View Toolbar Commands

This section covers the View Toolbar commands which are common to all views. Documentation for view-specific commands for each view can be accessed from the Views Reference section.

Commands common to all View Toolbars

The Show details, Slide show, Add to basket and [X] Close view buttons at the far right end are present on all View Toolbars (except for the Details View, which only shows the details for a single record).

At the far right of each View Toolbar are three icons which are common to all views:

Show Details- This button, next to right-most in all View Toolbars, displays a pop-up table view (with the same settings as the Table View) of all records currently visible in the view. If you have made an active selection before clicking one of these buttons, you will be asked if you want to display only the selected records. The first column in the pop-up table view will have underlined values, which are links to the individual records. Click on the underlined record to display that record in a Details window. Alternatively, double-click the row number ("row header") to see the details for that record. For more detail, see Viewing Details.

Slide show- this button is used to launch an image slideshow which cycles through the records. Record cycling is also discussed in Viewing Details.

Add to basket- This icon/button, right-most in all View Toolbars, allows you to add chosen records to the gold-coloured Basket universe, which marks records for future retrieval, regardless of subsequent filtering and resets. The contents of the Basket and its record count are always available from the Basket button in the main Omniscope Toolbar. More on Using the Basket...

[X] Close View- clicking on this icon will close the view. You can return to the view at any time using the Add View command from the Main Toolbar

The View Tools drop-down menu is present on all View Toolbars, but most of the commands on this menu differ by view.  

View Toolbar > View Tools- commands common to all views

This discussion of the View Toolbar > View tools drop-down menu covers only those commands common to all or most views.  Most of the commands under View Tools are specific to each view.  These commands are discussed in the sections on each view, accessible for the links on the Views Reference page.

The bottom-most section of commands in the View Tools drop-down menu is the same for all views:

Add background image- see discussion below

Export this view's data- takes you to the Export Data wizard (also accessible from the File > Export Main Toolbar menu). Opening the Export Data wizard using the View Toolbar/View Tools/Export this view's data command pre-selects the data universe of the current view as the subset of data to be exported. If using the Table or Chart View, the fields will also be pre-selected. If using other views, all fields will be pre-selected for export. The Export Data Wizard allows you to add or remove fields and records from the file to be exported, and to decide which export file format to use, either .IOK or some other file type (.CSV or Excel .XLS for spreadsheets, or XML for other applications). For more information, see the Export Files dialog.

Detach window- Used to move a view to its own separate display, useful for very large/dual monitor configurations

Capture view- provides 3 options for capturing the visible aspects of the view:

• As new report page- this option creates a new Report Page in the Omniscope file containing the view as it currently appears
• Save as image- places all visible aspects of the view into a .JPG image file you can save, (or save to your clipboard) ready for pasting into any image-capable application such as PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Photoshop, etc. To paste into PowerPoint, for example, click Save as image then switch to PowerPoint and right-click in the location you want to put the view image. Select Paste from the PowerPoint context menu and your Omniscope view will appear on top of the PowerPoint slide.
• Copy image to clipboard- places all visible aspects of the view in a .JPG image in your clipboard, ready for pasting into any image-capable application.
• Print- launches the Print Options menu for managing printing the visible aspects of the view. For more information see Print Options

Show view title- this option reveals an editable text title space for each view

Show view toolbar- this option determines whether the View Toolbar is revealed or hidden. In Report Pages, for example, it is often desirable to hide the View Toolbar if users do not need to alter the view settings in a Report Page.

Reset all settings for this {view name} view- allows you to reinstate the default settings for the view if you have changed the row heights, field order, etc.

Apply these settings to all {view name} views- extends the settings you have configured for the view to all other views of the same kind. For example, if you have set a particular column order for a Table View, this command copies the settings to all other Table Views you have configured thus far. If you have configured Table Views in Report Pages, you will be asked if you want to change those settings as well.

Add Background Image

The Pie, Bar, Graph, Portal and Details View Toolbar menus also contain the option to specify an image to be shown as a background to the view.

Image files such as logos, etc. of any size in .JPG or GIF format can be added as background, sized to fit using the Crop, Letterbox or Stretch options, then faded to create an unobtrusive backdrop for selected views. For more on working with background images, see the section on the Page Menu.

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