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NEW! 2.5 Release: load more data & visualize it faster

We've made great progress since our last summer release. This time we deeply worked on memory that component uses in a browser. You often have this question "How much data Flexmonster component can handle?". Being a client-side tool, it mostly depends on browser memory. Thus, we have been working on optimizing the component’s memory usage, especially when dealing with large amounts of data.

Today we are ready to show the changes we’ve made and how you can affect your business using the latest 2.5 version of Pivot Table & Charts component.

Let’s see:

On the Dark side of UI

We had this one frequent request from our clients that we’ve decided to fulfill. It’s not a secret that the dark UI trend that has started in the 2016 and still follows us in the design world.

We are not going to convince you to go to the dark side (are we?) but we have a lot of clients, who prefer dark style in their applications. So, for those who use it or are going to use it, we’ve made the predefined Dark Theme that you can use right now by adding just one line of code.

Before you do it, we want to show the look & feel:

Tremendous memory performance optimization in Flexmonster

Usually, significant improvements happen in major releases. However, this time we would like to shed some light on the extraordinary improvement that was done by our developers during several minor releases this winter. We are talking about the tremendous reduction of browser’s memory consumption by our component.

Manage time zones easily in your application

This blog post tells about the most popular date- and time-related issues our clients reported while analyzing data from databases, CSV, or JSON. We are happy to suggest a new simple approach which helps to manage time zones effectively.

NEW! Flexmonster 2.4 version is released: enjoy our improved styling

You know, we have this passion for what we do. For each new release, our developers work on new improvements to make the product stand up to new trends and perspectives.

Flexmonster pivot is designed to be friendly for developers and we try to enrich the product with all required features for this. And of course, we care about the user experience our end-users have with our Pivot table.

So, this release is all about styling: new handy user interface, the variety of built-in themes, new options to visualize data in the grid.

New 2.4 version feature: Welcome LESS and built-in themes

The feedback from our customers is a crucial source of improvements for Flexmonster team. We carefully collect the requests, analyze them and implement the most expected ones in our major releases.

In the 2.4 release, we decided to simplify the maintenance of CSS.

Increase the level of your data security with Flexmonster

When working with different data sources and giving access to your data to connect with our Pivot Table, you definitely want to be sure that it’s secured. This concern is understandable, thus we've developed simple solutions to protect your data.

CustomizeCell: the new level of grid customization

CSS gives us a lot of possibilities to change the look and feel of the component (read more in the Сustomizing appearance tutorial). But sometimes it is not enough. For example, what if we have a report with countries and want to make countries clickable (hyperlinks) and show additional details for each of them?

Toolbar customization: introducing new approach

As you already may know, in addition to pivot grid and charts our component is also bundled with handy Toolbar. It provides easy access to the most used features: connecting to data, opening saved reports, switching between different chart types, applying number and conditional formatting, exporting to Excel, etc. 

Moving to JSON: converter for old XML reports

Starting from version 2.3 we have moved from XML to new JSON format for saving pivot reports. It means that all inputs and outputs are now in JSON format by default. Despite the fact that all XML reports are still backward compatible, we are receiving numerous questions about an easy way of migrating to the new format.

NEW! Flexmonster 2.3 Release: Extended Opportunities for Your Reporting

Get ready to download the new version! Yes, Flexmonster 2.3 is released.

The new features that will help any integrator to use our сomponent even easier in their applications, better interface and possibilities for end-users to extend their reporting greatly - all this and more you will find in the new release.

Use Flexmonster Pivot Table with Any 3rd Party Visualization Tools in Upcoming 2.3 Version

The new 2.3 release greatly extends users’ possibilities and allows visualizing more complex data from our Pivot table with popular 3rd party visualization tools.