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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!

Custom chart color pallets in Flexmonster

Our tech team is dedicated to providing you with practical tips to make your experience Flexmonster Pivot Table more efficient. If you enjoyed our previous article on creating a custom theme for your report you’re in for a treat. Today, we’ll take customization a step further by demonstrating how to change chart colors directly from the user interface (UI) and apply those changes to all chart types.

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.

Pivot Table for Vue 3 applications

For the last few years, Vue.js has notably risen in popularity among modern JavaScript frameworks. Thousands of developers prefer to use Vue in their projects, choosing the best features of React and Angular that are combined in this web development tool. Inspired by the success of the framework, in October 2020, creators released Vue 3, which has opened up new possibilities for building complex data-driven applications.

If you're looking for a powerful solution to boost your Pivot Table for Vue 3 applications, Flexmonster provides an excellent integration module tailored to meet your needs.

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.

Is there a perfect React-based Framework? Battle of three: Remix, Next.js, and Gatsby

The popularity of React has expanded beyond front-end development, and now it is used for different development purposes. This expansion has led to the appearance of new frameworks driven by the goal of enhancing the developer experience, optimizing processes, and addressing specific challenges. One of the main React challenges was struggles with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because of client-side rendering.

Flexmonster Pivot & Elasticsearch Integration

For years, Flexmonster performs seamless integration with Elasticsearch data source, but we keep working on it! It empowers you to unlock the full potential of Elasticsearch by creating dynamic reports and charts right within your browser. 

Flexmonster requires minimum efforts to set up the configuration, and the entire process is time-saving.

Flexmonster Performance: A Million Rows in Seconds

You definitely have noticed how swiftly Flexmonster displays thousands and millions of rows of your data.

But have you ever wondered how the pivot table component renders the rows of cells so fast each time you load a large data file? 

Let’s shed some light on the reasons for fast grid performance and develop an understanding of how Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts works under-the-hood.