The Table and Details views allow you to edit data. You can use these as inputs to your formulae. But your users will need to have licensed editions.

I'm looking to implement it for users who only have the viewer. Is this something that could be coming out in an upcoming version?

Alternatively, could there be a functionality where you can position devices in other places on the screen than just the sidebar? It'd be useful if there was the ability to embed devices into a content view or some other view type.

I've reclassified this as an Idea - specifically, allowing you to edit cells in the viewer, so you can change more complex formula inputs.

Please post a separate Idea for the other item - "floating devices".

As one of the highest voted ideas, we need more information on what this is for and how it needs to work.

A separate highly-voted post, "floating devices", covers putting filters (and implicitly variables) anywhere in the window, rather than only in the sidebars. You will be able to have multiple "Filters" views, and each will contain 1 or more devices (filters/variables).

I think that this will go a long way to answering the above requests. Alex Howard, your firm is behind all of these votes - could you please clarify what else is needed, under what circumstances, and how important this is to you all?

Along this Idea we would like to be available that users (free-viewer) can include their own notes or comments, for example using a Content view.

This is already possible in the viewer providing the IOK file was created by a ServerPlus edition. We call this "empowering"; the ServerPlus IOK files "empower" the free viewer to do various things, including edit content view and save (providing file isn't owner-locked).

See (somewhat) related topics here:

http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1626/integration-manual-input-of-data-via-omniscopes

http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1745/architecture-editing-data-in-htmls

Is it possible in the version 2.9 that (free-viewer) can edit cells like in details and table views for licensed users?

At the current moment free Viewers regardless of whether they are opening an empowered file or not, they will not be able to change cells in either the Details or Table view.

Natascha - Your IOK files are being refreshed and delivered via a Server license, so recipients using free Viewers can edit Content View text to add/edit their comments and save/forward...just as they would do in PowerPoint. However, changing values in the IOK file's data set is NOT enabled in the free Viewer, for this they would need a Desktop...but also a process for centralising changes...

Any corrections or enrichments made in a local free Viewer would not only need to be saved (which a Viewer cannot do) but ALSO passed back to the centre ...otherwise every IOK file in distribution ends up with different data...and you lose Master Data Management (MDM) and live refresh from the centre.

You CAN use free Viewers to gather corrections/enrichments to the data, but this must be done using web page data submission forms in the Web View, or via web services written to take the incoming data changes submitted from free Viewers, apply internal validation rules, and only then write-back the (approved) changes to source repositories.

More information on these ideas is here:

http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/comment/7327/#Comment_7327