Resources

The links below will take you to learning resources, such as tutorials and user guides, plus useful downloads (maps, merge files, image sets, etc.), information on web services & connectors to remote data, and graphics available for display.

Tutorials & User Guides

Tutorials- numerous chapterised narrated screencast tutorials are available, divided into chapters, with audio narration. Some of the most generally useful screencasts are featured below:

Full screencast-using Omniscope: - over two hours of Flash video in chapters

Reports in 5 minutes: - from raw data and image folder to final report in 5 minutes.

User Guide- an extensive searchable and printable chapterised User Guide provides both overview chapters and a comprehensive reference to all commands.

Knowledge Base- we maintain an online repository of articles on technical issues, solutions, work-arounds and best practise that we call the Knowledge Base. We welcome your comments and input (and so do all the other users trying the same things you are).

Functions Guide- like spreadsheets, Visokio applications come with an extensive menu of functions for defining new columns of values based on the values in existing columns. There are also additional powerful, multi-column functions specific to Omniscope. These specialised Visokio DATASET functions are documented here.

Useful Downloads & Services

Maps library

All editions of Omniscope include a multi-layer vector world maps (Mercator projection). We also provide free maps for every country in the world, as well as a growing number of city maps. If you use our maps to create a file, then send the file to others, the maps will be downloaded to the recipients of your file automatically, assuming they are online.

• We maintain a library of free maps, by countries, cities and regions.
• To find or offer specialised maps for use with Visokio applications, contact us
• To learn how to obtain coordinates and place records on maps, visit our Knowledge Base

Language files

Changing languages in Omniscope is easy, just select the language you or your users prefer. Language files are currently available for English (default), Spanish, French, Italian and German. Other languages are partially complete or need just a little editing. We are always looking for users to help translate our applications into languages not yet available. We provide a free activated edition of Omniscope and an Omniscope translation file with existing translations for all the phrases in the application. The translator consults the existing translations then adds new/improved text to the file to complete the column for a new language. The process is fully explained in our Translations Guide. If you would like to help us add your language, or you want to improve existing translations you work with, please send us a Translation Enquiry.

Merge files

We maintain a growing library of Merge Files for adding columns of reference data to your Omniscope files quickly. Omniscope's Merge Data wizard makes it quick and easy to add missing fields to your data sets from spreadsheets or .IOK merge files. If you have two multi-column files sharing a common column (e.g, country and city names, post codes, securities identifiers, etc.), you can use the Merge Data wizard to automatically match and join data from both files, adding missing fields (e.g. decimal longitude & latitude columns, different securities identifiers, etc.) to your data. If you know of a specific merge file that you would like to have in Omniscope .IOK file format for merging without the need for a database, please contact the content owner, or contact us.

Web services links

Omniscope includes a menu of preconfigured links to free Web Services. These links combine the contents of a selected column cell with the input for the service to be requested, such as a Google search on a name, or the Reuters or Bloomberg price quote/chart for a selected security ticker/identifier. Single-value web service requests can be added as buttons or links on any details page. Omniscope can also send lists of identifiers or even user-selected tables of inputs to remote computers requesting additional web services. The result pages can be displayed in one or more Omniscope Web Views, or in the users' default browser.  

We also maintain a list of web services links you can add to your files, provided your data includes a column of values which are acceptable as input paramenters.  We will be continuously adding to this list. If you provide a web service that you would like to have listed, please contact us. 

For more information on web services and how to use them, consult the Omniscope User Guide section on Web Services.

Image sets

We maintain an Image Set Library containing useful image sets (including hi-resoultiuon image sets matching embedded demos) you can download and associate with your files. We plan to add image sets most useful for files our customers typically create, e.g. currency symbols, etc. If you have image sets you would like to contribute or license, contact us.

Template files (coming soon)

We plan to provide pre-configured Omniscope template files ready to help you perform specific data management tasks for both business and personal use.

Connectors to remote/external data & platforms

Connectors enable Omniscope to import data from sources other than those that can be accessed via standard database connectivity protocols such as ODBC/JDBC.  Some Connectors, such as the Bloomberg Connector, are included in the Professional and EnterpriseEditions.  Others, such as the Omniscope Connector for Salesforce, are operated as web services permitting Omniscope users to access their remotely-hosted data.

Bloomberg- Omniscope Professional and Enterprise Editions running on Bloomberg PCs can import and refresh from Bloomberg data in real-time, or export selected portfolio reporting views from Omniscope into Excel for real-time updating from Bloomberg. For more on using Visokio with Bloomberg, see the Omniscope User Guide.

Connector for Salesforce- The Omniscope Connector for Salesforce is a free service available on the AppExchange that permits Salesforce users to download standard and custom data objects and reports as pre-configured Omniscope .IOK files. More information on the Connector is available on our AppExchange listing here and in the Omniscope User Guide. If you are developing your own AppExchange/APEX application and would like to offer an Omniscope download/upload option, please contact us.

We are gradually adding to the number of remote data sources/platforms Omniscope users can connect to. We also develop high-performance Connectors for bundling with proprietary customer premise installed applications. For more information on integration options, see our Knowledge Base. If you would like to discuss development of additional Connectors, please contact us.

Visokio Graphics

If you are publishing Omniscope files, you will want to display buttons linked to the free Viewer installer file download and file icons indicating downloadable .IOK/.IOM files using official  Visokio graphics.