Flexmonster’s appearance can be defined within the report. Options are used to specify the appearance and functionality available to customers. For example, you can show/hide features such as filters and sorting controls, define date patterns, or enable/disable the drill-through.
Options are defined in an options object inside the report. If no options are specified, Flexmonster will use the default options. This tutorial explains which options are available and how to use them.
Our default options are defined automatically, so you only need to define the options you want to modify. All options can be divided into three subgroups:
Read this section to learn how to set the options. The default options section contains an example of Flexmonster’s default options.
Visit our Examples page for live examples that demonstrate how to use different options.
All grid options are in the grid
section of the options
object.
grid.type | String. The selected grid’s type. The following grid types are supported: "compact" , "classic" , and "flat" . Default value: "compact" . |
grid.title | String. The title of the grid. Default value: "" . |
grid.showFilter | Boolean. Indicates whether column/row filter controls and report filter controls are visible on the grid (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
grid.showHeaders | Boolean. Indicates whether the spreadsheet headers are visible (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
grid.showTotals | String. Specifies where to show totals: in rows ("rows" ), in columns ("columns" ), in rows and columns ("on" ) or not at all ("off" ). Default value: "on" . |
grid.showGrandTotals | String. Specifies where to show grand totals: in rows ("rows" ), in columns ("columns" ), in rows and columns ("on" ) or not at all ("off" ). Default value: "on" . |
grid.grandTotalsPosition | String. Indicates whether the grand totals are displayed at the top of the table ("top" ) or at the bottom ("bottom" ). Only available for the flat view. Default value: "top" . |
grid.showHierarchies | Boolean. Specifies how to show drillable hierarchy cells on the grid: with a link on the right (true ) or with an icon on the left (false ). Default value: true . |
grid.showHierarchyCaptions | Boolean. Indicates whether the hierarchy captions are visible (true ) on the grid or not (false ). Default value: true . |
grid.drillthroughMaxRows | Number. Sets the maximum number of rows for the SSAS drill-through pop-up window. Default value: 1000 . |
grid.showReportFiltersArea | Boolean. Indicates whether the report’s filtering cells on the grid should be visible (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
grid.dragging | Boolean. Indicates whether the hierarchies on the grid can be dragged (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
grid.showAutoCalculationBar | Boolean. Indicates whether the autoCalculationBar feature is turned on (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
All chart options are in the chart
section of the options
object.
chart.type | String. The selected chart type. The following chart types are supported: "column" , "bar_h" , "line" , "scatter" , "pie" , "stacked_column" , and "column_line" . Default value: "column" . |
chart.title | String. The title of the chart. Default value: "" . |
chart.showFilter | Boolean. Indicates whether column/row filter controls and report filter controls are visible on the charts (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
chart.multipleMeasures | Boolean. Available from v1.9. Indicates whether to show multiple measures on charts. Default value: false . |
chart.oneLevel | Boolean. In a drillable chart, defines whether the chart shows all nodes on the x-axis and the legend (false ) or only the lowest expanded node on the x-axis and the legend (true ). Default value: false . |
chart.autoRange | Boolean. Indicates whether the range of values in the charts is selected automatically or not. Default value: false . |
chart.reversedAxes | Boolean. Reverses the columns and rows when drawing charts. Default value: false . |
chart.showLegend | Boolean. Indicates whether the legend for the charts is visible (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
chart.showLegendButton | Boolean. Indicates whether the button to show/hide the legend for the charts is visible. When set to false , the legend is visible, without a button to hide it. Default value: false . |
chart.showDataLabels | Boolean. Setting this value to true allows showing labels in charts. If the value is false , the labels will be hidden. Use showAllLabels to configure the labels in a pie chart. Default value: false . |
chart.showAllLabels | Boolean. Setting this value to true allows showing all the labels in a pie chart. If the value is false then only the labels that can be shown without overlapping will be shown. Default value: false . |
chart.showMeasures | Boolean. Hides all dropdowns on the tops of the charts. This is useful if you want to show a simple chart without any controls or if you want to save space. When set to true , the dropdowns are visible. Default value: true . |
chart.showOneMeasureSelection | Boolean. When set to true , the measures dropdown is always visible – regardless of the number of measures in it. If the value is set to false , the measures dropdown on charts will be hidden if there is only one measure in the list and visible if there are two or more measures. Default value: true . |
chart.showWarning | Boolean. Indicates whether warnings are shown if the data is too big for charts. Default value: true . |
chart.position | String. The positions of the charts in relation to the grid. It can be "bottom" , "top" , "left" , or "right" . Default value: "bottom" . |
chart.activeMeasure | Object. Identifies the selected measure in the charts view. |
chart.activeMeasure.uniqueName | String. The unique measure name. This measure must be present in the slice.measures property. |
chart.activeMeasure.aggregation | String. The measure aggregation type. This aggregation must be defined for the measure in the slice.measures.aggregation property. |
chart.pieDataIndex | String. The selected column member index. Learn more about the pie chart structure. Indexes start from "0" (the first member of a column field). If pieDataIndex is set to a non-existing index, the default index will be used. Default value: "0" . |
chart.axisShortNumberFormat | Boolean. Indicates whether axes labels on charts are displayed using a short number format like 10K, 10M, 10B, 10T (true ) or not (false ). Default value: undefined (show short format if the max value > 10M). |
All the general options are in the options
object.
