as they present a clear picture of what element takes how much space. Once you have this visibility, you can easily decide the size and margin for elements.

Image Quality

Click the Image Quality button to define Image Processing, the dpi (dots per inch) settings, and Image Compression.

For Image Processing, you can select between two methods, Detailed and Fast:

• Detailed: Select this option to get a high image quality of the chart. It takes around 3-6 seconds to process such an image, as it will include all the parts and details and offers higher dpi settings.
  You can select the image quality preset from Low (96dpi), Medium (192dpi), and High (384dpi), or specify a value in between. The lowest and highest values are limited by Sense.
• Fast: Select this option for faster image processing. However, some of your chart details (e.g. a legend or a caption) may not be rendered in the image. You cannot define any dpi settings for the fast mode, and the images are always displayed in low quality.

For Image Compression level, you can choose from Fast, Medium, or Slow options. The Fast mode produces bigger file sizes and the Slow mode produces smaller file sizes.

Note

If you have selected the Process Table as Image option, you will see a Notes segment in the properties panel. You can add notes to your table objects to provide additional information to your users.

For example, you can add notes for commenting on something, drawing attention to a specific area in the report, taking a note for yourself, giving some context to colleagues, adding information that is not in the title or legend of the chart, and so on.

To add a note:

1. Specify the Title (optional) and Notes in the corresponding fields.
2. Alternatively, click fx to open the expression editor and provide the Title and/or notes using Qlik Expressions.
3. You can also specify the Position of the note with respect to the object. Select the position from the four available options, top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right.

If you generate a PDF report, then the notes are exported as actual annotations in the PDF file. Users with sufficient privileges can further edit them too, which enables active collaboration.

In the case of PPTX exports, the notes are shown in the Notes area at the bottom of each slide. As the PPTX does not show notes on objects, all the notes are shown collectively at the bottom. It is recommended to use Titles for notes to segregate them for each element.

TOC Table of Contents

If you added a TOC element to your report, you can choose for each other element, if it should appear in the table of contents or not. This might be useful to disable headers or paragraphs. You might also go for only enabling the header in the TOC instead of each object.

The following settings are available in this section:

• Show element in TOC: This is enabled by default and also applies should the TOC be set to Bookmarks only.
• Indent: The indent can also be set individually for each element in your TOC, creating a topic hierarchy. 
• Label: By default the element's Caption is populated as a label in the TOC, but you can choose a separate one just for display in the TOC here. 
• Font Style: This property can also be set individually for each element in this corresponding TOC menu of each element.

Events

With the help of a little JavaScript you can create On Before Element events for making selections or setting bookmarks in your app, based on an individual element. If you are familiar with JavaScript and the Qlik API, have a look at the fx Expression Editor of this setting to see examples and code snippets.