Editing Statistics in the Layout
FlowJo has a sophisticated mechanism that allows you to create graphical and textual layouts which can both be edited to fit your particular circumstances, yet can also retain links to the workspace, such that statistics and graphs can be recalculated whenever their underlying data or analysis parameters change. The power of this approach does have something of a cost, in that the process of editing the statistics is somewhat more complex than it would be if the statistics were simply static text.
Drag any statistic from the workspace to the Layout Editor. Double click this statistic. You will see a dialog box containing a special purpose editor.
You will notice that some text in the upper window is outside of brackets and some is inside the brackets. The text outside of the brackets is the human readable description of the statistic. The part inside the brackets is a command that is able to direct FlowJo to derive the desired statistic.
If you try to edit the text you will see that the human readable portion is editable. Outside the brackets, you can make changes.
Click the Update Layout button to show your changes in the layout window.
Often you'll want to produce reports which reference some sample keyword information (such as Sample ID, Patient ID, etc.) in the layouts. This is can be accomplished by selecting the desired keyword with the Insert value for keyword button.
You will also find that typing the string inside angle brackets e.g.
It is actually possible to edit the FJML tags. The checkbox Edit FJML Directly, will change the editor such that editing the text inside of the brackets is allowed. We don't recommend this practice, as a minor typo can render the field meaningless.
You can drag more statistics from the workspace into this editor window and insert many keywords to make the statistic arbitrarily complex. More information on FJML.