viewType | String. The type of view to show: "grid" or "charts" or "grid_charts" (starting from v1.9). Default value: "grid" . |
filter | Object. Filtering options: |
filter.timezoneOffset | Number. The difference (in minutes) between UTC and the user’s local time zone. Used to specify time zone for the dates in the date query filter. Default value: the user’s local time. |
filter.weekOffset | Number. Sets the number of days to be added to the start of the week (Sunday). Used to adjust the first day of the week in the filter’s calendar. Default value: 1 (Monday is the first day of the week). |
filter.dateFormat | String. The date pattern to use to format dates in the filter’s date inputs. Has two possible values: "dd/MM/yyyy" and "MM/dd/yyyy" . Default value: "dd/MM/yyyy" . |
filter.liveSearch | Boolean. Indicates whether the search in the filter pop-up window is performed while the user types (true ) or requires the Enter button to start searching (false ). Default value: true . |
configuratorActive | Boolean. Indicates whether the Field List is opened (true ) or closed (false ) after the component is initialized. Default value: false . |
configuratorButton | Boolean. Indicates whether the Field List toggle button is visible (true ) or not (false ). Default value: true . |
showAggregations | Boolean. Indicates whether the aggregation selection control is visible (true ) or not (false ) for measures on the Field List. Default value: true . |
showCalculatedValuesButton | Boolean. Controls the visibility of “Add calculated value” in the Field List. Default value: true . |
showEmptyValues | Boolean | String. Specifies where to show members with empty values on the grid and charts: in rows ("rows" ), in columns ("columns" ), in rows and columns (true ), or not at all (false ). Only for "csv" and "json" data source types. Default value: false . |
grouping | Boolean. Indicates whether grouping is enabled. This feature allows customers to group chosen elements using a filter window. For example, if the customer has shops in different cities and wants to analyze sales information, it would be possible to combine several cities in one group by geography, by sales numbers, etc. Only available for "csv" and "json" data source types. Default value: false . |
editing | Boolean. Indicates whether the editing feature is enabled (true ) or disabled (false ) on the drill-through pop-up window for CSV and JSON data sources. The user will be able to double-click the cell and enter a new value into it if the editing feature is enabled. Default value: false . |
drillThrough | Boolean. Indicates whether the drill-through feature is enabled (true ) or disabled (false ). The user can drill through by double-clicking the cell with a value. Default value: true . |
showDrillThroughConfigurator | Boolean. Indicates whether the Field List toggle button is visible in the drill-through view. Only for "csv" , "json" , "api" , "microsoft analysis services" (for Flexmonster Accelerator), and "elasticsearch" data source types. Default value: true . |
sorting | String. Indicates whether the sorting controls are visible in rows ("rows" ), in columns ("columns" ), in rows and columns ("on" or true ) on the grid cells, or not visible at all ("off" or false ). Default value: "on" . |
readOnly | Boolean. When set to true , enables the read-only mode for the component.In the read-only mode, you cannot interact with the report via UI (e.g., the context menu, expands, and drills are disabled). In addition, configurations of the following options are ignored: showFilter (for both grid and charts), dragging , showMeasures , configuratorButton , sorting , and drillThrough .We also suggest hiding the Toolbar when using the read-only mode. Default value: false . |
defaultDateType | String. Used to specify which data types should be applied to date fields by default ("date" , "date string" , "year/month/day" , "year/quarter/month/day" , or "datetime" ) for CSV and JSON data sources. Default value: "date" . |
strictDataTypes | Boolean. Allows you to increase the data processing speed. Only for "json" data source type. Setting strictDataTypes to true will make the component treat numeric values (or any other marked as a measure) only as measures and won’t allow them to be used as hierarchies. To enable this feature, add isMeasure: true to a numeric field (check out an example). Default value: false . |
