Reports: Working with Pivot Tables
Spiro Reports offers a wide range of interactive options on a Pivot Table when accessed by an end-user. The options include Viewing Underlying data, sorting, exporting, sharing, and publishing a Pivot Table. In this section, we will discuss each of these options in detail.
Viewing Underlying Data
Spiro Reports provides an option to view (drill into) the data that makes up the Pivot Table using the option called View Underlying Data. You can click on any cell in the Pivot Table to view its underlying data in a pop-up table. Clicking your mouse over a cell in the selected Pivot Table will display its underlying data in a pop-up table. You can also view the overall data by clicking the option View Underlying Data in the toolbar.
The following screen-shot describes how underlying sales data will be displayed when you click on the relevant data point in the Pivot Table.
In case you have created a Pivot by joining two or more tables then you can view the underlying data by selecting the tables from the View Data From dropdown. By default, the option displaying the base table along with the related tables will be selected. You can also choose to view the individual tables separately.
The below example shows the View Underlying Data table of a report that was created by joining the Sales table and the Stores table. By default, the option Sales and Related Tables will be selected. This option will display the data from both Sales and Stores in a single table. However, if you wish to view the data only from the Stores table you can do so by selecting Stores from the View Data From dropdown.
The View Underlying Data table that opens provides options to Show/Hide columns, search, filter, and sort the data displayed. You can also export the underlying data into a variety of file formats like CSV, XLS, PDF, and HTML.
Note: View Underlying data option will be enabled only to users who have been provided that permission during sharing by the Administrator. Refer to the topic Sharing and Collaboration to know how to share your Pivot Tables
In Spiro Reports, Pivot Table can be sorted by its corresponding column values, data values and summary values.
Spiro Reports allows you to export the Pivot table that you have created into various file formats like CSV, PDF, XLS, and HTML.
To export a Pivot Table:
- Open the Pivot Table that you would like to export
- Select the Export button in the toolbar
- Select one of the five export format options:
- CSV - Exports the underlying data of the Pivot Table as a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file.
- Excel (XLS) - Exports the underlying data of the Pivot Table as an Excel file.
- PDF - Exports the Pivot Table in Portable Document Format (PDF) file format.
- HTML - Exports the Pivot Table in HTML file format.
- In the export settings window that opens, set the required options and then click the Export button at the bottom to export.
In Spiro Analytics, you can easily share a Pivot Table that you have created, for other users' access. You can also set specific permissions on the shared Pivot Tables so that the users would be allowed to do only permitted actions when they access it. The various share options are provided under the Share menu in the toolbar.
Refer Sharing and Collaboration to know how to share your Pivot Table.
Note: Share option will be enabled only to users who have been provided that permission during sharing by the Administrator.
Spiro Reports allows you to publish/embed Pivot Tables that you have created, into your websites/web pages or as iGoogle Gadgets or as easy to access URLs. Spiro Reports also allows you to control the access privileges and permissions provided to the users who access the Pivot Table.
Refer Publishing Options to know how to publish your Pivot Tables.
Note: This option will be enabled only to Administrator and Database Owners of the reporting database.
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