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Web view: 32 & 64 bit Windows and Mac (2.7+) plus Zoom (2.8+)

antonio — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:56:19 -0500

From version 2.7 Alpha b169, the new Omniscope Web view is available on both 32 and 64-bit Windows, and Mac. The new Web view replaces the old one. It has the same features except for the "Shrink" function that we aim to develop in a different way.

Through the Tools menu, 4 features have been added:

Disable scrollbars : If enabled, the Web view will try to disable the embedded browser scrollbars when the web page has been completely loaded. The feature is not enabled by default.
Show statusbar : If enabled, the Web view will show the browser status bar. Not enabled by default.
Follow Highlight/Selection : If disabled, when the Web view is in Link or Web Service mode, it will not navigate to a different link/webservice ignoring the current highlight/selection. Enabled by default.
Provide 'omniscope' global object to scripts : If enabled, the WebView will pass the 'omniscope' global object to the scripts after the webpage has been loaded. Not enabled by default.
Further information

We will use this discussion to post updates on the status and features of the WebView.

If you have feedback, please start a new discussion.

Map View: Importing Overlays/Map Boundaries

Daniel_Lam — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:18:34 -0500

I have a request for incorporating interactive/defined boundaries lines for towns and cities in the map view.

The boundaries I am looking for are from the NUTS regional classifications in Europe such as the ones given here:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco/geodata/reference by selecting the "Administrative units/Statistical units"

The idea is to be able to use these map boundaries in conjunction with heat mapping so that defined areas can be coloured for a set of numerical variables.

An Example I would like to be able to emulate:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/5/20/1242833437919/heat_map460.jpg

Map View: Geometric buffer operation (2.8+)

steve — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:23:26 -0400

Omniscope 2.8 Beta introduces the Geometric Buffer operation in DataManager.

Use this to transform geographic data imported typically from KML files or ESRI Shapefiles.

It includes the ability to convert point data such as building locations into circular areas representing a specified distance from that location (stored as a series of point records with a shared ID). You might use this to find the areas representing 5km from tube/subway stations, for example.

It also allows you to convert area (polygon) or line (polyline) data such as coastlines or zip code boundaries by enlarging outwards, subtracting inwards, or creating a "channel" either/both sides of the outline, according to a specified distance. You might use this to find the area representing 20 miles from the coast, for example.

The resulting geographic "areas" can be used as an overlay in the Map view.

Please be aware that buffering can multiply the volume of data by several 100 times, since each point can introduce many points to describe the area around the point/line. Also note that while point buffering is true to the Earth's shape, line/area buffering is done in Euclidean space, so is only accurate at the local level and becomes completely inaccurate when you have areas/lines covering a large proportion of the world. Only supports WGS84 coordinates.

Sources: Dropbox/GoogleDrive support (2.8+).

chris — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:17:38 -0400

In Omniscope 2.8 we have added support for DropBox and GoogleDrive.

In the Omniscope file menu you can open (and subsequently save) a DropBox/GoogleDrive file directly by selecting "File > Open online file".

In DataManager, DropBox and GoogleDrive is supported in both the "Data file" source block and the "Data file" publisher block. You can also add a dropbox folder to your DataManager bookmarks by clicking the "Add" button in the bookmarks toolbar and selecting "Folder of files".

DataManager: "Data file" output (2.8+)

chris — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:56:32 -0400

In Omniscope 2.8 we have combined the "File", "URL" and "Publish on visokio.com" output blocks into a single "Data file output" block. When you open this block you are given the option to specify whether you want to publish to a file, URL or to publish on visokio.com.

Formula Editor improvements and performance analytics (2.8+)

steve — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:09:49 -0400

Omniscope 2.8 includes powerful new tools to help you work with complex or slow-running formulae.

To get started, open a file with a complex formula, hit Ctrl+F to open Manage Fields, find the blue formula and choose Edit > Edit formula.

