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Visualize and Interpret Complex Data in jQuery

April 8, 2024
Adding heatmaps or treemaps to your jQuery app fosters improved decision-making by displaying data in an engaging and intuitive manner.

Heatmaps and treemaps are powerful data visualization tools that offer specific advantages when examining large datasets. A heatmap colorizes data values in a matrix, allowing for intuitive observation of trends, patterns, and outliers over two dimensions, making it helpful for spatial data analysis and correlation assessment. Treemaps exhibit hierarchical data as nested rectangles, with size and color variations indicating distinct quantitative values, allowing for effective use of space and fast comparison of proportions and relationships within hierarchical structures. Together, these chart types provide significant tools for visualizing and interpreting complex data, improving decision-making processes by presenting underlying data insights in a clear and actionable manner.

Several jQuery chart controls support the Heat and Treemap chart types, including:

  • DevExtreme Chart (part of DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress) offers a jQuery treemap component that allows for the hierarchical representation of data in a compact format.
  • Highcharts Core by Highsoft is a powerful and versatile JavaScript charting library that works with jQuery and supports various chart types including treemaps/heatmaps.
  • Kendo UI for jQuery Chart (part of Kendo UI by Telerik) includes jQuery heatmap and treemap controls that emphasize responsive design and rich interactivity.
  • Ignite UI jQuery Chart (part of Infragistics Professional) offers a wide range of interactive JavaScript/HTML5 charts including heatmaps/treemaps.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of jQuery chart controls.

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Break Down Language Barriers in Your Reports

April 4, 2024
Leverage a React reporting tool with localization support to make reports accessible for users across the globe.

Report localization is the process of adapting a report for a target audience's language and cultural context. This involves translating text elements, formatting dates and currencies appropriately, and potentially adjusting the user interface to accommodate different reading habits such as right-to-left layouts. The goal is to ensure the report is clear, informative, and culturally sensitive for users worldwide.

Several React reporting controls offer localization including:

  • DevExpress Reporting facilitates report localization through its resource compiler for text translation and right-to-left language support.
  • ActiveReportsJS by MESCIUS allows you to embed localized resources directly into reports for dynamic content based on user locale.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.JS offers a report designer with multilingual capabilities for creating localized reports with ease.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our React reporting controls comparison.

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Catch Data Entry Errors Early in Your Vue.js Apps

April 4, 2024
Data Editor controls with validation support prevent end users entering incorrect information into your apps.

Validation in data editor controls refers to the process of ensuring user-entered information conforms to predefined rules. This helps prevent invalid or erroneous data from being stored in your application. By implementing data validation, you improve data integrity, reduce the need for manual data cleansing, and ultimately streamline the development process by catching errors early on.

Here are some examples of Vue.js data editors that support data validation:

  • DevExtreme Complete Data Editors (part of DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress) empowers Vue.js developers with customizable data validation rules.
  • Kendo UI for Vue Data Editors (Part of Kendo UI by Telerik) offers validation features to ensure user input adheres to your data integrity requirements.
  • Wijmo Input and Editors (part of Wijmo by MESCIUS) enables Vue.js applications to implement data validation for a variety of editor controls, safeguarding data quality.
  • jQWidgets Data Editors (part of jQWidgets) facilitates enforcing data validation rules within Vue.js data editors, preventing invalid user input.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Vue.js Data Editors.

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Handle Form Field Data in Your Angular App

April 4, 2024
Learn how to use the Text Control Document Viewer to deploy forms for end users to fill out and save the retrieved data.

TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET is a server-side component that equips developers with a powerful word processing engine for web applications. It integrates seamlessly with ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, popular frameworks like Angular and React, and JavaScript, allowing you to build dynamic document editing and generation features directly within your web applications. This empowers you to create documents on the fly using data from various sources, edit existing documents in the browser, and handle functionalities like PDF processing and form filling, all on the server-side.

In this blog post, Text Control's Bjoern Meyer shows you how to use the Document Viewer in your Angular application to allow your users to open a PDF document, enter their data into the form fields, and save the document. Features include:

  • Form field validation including mandatory fields
  • Saving the form data values back as an array
  • Saving the document itself
  • Flattening the form fields to make the document read-only

Read the full blog to get started handling form field data in your Angular apps.

TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET is licensed per Developer and includes Run-time licensing for up to 5 Servers. Licensing is perpetual, and include a 1-year subscription. See our TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET licensing page for more details.

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Create PDF Forms In-Browser via Confluence

April 3, 2024
ONLYOFFICE Confluence Connector v5.0.0 lets you create interactive PDF forms that can be filled out directly in Confluence.

ONLYOFFICE Docs Enterprise Edition with Confluence Connector combines an online document editor with a seamless integration for Confluence, a centralized platform for project management and collaboration. This allows teams to create, view, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets, presentations, and text files online, directly within Confluence, boosting efficiency and eliminating the need for file switching.

The ONLYOFFICE Confluence Connector v5.0.0 release (available as part of ONLYOFFICE Docs Enterprise Edition with Confluence Connector v8.0.1) adds functionality allowing you to create complex PDF forms with interactive fields and fill them out online, directly within your Confluence platform. This ability empowers teams to design and distribute easily fillable PDF forms seamlessly within Confluence, collecting valuable data from their users and fostering a more collaborative and productive work environment.

To see a full list of what's new in ONLYOFFICE Docs Enterprise Edition v8.0.1 with Confluence Connector 5.0.0, see our release notes.

ONLYOFFICE Docs Enterprise Edition with Confluence Connector is licensed per server and is available as an annual license with 1 year of support and updates, or as a perpetual license with 3 years of support and updates. See our ONLYOFFICE Confluence connector licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our ONLYOFFICE Confluence Connector product page.