Reporting

December 9, 2024

How to create an Interactive Map Dashboard with Flexmonster and amCharts: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Raw data can often feel like a maze—difficult to navigate and even harder to analyze to get useful information. That's where interactive dashboard come in. They turn all that complicated data into simple visuals that are easy to look at and explore, making it much quicker to notice some trends and patterns.

In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through creating an interactive map dashboard using Flexmonster Pivot Table and amCharts. 

October 14, 2024

A Guide to Using Grand Totals and Subtotals in Flexmonster Pivot Table

Our Tech team is always looking for ways to help you get the most out of our pivot table. If you found our previous article on managing date types useful, you'll want to keep reading. 

Today, we're focusing on two key features that make analyzing your data easier—grand totals and subtotals.

September 11, 2024

How to Manage Date Types in Flexmonster: Video Guide

We continue to share tips from our Tech team, and in this article, we will discuss more about managing data types in your reports. Dates are essential to any dataset. How you manage, and present date information can significantly impact the insights you derive and prevent mistakes and misunderstandings in data analysis. 

September 4, 2024

Top Tips from Tech team: 5 videos to watch about Flexmonster

Our Tech team continues to share valuable tips on how to get our component to full power and uses all means for that. On our YouTube channel, we have a separate Tips&Tricks playlist.

These videos are designed to provide practical insights and advanced techniques that empower you with the knowledge to tackle complex data challenges and make informed decisions easily.

Here is the list of ✨ 5 main videos from the Tips & Tricks series✨ we think every Flexmonster user should know about!

June 17, 2024

Understanding How to Configure a Report in Flexmonster

Today, we delve into the details of report configuration using Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts. In this video tutorial, we will guide you through the process of configuring a report to suit your specific needs and preferences.

April 30, 2024

Creating a custom theme for your report: Pantone’s 2024 color template

Our Tech team is committed to regularly sharing posts filled with handy tips and tricks. We truly hope these simple hints will spark inspiration and assist you in adjusting it to your reporting.

This time, we'll talk about the style of your pivot grid and how to create a custom pivot table theme.

April 11, 2024

Boost Your Flexmonster Experience with UpdateData API Call

There are tons of features you can combine in Flexmonster to reach the pivot table functionality you need. On our YouTube channel, we have started a series of videos called “Tips & Tricks” where we share different interesting approaches to maximize your Flexmonster experience.

The last video, Live data refresh/update hack, explains the details of updateData() API call usage. In this blog post, we will delve into the topic and see how it works from the inside.

March 12, 2024

Grid customization and styling beyond CSS

The look and feel of the component can be fully customized by means of CSS. It refers to colors, borders, buttons, pop-ups, and grid cells. But there are cases when just CSS is not enough for pivot table report. For example, when you want to represent the numbers in cells by pictograms showing how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ these numbers are.

February 28, 2024

Tutorial: Adding Custom Search to Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts

Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts is a feature-packed reporting component. However, we do not limit the opportunity to customize and implement specific features. Flexmonster has enough flexibility to support your application’s logic and adapt to how it works. So you can extend the functionality and user interface the way you need.

February 23, 2024

USEFUL: Add running totals to enhance web reporting

In today’s blog post I want to tell you how to get more from Flexmonster pivot with the help of running totals. To begin with, I’ll tell you what is it - running totals. This is one of the aggregations available for CSV, JSON, FDS databases, MongoDB, MS Analysis Services, and even custom data source APIs. Imagine a list of numbers. A running total keeps track of the sum of these numbers as you go down the list, adding each new number and subtracting any that are removed.