distinguishNullUndefinedEmpty | Boolean. Allows distinguishing null, undefined, and empty values. When set to false , the component treats null, undefined, and empty values as the same value. When set to true , there are three different values. Default value: false . |
datePattern | String. Allows specifying how the component displays “date string” date fields ("type": "date string" in JSON, "ds+" prefix in CSV). Default pattern string: "dd/MM/yyyy" . |
dateTimePattern | String. Allows specifying how the component displays “datetime” date fields ("type": "datetime" in JSON, "dt+" prefix in CSV). Default pattern string: "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss" . |
timePattern | String. Allows specifying how the component displays “time” date fields ("type": "time" in JSON, "t+" prefix in CSV). Default pattern string: "HH:mm:ss" . |
dateTimezoneOffset | Number. Allows setting the timezone for hierarchical dates (for JSON: "date" , "year/month/day" , and "year/quarter/month/day" ; for CSV: "d+" , "D+" , and "D4+" ). See an example. |
saveAllFormats | Boolean. If there are more than 20 formats defined, only the formats that are used for "active: true" measures will be saved in the report. In order to save all the formats, set the saveAllFormats property to true . Default value: false . |
showDefaultSlice | Boolean. Defines whether the component selects a default slice for a report with an empty slice (when nothing is set in rows, columns, report filters, and measures). If true , the first hierarchy from data goes to rows and the first measure goes to columns in the default slice. To avoid this default behavior, set this property to false . Only available for "csv" and "json" data source types. Default value: true . |
useOlapFormatting | Boolean. Indicates whether the values from data source will be formatted according to the format defined in the cube (true ) or not (false ). Default value: false . |
showMemberProperties | Boolean. Indicates whether the member properties for an OLAP data source are available in the component (true ) or not (false ). This feature is only for "microsoft analysis services" and "mondrian" data source types. Default value: false . |
showEmptyData | Boolean. It defines the component’s behavior in case of an empty data source. Flexomontser handles the empty data in two ways:
true .
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defaultHierarchySortName | String. The sorting type for hierarchies’ members ("asc" , "desc" , or "unsorted" ). Default value: "asc" . |
showOutdatedDataAlert | Boolean. Setting this value to true will show a warning to the user before automatic reloading of data from the cube. There will be no warnings if set to false . Only for Flexmonster Accelerator. Default value: false . |
expandExecutionTimeout | Number. Allows specifying an execution timeout for the expandAllData() function. The timeout is set in milliseconds (i.e., 9000 equals 9 seconds). The minimum timeout value is 9000 . Note that a large execution timeout can cause an unresponsive script alert.Default value: 9000 . |
showAggregationLabels | Boolean. Indicates whether aggregation labels like "Total Sum of" , "Sum of" , etc. are shown in the column/row titles. Default value: true . |
showAllFieldsDrillThrough | Boolean. Indicates whether prefiltering the drill-through view columns is enabled (false ) or if the drill-through view displays all the available columns (true ) when using SSAS with Flexmonster Accelerator. Default value: false . |
liveFiltering | Boolean. Indicates whether the live filtering for hierarchies’ members is enabled (true ) or disabled (false ). Default value: false . |
showFieldListSearch | Boolean. Indicates whether the search bar in the Field List is shown (true ) or hidden (false ). When the search bar is hidden, it will be shown only when the number of the hierarchies exceeds 50 (or 40 for the flat form). Default value: false . |
