SurveyWriter.net Enhancements - May 4

Account Administration Menu

Enhancement Explanation
Log out You typically only have to use this option to reset your SurveyWriter session if the session is corrupted or cookies are deleted.

Results Menu

Enhancement Explanation
New Record Type Four category of respondents:
  • Completes. Any respondent who gets to the "Closing" page.
  • Terminates. Any respondent who is forced out from the survey because of a Quota Control where the Quota Limit is set to zero.
  • Over Quota. Any respondent who is forced out from the survey because of a Quota Control where the Quota Limit is set to GREATER than zero.
  • Incompletes. Any respondent who has not completed a survey or has not been forced out of the survey by a Quota Control. This group will be comprised of respondents who just quit (drops), leave temporarily (suspend) or are currently in the survey.

 

Record Counts

Counts the four category of respondents including:

  • Completes
  • Terminates
  • Over quota
  • Incompletes
Manage Records and Sessions
(Options just relocated to this menu) 		Can now delete and undelete. When a record is "deleted," it will not be downloaded in the data file or processed in the reports.
  • Completes
  • Terminates
  • Over Quota
  • Incompletes

Can now mark as completed:

  • Terminates
  • Over Quota
  • Incompletes
Download Data
Filetype
Record Type
Fields To Retrieve
Options
Fixed Width ASCII 
Over Quotas, Incompletes
By Question, Closed-End Fields Only, Open-End Fields Only
Can now download multiple valued questions as Boolean characters (1 or 0) rather than their assigned code values.

 

Manage Verbatims - Call SurveyWriter for the 
information to use this option. Instructions will 
soon be online. 		You can now download and code offline answers to text questions (Open-end text boxes and "Other Text" boxes). There are three categories of Verbatim Responses:
  • Open-end Text Boxes
  • Other Text boxes for Standard Questions
  • Other Text Boxes for Grid Questions

 

Manage Translations - Instructions available 
directly from the Manage Translations window. 		The translation process can be self-managed by downloading the files to be sent to the translation service, receiving them back from the service, uploading them into the project and inserting the translated text. The following options are now available. 
  • Download Question File 
  • Download Survey Options File 
  • Insert Translation Text

Survey Options Menu

Enhancement Explanation
OverQuota Message Added an OverQuota Message. If not used, the Terminate message is used instead.
Upload Fetch File - Instructions available 
directly from the Upload Fetch File window. 		Fetch Files enable you to pull in data from an outside data source. This option enables you to manage the process of uploading the spreadsheet with the data onto our servers. 
Exit URLS

 		Now have key words that can be used in place of Filter Statements:
  • COMPLETE - Sends respondent to closing page.
  • TERMINATE - Sends respondent to terminate page.
  • OVERQUOTA - Sends respondent to over quota page.

Project Adminstration Menu

Enhancement Explanation
Survey Url Options 
Virtual Hosting Option - Instructions available directly from Survey URL window. 
Allows you to load a file on your server to make it look as if your web site is hosting the survey

Question Options Screen 

Enhancement Explanation
Multiple Pre-Question Filters Added ability to insert multiple pre-question filters.
SOUNDX - New Conditional Operator for Filters The SOUNDX filter is designed for awareness studies that require respondents to enter their responses themselves. If a respondent enters something close to the intended word, the respondent will be allowed to see the next question. For example, you may want to show a question only to those who entered the words, "Federal Express" in the previous question. However, you don't want to exclude them if they've spelled their response slightly incorrectly such as:

Fedral Express
Fed Ex
Fedral Expres
etc.

The SOUNDX filter is used to ensure that all spellings close to the correct one will be accepted. Use the following syntax in prequestion filters.

{Q1-C1-R1 [SOUNDX3] Federal Express}

Q1-C1-R1 = Question ID with column and row number
SOUNDX = Comparison Operator 
3 =  Level of similarity. Values include 0 through 4: 0 indicates little or no similarity, and 4 indicates strong similarity or identical values
Federal Express = Words to check spelling against