---
title: "Nexel Block settings"
slug: "nexel-block-settings"
description: "Nexel merges spreadsheet flexibility with powerful multidimensional data views, offering robust formulas for advanced calculations and reporting."
tags: ["Data View", "Developer", "Layout Editor", "Planner"]
updated: 2026-08-19T09:13:50Z
published: 2026-08-19T09:13:50Z
canonical: "help.board.com/nexel-block-settings"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Nexel Block settings

Nexel combines the flexibility and the versatility of a spreadsheet-like application with the power and robustness of the multidimensional Object, the Data View. It offers a wide library of formulas embedded in the reporting layer to provide additional calculation capabilities on columns, ranges of cells, and even single cells.

> [!NOTE]
> Nexel is not supported by the Flex Grid Object.

Nexel formulas are equations that can perform calculations, return information, manipulate cell content, test conditions, and more. Formulas always start with an equal sign (=) and are supported by Data Blocks containing:

- A Cube
- An algorithm
- Entities and Relationships

> [!NOTE]
> The result of a Nexel Formula overlaps any value generated by a Layout definition.

## Enable Nexel in Block settings

Under the "Nexel" subpage in the Block settings panel, it is possible to enable and configure the NEXEL layer for the selected Block. When enabled, it is also possible to define how the formula will be propagated to the cells of the Block.

Two options are available:

- **Deepest Entity formula (default)**. Each cell of the Block can have a different formula.
- **Single formula**. The formula is the same for all cells of the Block.

Once enabled, the [Nexel configuration](/v15/docs/nexel-formula-editor) is done from the sliding Object toolbar of the Data View as seen in the images below:

![contents/assets/images/nexel panel.png](https://cdn.document360.io/8d6f1ae8-0cac-4d0d-a208-6245b83df94a/Images/Documentation/about-data-block-settings-image-g6b7f0fi.png)

![contents/assets/images/nexel.in.play.png](https://cdn.document360.io/8d6f1ae8-0cac-4d0d-a208-6245b83df94a/Images/Documentation/about-data-block-settings-image-59y2leom.png)