Column Configuration Dialog
You can change the format of the target column in the Column Configuration Dialog.
You can set the column display name that you want to use.
You can set font styles that you want to use for headers.
You can set font styles that you want to use for text in cells.
You can choose the column function you want to apply to the column data if available. The following functions are available depending on the data type of the target column.
Uppercase
Lowercase
Titlecase
Extract Alphabets
Extract Numbers
Extract First Word
Remove Spaces
Remove Repeated Spaces
Remove Alphabets
Remove Numbers
As Number
As Integer
As Character
Log (Natural Log)
Log 2
Log 10
Normalize
Year
Half Year
Quarter
Bi-Month
Month - Number (1)
Month - Short Name (Jan)
Month - Long Name (January)
Week of Year
Day of Month
Day of Year
Day of Quarter
Day of Week - Number (1)
Day of Week - Short Name (Mon)
Day of Week - Long Name (Monday)
Weekday/Weekend
You can set the sort order of the column. You can set either "Descending" or "Ascending". You can set the sort order in multiple columns. In this case, the sort happens in the priority order.
In case of Summarize Table, there will be no priority option. If you set a sorting option in one place, the sorting option you set in other place will be reset.
You can set Number Formatting for numeric columns. The following formatting options are available.
Type
Number: Format as simple numbers. This is the default type.
Currency: Format as currency. If you set a currency symbol, it will be added at the beginning of each number.
Percentage: Format as percentages. "%" sign will be added at the end of each number.
Digit: Number of decimal digits.
Symbol: Current symbol. It will be added to it will be added at the beginning of each number if the "Currency" type is selected.
You can enable Text Wrap option to allow showing the text in multiple lines.
You can set a URL Link on the column. You can dynamically construct the link with the associated column values by referencing the column name by ${}. Once you define a URL Link, the column value will be clickable and if a user clicks the value, it opens up the URL in an external browser.
For example, if you have a "Country" column in your table, you can set the URL http://exploratory.io/?q=${Country}. Then, the table output will look like this.
If you click "Germany", a browser opens up the URL https://exploratory.io/?q=Germany
If you want to use values as a URL parameter, check the "Apply URL encoding for the column value." checkbox.
You can set a column width. The unit is pixel.
You can set a Visual Formatting on each column. Visual formatting is available only for the numeric columns.
You can show inline bars in the column value cells. The bar length is depending on the column value. You can choose colors for positive values and negative values.
The output will look like this.
You can apply a color encoding to the column values. You can choose a color palette to apply from the list. You can apply colors to either the value text or background color.
This is the example of the color encoding applied to the background color.
You can apply a specific color only for the values that meet the condition. You can choose an operator and enter the value to construct a condition, and you can choose a color to apply from the list. You can apply colors to either the value text or background color.
You can create multiple conditions by clicking "+" icon. The conditions are evaluated from the top to bottom. You can remove unnecessary conditions by clicking "x" icon.
The following operators are available.
equal to
not equal to
is in
is not in
less than
less than or equal to
greater than
greater than or equal to
between
not between
This is the sample output of the Conditional Formatting.