Reformat and simplify

These were covered in an earlier post:
http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1849/formulae-performance-and-usability-improvements-2.8-/p1
To sum up, Reformat allows you to space out and indent your formula into a clean logical hierarchy, and Simplify makes your formula simpler through use of SUBSET and INTERSECT rather than older SUBSETn functions.

Testing and performance analytics

The Test button allows you to perform a test-run, calculating your formula for every record in your data. This has two primary uses:

It allows you to find and fix errors which only occur with particular input data - such as division by zero. If an error occurs, you'll find yourself looking at that record and its error in the editor.
It allows you to identify performance bottlenecks if your formula is under-performing.

After the test run has finished, a side panel will pop-in to the right of the formula editor. (You can resize the formula editor window if needed).

This shows a tree view of your formula. For each tree node, it shows the average time per evaluation, number of evaluations, and total time spent in that node for all records.

You can verify if your formula is being evaluated as you expect, and can find bottlenecks and use this information to consider more efficient formula structures.

New: Linux server version (2.8+)

steve — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:41:29 -0400

After much demand, Omniscope 2.8 is now available for Linux servers.

We are initially supporting 64-bit Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and later, and the 64-bit Amazon EC2 AMI.

We are currently not supporting Omniscope Viewer/Desktop nor the Omniscope Server desktop interface. We are only supporting use on systems without a graphical environment, where Omniscope Server runs as a "headless" service. So, for now, Scheduler Task Lists must be configured on another system using a Server+ Edition spare key and the XML Task List configuration files either transferred over to the Linux box or saved in a shared folders.

As per other systems, a license activation key will be required. In this case the key is entered using commands entered into a terminal.

Installation, licensing and service configuration instructions:

http://www.visokio.com/kb/linux-installs

Download:

http://www.visokio.com/download/madagascar?platform=linux

Scheduler: Task List admin improvements (2.8+)

steve — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:48:38 -0400

From 2.8 b839, the Server/Scheduler Task List UI will include an "Enlarge" button which toggles between extra-large and normal Task List display size. This allows you to see longer task names and more tasks at once.

Filtering: Replicated joint query devices (2.8+)

mustafa — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:05:27 -0400

Starting from 2.8 we have added the ability to replicate the following devices by clicking the plus (+) button in the Devices visibility picker which is accessible from the Devices button on the Sidebar toolbar, or from the Tools > Devices tab.

Figure 1: Showing duplicated Custom and Search All devices (see attached demo.iok)

Devices which can be replicated:

Search All
Custom search
Saved queries
Yes/No fields

Replicated devices work in the same way as if you had the same query device making a different query. However, both queries are combined together using the AND operator. They provide the same functionality as the original filter device box i.e. you can rename, expand/collapse.

Replicated query/filter devices execute joint queries. For example, if you create two "Search All" devices, one renamed to "Search All 2", and you search for "Alpha" in one device and "Beta" in the other device, then Omniscope will search for data which has both Alpha and Beta anywhere within the same record.

One example of how you might use this is to group different sets of Saved Queries in order to be able to create custom filter devices.

Another example is creating multiple Custom Search devices, one searching a set of address-related fields, another searching a set of name-related fields.

Layout: Sub-tabs (2.8+)

mustafa — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:06:18 -0400

We have now added ability to create multiple-level tabs (available from 2.8 b793 onwards), in response to requests on the following thread (Layout - Sub Tab Groupings?).

Figure 1: Showing use of Sub-tabs - Group 1, 2 and 3 are group tabs containing sub-tabs (see attached demo.iok)

You can manage tabs by clicking on "Manage tabs" from the Tab menu, on the main toolbar - see first attached image.

Manage tabs

The editor is a drag and drop editor and allows multi-selection. Multi-selection enabled by holding down Ctrl key and clicking nodes.

Group tab

Allows you to group multiple tabs under a single tab. A group tab is shown just like a normal tab.
When group tab is open, a new sub-tab bar will be shown, showing a list of all sub-tabs defined under the main tab (see attached multi-level-group-2.png) with the first tab automatically selected. Moving to Group tab will always open the first tab. Depending on the customer feedback, we might add in future the ability to preserve last selected tab.

