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Reporting

Learn how to make web reporting your strong side with Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts tool.

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 data 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.

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. 

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!

Boost Your Flexmonster Experience with Update Data 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.

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.

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.