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Pardon our dust as we build out our docs. Check back soon for the full walkthrough on your first FinFam View!
View Reference
Views are FinFam’s way to share your financial knowledge at scale. They let you build powerful, interactive web applications using nothing but a spreadsheet—think “spreadsheets as apps.”
Views combine the power of an informational blog post with an interactive financial calculator, offering users direct answers to real financial questions. In line with the emphasis on financial accuracy and trust, Views are built in spreadsheet format, canonically XLSX. This means you can build views in:
- Google Sheets
- Microsoft Excel
- Apple Numbers
- LibreOffice Calc
And more.
Why Views?
Open Source by Default: Published Views can be open-sourced, allowing financial models to be reviewable, forkable, and improvable by the community. Users can check the math, eliminating the black box feeling often associated with financial planning.
Subscribe and Upgrade: When users save a View to their planning space, they stay subscribed to the original. When you update your View, subscribers get notified and can upgrade with one click while preserving their personal values.
Scale Your Expertise: This workflow scales expert knowledge using interaction models proven by App Stores, GitHub, and Wikipedia.
What follows is a reference for the View format. For a step-by-step guide on how to create your first View, see Creating your first FinFam View.
View Structure
The View format supports sections to give your Views structure.
Other features include:
- Result fields
- Output fields
- Expert fields
- Defaults
- Static defaults
- Calculated defaults
- Space-based defaults
Check back later for full documentation on how to use these features.