Note: Sub-tabs are only visible when the parent (Group) tab is active. For example, if you have two 'normal tabs' and one group tab, containing three sub-tabs, the 'children tabs' of the group tab will become visible only when you navigate to the "Group" tab. It is not possible to create empty group tabs, which do not have sub-tabs.

You can add group tabs by clicking on "Add group tab" from the "Manage tabs" editor.

Blank tab

Clicking "Add blank tab" adds a blank tab in the selected position.

Deleted selected

Allows you to select or multi-select and delete tabs.

Other features

Tab device box was changed to reflect the hierarchical layout.
You can change order of tabs by either moving tabs around on the tab bar or through "Manage tabs".
You can rename tabs by double-clicking Tab in Tab bar, or through Manage tabs by right-clicking or double-clicking a tab.
Clicking on the "+" sign on the tab bar adds a new tab at the same hierarchy level as the selected Tab bar.
There is no limit on how many levels of hierarchy you can have.
You can also hide individual level tab bar from Toolbars > Tab bar > Each tab bar visibility menu.
The next and previous tab buttons go navigate through the logical hierarchy of tabs. For example, if you have four tabs with the second tab being a group tab containing three children. Clicking next on the first tab will take you to the first tab of Group tab, clicking next will take you to the next sub-tab etc. Clicking next on the last sub-tab will take you to the next tab following the main grouped tab and so on.

Example

Layout: Sub Tab Groupings?

TomW — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:11:56 -0500

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible for Omniscope presentations to have sub tabs in them?

By this I mean that when I click on the current tab structure, below that a further set of options are available, e.g. I have one tab that is Buzz and below that I am then given the options of Facebook, Twitter, General etc. When you click on any of these sub-tabs a new page appears with this information in rather than having to click on the device bar. These sub tabs would change depending on the top tab you select.

Is this possible or is there a way that something similar can be done with Macro type set up? i.e. can I put a line of queries along the top of the tab?

Thanks

Layout: Floating Filter Devices (2.8+)

alexhoward — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:26:35 -0400

Steve, per your instruction, here is a new thread for floating devices. It would be great to be able to customize the position of devices on the screen. Or, to be able to embed them within views. This would make manipulating the views much easier than scrolling through many devices on the sidebar.

Devices View - floating filters (2.8+)

mustafa — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:05:06 -0400

Overview

Starting from 2.8 we have added a new view called "Devices". This View has been added as many of you would like to see this available in Omniscope as discussed here (Floating filter devices).

Figure 1: Showing 3 different Devices view each showing use of different style and layout (see attached demo.iok).

The View allows you to show any number filter device which was previously shown only sidebars (Right/Left). This enables you to spread your devices anywhere on the tab rather than having them appear only in Right/Left sidebar. There is no limitation on how many Devices view you can add. You can think of Devices view as unlimited sidebars in form a View which can be places anywhere on the tab.

Devices view is just like a normal view in terms of normal View functionality i.e. you can drag and drop them to different places around just like any other view in Omniscope. The difference is that instead of showing you something about your data (i.e. Graph), it shows devices.

Devices view works in the same way as the sidebars in the sense that a Device can only appear once throughout the tab. There are number layout/styling options available allowing you to customise the View which are described below.

Features

This section describes a list of features available for the view.

Expand and Collapse (All)

You can expand and collapse all the Devices using the Expand/Collapse all button located on the Toolbar.

Layout

There are number of layout options available which allow you to choose how you would like the devices to be be laid out.

Mode: Defines how the devices should laid out within the view.
Column count: Defines the maximum number of columns to create after which the devices will wrap to next line.
Device width: Controls minimum device width when trying to work out how much space to allocate to each device.

Spacing

Margin: Controls the margin around all the devices as a whole.
Between column: Controls the spacing between each column in terms of layout.
Between rows: Controls the spacing between each row in terms of layout.
Fill height: If ticked, all devices height will be adjusted so that all vertical space is filled.
Fill width: If ticked, all devices width will be adjusted so that all horizontal space is filled.

