Deployment Options

Many different deployment options are available 

This section deals with various options for deploying Omniscope files and exportable DataPlayer Flash .SWF files created in Omniscope as part of broad reporting solutions. Exporting universally-accessible Flash DataPlayer .SWF greatly increases the ultimate reach of Omniscope-based reporting solutions, since the free-standing DataPlayers can be embedded in both web pages and documents such as PowerPoint, Excel and Acrobat .PDF...with full interactivity. Omniscope files can be saved to shared folders or posted for download on intranet/extranet web pages accessible to others with either the free Viewer (.IOK files) or activated Omniscopes (Workgroup .IOM files) installed. Omniscope Online provides a Web Start zero-footprint temporary-cached, temporary-install solution for deploying files to those who lack install privileges. 

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Web Integration: Omniscope is a 'hybrid' desktop/web application, with internal browser windows (Web Views) and the ability to act as a universal web services local client. In web service client mode, Omniscope facilitates user interaction and input on the user desktop, then enables to user to submit their selections and input to configured remote web services. The HTML-formatted response from the remote server can be displayed in an adjacent Omniscope Web View or the users' default browsers. The response may also return other formats, including Omniscope files and Flash DataPlayers generated and e-mailed/displayed 'on demand'.

Publishing DataPlayer .SWFs: DataPlayers created and exported from Omniscope files are stand-alone Flash .SWF files that contain all the data, visualisations and interactive query devices in a single file. DataPlayers created in Omniscope can be posted and re-posted/overwritten to web pages just like any other .SWF ...as easy as posting a picture. Export options from the DataPlayer View of Omniscope include exporting the DataPlayer .SWF in an HTML wrapper for posting, or exporting as a standalone .SWF to overwrite the existing file of the same name already on the web server with a newer one containing refreshed data.

Outside browser option: Omniscope installations can be configured to open with a web browser view displaying a pre-defined web page containing lists of downloadable Omniscope files, embedded DataPlayer 'dashboards' and other elements. Users select from a menu of (Enterprise server-refreshed) files available for download just by clicking on the file links displayed in the opening Outside Browser view of Omniscope. 

Omniscope Online: Java Web Start is standard Java technology for deploying both the Omniscope application and data files to users without the free Viewer installed, and who lack install privileges on their machines. Please note that Omniscope online must run in a 'sandbox' imposed by the Java security model, and services provided in coinjunction with other installled applications will not be available.

Applet Limitations: This article provides more detail on why Java Web Start, and not Applets, provides the better results for no-installation deployments of Omniscope-based solutions.

Command Line Launch: Especially if you are running Linux, you may want to launch the Omniscope .JAR file directly from the command line (also Mac or Windows)

Web Server Configuration: Posting Omniscope files on web pages is generally the same as posting other common document file types, such as Acrobat .PDF, PowerPoint .PPT/.PPS etc. This article provides technical detail for webmasters.