Filtering: Applying Sidebar filters settings to all tabs?

May 31, 2012 4:28AM

I am trying to deliver a version of an IOK report for people with the Omniscope Viewer. People are supposed to set filters in the right sidebar on the first tab and, since the report has about 10 tabs, they should be also apply those filters to all subsequent tabs.

Unfortunately, the viewer does not offer the little wrench icon which has the "apply to all tabs" option?

Is there another way to solve this? A quick reply would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!

paola · May 31, 2012 5:01AM

Hi Alex, you need to create duplicates of your tabs by clicking on the arrow next to the tab name>New>Copy of current tab (advanced)
In the Create new tab window - please untick Filter states and Variable states.
Copies of your tabs will appear in italics, and you can now delete the original tabs.
This setting should enable your free Viewers to apply same filter to all tabs...

May 31, 2012 5:52AM

Hi Paola,

thank you so much, this works exactly as wanted!

One quick addition: If you leave non-advanced tabs in your report, selecting them will cancel out all filters you made for the advanced tabs. We can work around this, but it might be interesting for others to know.

steve · May 31, 2012 6:03AM

Yes, you need to be aware of this.

Also see this Idea about "sub tabs":
http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1149/sub-tab/p1

Conceivably you could have a tab group which has shared filter settings across all child tabs, persistent after switching to another tab group and back.

Also suggests workarounds using Content Views to design your own tab menus.

Welcome!

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