Managing Display Appearance

Present your data and links with pride... 

Deliver interactive, data-rich, visual reports in Omniscope rather than dull, complex spreadsheets or static, presentation slides. Omniscope offers extensive options for branding your file, displaying advertising, focusing the end users' navigation options, and changing the layout, theme and colouring to match your organisation's standards for internal and external documents.

Commands affecting the display of a given file are found in the Main Toolbar Appearance menu. In this section, we will introduce only two of the most commonly-used sets of options; Branding and Views. The Appearance menu is fully documented in the Main Toolbar Appearance Menu commands section.

Appearance > Branding

{Omniscope Professional & Enterprise only} The Branding sub-menu provides options to configure either of two informational pop-up pages 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 informational pages you can configure:

• The Cover page opens (and closes) before any working displays or Report Pages.
• The Back page 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 > Edit help page.

Configuring Information Pages

Clicking on the option to configure a Cover and Back informational page launches a Set Page dialog that accepts 5 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 pages support some aspects of HTML text formatting, such as <b>, <i> etc.

Suggestion:  Use 'hard' returns to wrap your text for readability. Click 'Preview appearance' and then re-size the window by introducing hard returns to define the size and shape of information page. Click 'Submit' and the size, shape and text-wrapping of the information page will be preserved.

Note: Informational pages behave differently to the Help Page, which does not require hard returns and can be re-sized directly in preview mode. 

Appearance > Views

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:

Look and Feel and 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 > Look and Feel. There is a library of pre-configured Themes you can test from Appearance >Themes. You can also create your own combination of corporate colours and save them as your own named Theme. More on managing Themes.

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For a more complete discussion of all the available Appearance menu commands, see the Main Toolbar Appearance Menu commands.

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