Columns

This page describes how to define and control the columns in you json payload.

You have the ability to control columns data and which are selected by default when the project is loaded in PPTX Builder. By default, the first column is selected in the PPTX Builder platform.

The columns section in the payload is defined as an Array. All parent columns have to have at least 1 item (sub-column).

Column fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
text	String	true	The name for the parent column.
items	Array	true	An Array containing the sub columns.
selected	Boolean	false	This value defines if the column is selected by default. (You need to set the selected flag for all sub-columns)

Items array

Name	Type	Required	Description
text	String	true	The name of the sub-column.
base	Float	true	The base value for this column.
data	Array	true	The data values for each row. This should reflect the same order as the Array of rows defined in the chart settings.
selected	Boolean	false	This value defines if the sub-column is selected by default.

Example in JSON

In this example we have can see how to selected the second parent column by default.

{
  "columns": [{
    "text": "Total",
    "items": [{
      "text": "Total",
      "base": 1949.0,
      "data": [106.0, 105.0, 26.0, 43.0, 55.0, 136.0]
    }],
  }, {
    "text": "ITS WITH SKY TV",
    "items": [{
        "text": "ITS 1-3",
        "base": 175.0,
        "data": [0, 105.0, 26.0, 43.0, 0, 0],
        "selected": true
      },
      {
        "text": "ITS 6-10",
        "base": 1476.0,
        "data": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
        "selected": true
      }
    ],
    "selected": true
  }]
}