Managing Display Appearance (2.4)

Present your data and links with pride... 

Applies to version 2.4 only

Omniscope enables you to deliver interactive, data-rich, visual presentations rather than dull, complex spreadsheets and/or static, non-interactive presentation slides. Omniscope also offers extensive options for branding your file, displaying advertising, focusing the end users' navigation options, and changing the layout, themes and colouring to match your organisation's standards for internal and external documents.

Commands/options relating to most of the elements of the display of pages/tabs in a given file are found under the Main Toolbar Appearance  and Help menus. This page covers only two of the most commonly-used options; Branding and View restrictions. See Commands Reference 2-4 > Appearance for a complete overview of commands on the Appearance sub-menu.

Appearance > Branding

{Omniscope Professional & Enterprise only} The Branding sub-menu provides options to configure either of two informational pop-up screens presented on opening and closing a given file. It also provides the option to change the corner logo display from 'Visokio' to a logo of your own (with a link back to your own page), and to display banner advertising images and links in your downloadable Omniscope files.

There are two pop-up informational screens you can configure:

• Cover  screen opens (and closes) before any working displays or Report Page tabs.
• Back or closing screen displays when the file is closed, and is useful for reminders, acknowledgements and providing contact details relating to the file.

The Add Corner logo, Add Web Services menu logo, and Set publisher link options enable data publishers to further brand their files. The Banner advert sub-menu enables publishers to add advertising images and links to their files to fully integrate with the commercial aspects of their business. For more information, see Appearance Menu and Advertising Options.

Note: The Help page and banner advertising displays are currently the same for the working display and all the Report Pages in the file, rather than configurable for each Report Page. This may change in future versions. To edit the file specific Help Page, see Help > Create/Edit help page.

Configuring Opening and Closing Information Screens

Clicking on the option to configure a Cover and Back informational screens launches a Set Page dialog that accepts your inputs from you. The dialogs used to create the Cover and Back informational pages are both similar to the one shown below:

Note:  Both information screens support some aspects of HTML text formatting, such as <b>, <i> etc. Currently, informational screens behave differently to the file-specific Help Page, which does not require hard returns and can be re-sized directly in preview mode. 

Appearance > Views > {view restrictions}

For any given data set, one or more of Omniscope's 14 different views may not be needed to best depict the data set and support user interaction. It may be that the data does not contain any fields (columns) useful to plot against other fields in the Graph View. Some files could have so many different unique Category values in different fields that the Tree View becomes slow to open and use. Whether for these or other reasons relating to simplifying the file, it is possible to hide selected views from the users' View Chooser menus by unticking the view on the list displayed under Appearance > Views > {view restrictions}:

Managing Themes

In addition to logos/background images and font selection, all the colours associated with an file can be managed using the options available under Appearance > Themes. There is a library of  predefined Themes, and you also create your own combination of corporate colours and save the settings as your own named Theme which you can share with others. More on managing Themes.