Score Viewer - Customizing the viewer experience

The power of Sibelius Cloud Publishing comes from the ability to customize the viewer experience using the API. This allows you to tailor each view of the score to your business and user needs.

Most viewer features are customisable on a per view basis. Let's say for example, you want to display a single page of your score as a taster for your users, and then display that same score in its entirety once the user has purchased it - the Sibelius Cloud API lets you do just that, with no need to create and publish separate scores.

View properties

When creating or updating a view, you can set properties such as blur, downloadable, printable, transposable, pages, footer, and others. See the view schema for a full list.

Parts and subsets

You may notice an allow_parts field in view responses. This field controls whether viewers can switch between instrument parts and score subsets within a score.

This feature is managed by Sibelius users via the Sibelius application and is not configurable by publisher accounts. The field is included in API responses for informational purposes and any value provided when creating or updating a view will be silently ignored for publisher accounts.