Styling

Allows you to override global style settings for all devices inside the View. You can do this by clicking the "Edit" button next to Devices style.

Other options

All other options which you can see in the sidebar Tools menu are located in View > Tools > Other tab.

Formulae: Normal Distribution functions added

bfromson1 — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:50:02 -0400

Any chance of adding the equivalents of Excel NORMSDIST and NORMSINV to the available mathematical operators? We are looking to run capital calculations in a model and these are required.

Thanks

SUBSET Function formulae - new operators (2.8+)

steve — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:25:28 -0400

Newly introduced, the optional 3rd "operator" argument of SUBSET() can now accept text-specific operators (in addition to the implicit default "=" and other existing numerical operators such as ">="):

"contains"
"does-not-contain"
"ends-with"
"starts-with"

For example, this identifies all people whose surname begins "Mac":

SUBSET([Surname], "Mac", "starts-with")

Formulae: SOUNDEX and LEVENSHTEIN fuzzy-matching functions (2.8+)

steve — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:24:09 -0400

New functions from 2.8 b704:

SOUNDEX
Converts a word into its American Soundex phonetic code (A-Z non-accented characters only).

LEVENSHTEIN
Evaluates the edit distance between two text values.

Performance: 2.8 Alpha running out of memory?

Alexander — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:04:10 -0400

Hi all - Yesterday we installed 2.8 on our server (20GB RAM). We are used to process big data files (up to 60 million rows) whithout any problem in 2.7. When using 2.8 even files with 1,3 million rows are not loaded into DataManager as Omniscope is running out of memory. In Windows Task Manager, we see that that Omniscope instance is not using more than 1 GB of RAM.

My first idea was that this had to do with maximum settings in "instal.properties" or "wrapper.config". After enabling and adjusting the maximum memory values in these 2 files, the performance of 2.8 did not increase.

Please advise us on what to do? Thanks in advance!

Regards, Alexander

Map View: Connecting salespeople and customers?

grahamb — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:27:48 -0400

I have two files.
1. Salespeople with IDs and lat/long coordinates
2. Customers with Name, Salesperson ID and lat. long. coordinates

I want plot both customers and sales people locations on the same map, then draw a star map where lines are drawn between each customer and their allocated sales rep...How do I do this please?

I started by loading both files and merging on the ID. This created a file with two sets of latitude longitudes but I can only select one pair of coordinate columns for mapping?. So right now I either get a map with sales reps, or one with customers, depending on which coordinate fields I point the Map View to.

I presume that I should perhaps keep files separate but if so, is their a way to select these from the DataManager and apply to layers in some way. Or how should I do this please? Thanks

Scheduler: Ordering Task Lists-version 2.8

cgamolo — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:25:25 -0500

We're currently sharing one Scheduler Task List across multiple teams and our Task List is expanding. Is there any way to sort the tasks in alphabetical order? We have a fairly strict naming convention for the tasks and it would be nice to see all of the tasks in order.

Connector: Flashtalking (2.8+)

chris — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:49:40 -0400

We have added a Flashtalking Connector in Omniscope 2.8. Flashtalking is Europe's largest independent provider of innovative Rich Media & Video Ad Serving. For more information see:
http://www.flashtalking.com/

The Flashtalking connector allows you to select one or more campaigns, a date range, report type (daily, summary or transaction) and report depth (campaign, publisher, placement creative or version). At the moment the Connector returns ALL fields.

Please let us know if you have any questions. If you would like a demonstration of this connector please contact supportATvisokio.com.

Option to always maintain upper/lower case (2.8+)

alec_webliquid — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:56:47 -0400

Hi all, just wondering if anyone can tell me how to disable automatic Upper/Lower case re-formatting for field names? When I manually enter a field name like 'CTR', I want it to stay that way instead of automatically changing to 'Ctr'.

Incidentally Visokio, this happens even when 'Preserve upper/lower case of field name' is selected in the Manage Fields menu. Cheers

Tag View: visualising word clouds (2.8+)

chris — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:32:09 -0500

In Omniscope 2.8 you should now see the "Tag view" has now been promoted to the main list of views.