useCaptionsInCalculatedValueEditor | Boolean. By default, Flexmonster uses field unique names in the calculated value editor. If useCaptionsInCalculatedValueEditor is set to true , the component will use field captions instead of unique names. Default value: false . |
validateFormulas | Boolean. Indicates whether validation is performed for calculated values (true ) or not (false ). If validation is turned on and the report contains an invalid formula, the “Wrong formula format” alert message is shown. To turn off the “Wrong formula format” alert message, set the validateFormulas property to false . Default value: true . |
caseSensitiveMembers | Boolean. Indicates whether the hierarchies’ members are case-sensitive (true ) or not (false ). Default value: false . |
simplifyFieldListFolders | Boolean. Indicates whether the folders containing one field should show this field in the root (true ) or not (false ). Only for Elasticsearch and SSAS data sources. Default value: false . |
validateReportFiles | Boolean. Indicates whether validation of report files is turned on (true ) or turned off (false ). Setting this value to false allows loading report files in the old format without an error message. Should be used in global options. Default value: true . |
fieldListPosition | String. Indicates whether the Field List is always shown on the right ("right" ) or in the pop-up window (undefined ). Default value: undefined . |
allowBrowsersCache | Boolean. Indicates whether browsers are allowed to cache the data (true ) or not (false ). When allowBrowsersCache is set to false , caching is not allowed, and Flexmonster appends a unique id to the data source’s URL to ensure that the URL stays unique. The unique URL prevents the browser from loading the data from its cache, so the data is updated every time it is requested. Setting allowBrowsersCache to true allows caching, and the URL remains unmodified (check out an example). Default value: false .
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Options can be set in several ways:
{Check out a live sample on JSFiddle.
"dataSource": {
"filename": "https://www.flexmonster.com/download/data.csv"
},
"options": {
"grid": {
"title": "Results"
}
}
}
flexmonster.setOptions({ chart: { title: "Chart One" } });
flexmonster.refresh();
If an options
object is not defined in the report, Flexmonster Pivot will use global options if they are defined, or defaults from the component. These options can be overridden in the report.
{ "dataSource": { "filename": "https://www.flexmonster.com/download/data.csv" }, "options": { "viewType": "grid", "grid": { "type": "compact", "title": "", "showFilter": true, "showHeaders": true, "showTotals": "on", "showGrandTotals": "on", "grandTotalsPosition": "top", "showExtraTotalLabels": false, "showHierarchies": true, "showHierarchyCaptions": true, "drillthroughMaxRows": 1000, "showReportFiltersArea": true, "dragging": true, "showAutoCalculationBar": true, "showEmptyValues": false }, "chart": { "type": "column", "title": "", "showFilter": true, "multipleMeasures": false, "oneLevel": false, "autoRange": false, "reversedAxes": false, "showLegend": true, "showLegendButton": false, "showDataLabels": false, "showAllLabels": false, "showMeasures": true, "showOneMeasureSelection": true, "showWarning": true, "activeMeasure": {} }, "filter": { "weekOffset": 1, "dateFormat": "dd/MM/yyyy", "liveSearch": true }, "configuratorActive": false, "configuratorButton": true, "showAggregations": true, "showCalculatedValuesButton": true, "grouping": false, "editing": false, "drillThrough": true, "showDrillThroughConfigurator": true, "sorting": "on", "defaultDateType": "date", "strictDataTypes": false, "datePattern": "dd/MM/yyyy", "dateTimePattern": "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", "saveAllFormats": false, "showDefaultSlice": true, "useOlapFormatting": false, "showMemberProperties": false, "showEmptyData": true, "defaultHierarchySortName": "asc", "showOutdatedDataAlert": false, "showAggregationLabels": true, "sortAlphabetically": [], "showAllFieldsDrillThrough": false, "liveFiltering": false, "showFieldListSearch": false, "validateFormulas": true, "caseSensitiveMembers": false, "simplifyFieldListFolders": false, "validateReportFiles": true, "fieldListPosition": undefined, "allowBrowsersCache": false } }
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