Flex has rich data visualization capabilities. The data visualization library consists of Charting, AdvancedDataGrid, OLAPDataGrid, and Automation components. Flex Charting has numerous chart types which you can use to build powerful, interactive charts quickly. It also has an extensible API for customization. AdvancedDataGrid is another powerful component which enables grouping, aggregation, and display of hierarchical data. Through OLAPDataGrid you can analyze flat data by generating client-side cubes and the automation plug-in helps test Flex applications.

The session provides an introduction to the data visualization library available in Flex 3, specifically the Charting, AdvancedDataGrid, and OLAPDataGrid components. It also gives an overview of the functionality of the components and explains how to use the various classes, methods, properties, and styles available to create powerful, interactive data visualization applications.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this session, you need the following software and files:

Flex Builder 3

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Prerequisite knowledge

This article assumes that you have the basic knowledge of Flex and the data visualization library.

This presentation covers the following topics:

• Chart types
• Chart interaction, per item labels, fills, workweek axis
• Chart multiple axes, data graphics, and miscellaneous enhancements
• AdvancedDataGrid multi column sorting, hierarchicaldata, grouped data, column grouping
• AdvancedDataGrid conditional formatting, summary rows, column spanning and selection
• OLAP interfaces and building an OLAP cube
• OLAPDataGrid

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Figure 1. Flex data visualization landscape

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