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by bigger_cheese 809 days ago
I Use SAS reports in my job pretty heavily I'm keen to find alternatives - this looks pretty promising.

One thing in particular I'm interested in but could not see an example for is if this will let you insert "break lines" i.e. for displaying sub totals and similar.

For example based on the demo, which shows names and addresses from census data it might be nice to be able to break at each change in postcode and display some summary data like a count of people found at that postcode or an average age (based on the DOB) living at that postcode or similar.

Otherwise conditional formatting is another pain point either using rules i.e. if value in column B is greater than a specified threshold make the entire row bold. Or automatically creating a color gradient to highlight the cells ala Excel.

For bonus points management types like things like red and green traffic lights (or down/up arrows) you can display next to kpi data in a table It's a gimmick but wins you points.