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Quick BI:Workbook Overview

Last Updated:Jun 02, 2026

A workbook is a spreadsheet-style reporting tool in Quick BI for building complex, regulation-ready reports. If your team already works in Excel, workbooks let you apply those skills directly — connecting multiple data sources, structuring multi-level headers, and consolidating data from multiple sheets into a single summary view. Workbooks are only available in workspaces of Premium Edition and Professional Edition.

Feature overview

Workbooks support complex Chinese-style regulatory reports that go beyond standard dashboards. Supported report formats include multi-level headers, merged headers, multi-level floating, grouping, diagonal headers, and multiple table bodies.

Supported report types include but are not limited to:

  • Business detail tables

  • Grouped reports

  • Cross-tabulation reports

  • Master-detail reports

  • Multi-column reports

  • Query reports

  • Data entry reports

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Workbook interface

The workbook editor uses an interaction similar to Excel Online. Key capabilities include:

  • Online import and export of Excel files

  • Quick custom formula and function support

  • Connections to multiple data sources

  • Free-form table layout

  • Permission controls for editing, previewing, and exporting reports

The interface has three areas: ① toolbar, ② design area, and ③ data panel. image

  • Toolbar: Select the chart type and configure file, edit, format, data, view, and query controls.

  • Design area: Arrange and reference data in cells to build your report layout.

  • Data panel: Switch between datasets and select dimension and measure fields listed according to the system's preset to bind to your chart.

Limits

  • The workbook module is automatically available in Professional Edition.

  • For Premium Edition, the workbook module must be purchased separately.

Note

Starting from public cloud version 5.4.1, workbooks will no longer be specially adapted for IE browser. Thank you for your understanding and support.