The Tag view allows you to create a tag cloud. It provides a variety of layout and style options to allow you to customise your cloud.

To use the Tag view, firstly select the "Fields" dropdown and pick a text field. Once you have selected the text field you should decide how Omniscope will create the tags. You can choose from "Unique values", "Words" or "Word groups".

Click on the "Style" dropdown in the main toolbar to customise your tag cloud. You can specify the number of tags displayed on screen, the size range and the type of layout.

You can specify the size/colour/fade applied to each tag by selecting an option from the associated drop-down on the main toolbar.

I've attached a couple of screenshots of the Tag view to give you an idea of the type of visualisations possible. Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions for improvements.

Content View: Additional command links (2.8+)

michael — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:19:10 -0500

We added two new command links to the Content View: "Reset variables" and "Calculate automatically".
You can find them in the next nightly release 2.8-alpha b557.

See also initial forum post:
http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1997/idea-content-view-expanded-command-link-optionss/p1

Map View: Overlays - Importing ESRI shapefiles?

stein — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:04:48 -0400

Will it be possible to import ESRI Shape files into Omniscope in near future?

Keyboard shortcuts: skip re-calculate all (2.8+)

Alfonso — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:39:06 -0500

I would add some ideas about usability for users with 'heavy' models like our model.

In these models, the user has to interact frequently with the User Interface, changing variables and inserting values on grids or dataView. As the performance sometimes isn't enough fast to drive it with automatic calculi he has to disable and enable re-calculation of the formulas and refresh the calculi. However, currently access to this functionality from the menu is not 'user friendly':

Data>Formula>Calulate automatically. (enable/disable automatic calculi).
Data>Formula>Recalculate all (CTRL+SHIFT + R) (force all calculi).

My suggestion is to give this enable/disable or 'skip' functionality a Keyboard shortcut combination such as as (CRTL+ SHIFT +S ) for saving a file, for example.

This way, the user can select between two modes, either act and wait for all the calculi process with the time involved, using shortcut like (CTRL+SHIFT+R) , or wait only a few time to see the results of his action. We need it but I think is will also be useful for other people and projects.

Web Start: Now supports Web Views (2.8+)

antonio — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:45:18 -0400

Available from version 2.8 b268, Omniscope Web Start has been updated to fully support the Web view in all the main OS platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix)

Using the Omniscope Online customisation page, users can decide whether to include a fully working Web view (through the "Support full Web view" option).

Note that if the option is ticked, the total size of the download will increase, due to the weight of the libraries used to provide the native browser integration.

Pivot View: Version 2.8 - values not displaying?

bfromson1 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:57:33 -0500

My pivot tables have lost their fonts?

I set up a pivot table and the table entries all appear blank. Hover over a cell and the value is displayed, but the table itself appears to be blank. Have I inadvertently set a white font on white background or has something else happened?

Thanks

Workflow: Navigating by Tab Links?

shaji_o — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:23:33 -0400

Within DataExplorer to navigate from one tab to the next you need to select the tab at the top of the page. Are you able to navigate by clicking on a view? For example you click on a view on one tab and are taken to a different tab

Sources: Improved XML data import (2.8+)

richard — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:15:39 -0400

As of build 2.8-alpha b367, you can now import data from XML files using your own point-and-click custom definition to convert the (tabular) XML data into a tabular dataset.

1. Add in an XML file using the 'Data file' source and choose 'Definition' as the transform type
2. Edit the definition and using the table, select the tags/attributes to import into the dataset.
3. Choose the tag/attribute ('Record item') which will identify dataset records in the XML data

Additional options include the default labelling format for the dataset fields and previews of the XML and dataset.

Performance: Faster aggregation (2.8+)

steve — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:31:53 -0400

From tonight's release of 2.8, the aggregation engine in Omniscope has been much improved.

If you are using multi-field aggregations in your views or your data models, these aggregations will be performed significantly faster.