One of the most powerful features of DiskView Professional Edition is the ability to customize the appearance of the Visualizer, as well as generate a variety of reports using custom XSL Stylesheets.

For a recent demo, we made a custom XSL Stylesheet for Ohio State University’s Office of Information Technology.  The design theme is based on the current website for OSU-OIT. The stylesheet completely changes the appearance of the DiskView Visualizer, generating a report in a format most suited for the department:

The same stylesheet can be used for generating and publishing static HTML reports using DiskView Professional Edition’s scripting API, and is included in the DiskView Scripting Guide as a sample. To use the custom stylesheet, all you need to do is:

1) Extract osu.xsl from the Scripting Guide zip file to some place on your disk
2) Open DiskView Options  > Advanced tab, and select the checkbox for using customized XSL stylesheet.
3) Browse to osu.xsl that you extracted earlier in Step 1. Click OK to close the dialog and browse to another folder.

Now the custom stylesheet will be used to render the Visualizer pane, and will also be used for generating the HTML reports using DiskView’s scripting API.

This is a sample we put together quickly. A person with experience in HTML and a bit of XSL should be able to modify the provided custom XSL stylesheets to make a wide variety of reports.