Using Omniscope Views 14 different ways to explore your data...

Omniscope currently offers 12 different views (version 2.4 offers 14) to help you and recipients of your files analyse and illustrate the messages in your data. Omniscope views offer much more than just data visualisation/charting. Most views are complete data navigation environments enabling browsing, aggregation, analysis, filtering and drill-down to details. Exceptions are the Web View, which opens one or more browser windows showing linked web pages, the DataPlayer View (DataPlayer &  Enterprise Edition only) and the the highly-configurable Details View, which shows non-hidden values for each single record, together with images and buttons/links connecting to related web pages and services.

Adding Views with the View Chooser

The View Chooser below appears whenever you click Add View from the Main Toolbar, or when you click on a view icon to change an open window from one view to another:

For more on using each of the views, and the options available on their respective View Toolbar > View tools menus, see the Views Reference page, or click on the view names below to go directly to the discussion of individual views:

For documentation of the View Toolbar > View Tools commands common to all views, see the next section: View Tools commands

Switching/Closing Views

On the left of each View Toolbar is the View tab/drop-down which identifies the view currently selected. Clicking this tab/drop-down reveals the View Chooser, (shown above) from which you can change view and/or (if you click Show data universes option bottom right) you can change the data universe shown in the view.

By default, new views will open with a green icon, meaning you're looking at all the records currently in the IN universe. You can change the universe by ticking a different universe box in the expanded View Chooser shown above. More on Data Universes

View Toolbars

Each View has a View Toolbar, which contains options and features applicable to that View, including a View Chooser and a View tools tab/drop-down menu. View Toolbars open and close at the top of each view window. Like all view windows, View Toolbars are always below the Main Toolbar, whose commands apply to all open views.

View Toolbars vary in appearance, since each View features different controls on the toolbar, but they typically look like this:

All Views in Omniscope have their own View Toolbar, containing (from left) a Switch View tab/drop-down that allows the user to change that window to another View, a View tools drop-down menu, and various different view control buttons and drop-down or side-opening menus for changing the configuration options specific to each view. The Bar View is an exception, because so many configuration options are available that a pull-out Options tab on the right side of the view contains most of the options.

On the right-most end of all View Toolbars is the Close View icon, shown as a black [X]. Click this icon to close the view. You can always bring closed views (or new, additional views) back by clicking Add view on the Main Toolbar.

Aggregation menu (new in 2.4)  

Beginning with version 2.4, many Views (not just the Table View) will include an Aggregation drop-down menu, used to define aggregated views of the data, together with the function to be applied (if any) when aggregating each field (column).  Aggregation differs from the Grouping options available in the Table View, in the sense that the end user is not meant to 'unroll' or 'drill down' the defined aggregation to the lower level of granularity.  In some cases, user-interactive Grouping can be used in addition to Aggregation.  For example, a file with each row defined as an observation for a given day can be aggregated by week, then grouped by month and year.  In the resulting Table View, and end user would be able to unroll the groupings down to weeks, but to see the maximum granularity daily data , they would have to remove the Aggregation settings.

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