What's new in Results for Research® 7.0

• Remote supervising tool.

  1. Make selected projects available online (intranet, extranet or internet) for remote management.
  2. Remotely monitor interviewer's web CATI screens.
  3. Monitor interviewer status.
  4. View live quota counts.
  5. Edit quota records.
  6. View live sample listing.
  7. Edit interviewer records.
  8. Access to online interviewer and sample reports.
  9. Access live marginals and topline data.

• Interviewer interface for web CATI has been redesigned.

  1. The "Begin Interview" screen as been simplified.
  2. CONTACT.INI, located in the study directory, allows for the customization of sample contact information available on the first screen.
  3. Sample is now searchable.
  4. Sample can be editted from any interviewing screen via the F8 key or by clicking on the "View Sample" button.
  5. A comment can be editted from any interviewing screen via the F12 key or by clicking on the "Comments" button. This comment is available on the "Begin Interview" screen.
  6. The appointment screen has been updated.
     • New dynamic calendar to make appointment selection easier.
     • The real time server time is displayed in the interviewer and respondent time zones.
     • Sample is now editable from the appointment screen.
  7. Greater support for modern browsers.

• Changes to question layout.

  
  These changes include...
  1. New brand list question layout; responses can now be added to brand lists.
  2. Custom choice questions are now more interactive; each row highlights when the mouse hovers over text.
  3. Open ended questions will now disable entered text while an out of range responde is selected.
  4. Numerix matrix and Constant sum questions have new keypad entry options when entering a number.
     • D selects "Don't know" where available
     • + selects "Don't know" where available
     • R selects "Refused" where available
     • - selects "Refused" where available
     • N selects "Not applicable" where available
     • * selects "Not applicable" where available
  5. The tab order of all question types has been ammended to make keypad entry more efficient.
  6. New CSS classes.

• Technical changes/ issues:

  1. New client-server database option; using the Advantage Database Server (ADS) from Sybase® iAnywhere.
  2. New indexes (older studies must be reindexed before they can be used).
  3. New location for system-wide DBF files. Applies to WebCATI.DBF and MESSAGE.DBF which were previously located in C:\Program Files\1by1\Results.
  4. r4tn_error.htm located in C:\Inetpub\Scripts allows for the customization of Result's error page. This file is optional.
  5. New C:\Inetpub\Scripts\R4TN.INI file settings (Used by nph-R4TN.exe):
     • system The location of the system-wide DBF files (WebCATI.DBF, Message.DBF and Users.DBF)
     • study_alias The network path to the studies directory if different to the server path.
     • rdd_name The name of the file access system to use "DBFCDX" by default or "AXDBFCDX" if the more advanced ADS mode is being used.
     • dial Custom code to add to the href attribute of an HTML <a> tag around the SAMPLE->Voicephone field in the "Begin Interview" screen. Use this option to implement a dialer.
     • monitordir The directory where monitoring HTML files are to be written.
     • monitorurl The URL used to access the monitoring HTML files.
  6. New C:\Windows\RMANW.INI file settings (used by Results Manager):
     • remote_r4tn The URL to used to point to nph-R4TN.exe
     • remote_r4tnrpt The URL to used to point to nph-R4TNRpt.exe
     • remote_studies The network path to the studies directory.
     • remote_studies_alias The server path to the studies directory (this is the path as nph-R4TN.exe would see it).
     • remote_webcati The network location of the system-wide DBF files (WebCATI.DBF, Message.DBF and Users.DBF). This is the network location of "system" as seen by nph-R4TN.exe

• New functions available in CASI and web CATI

  1. SortList( nList [, cSortOrder] [, cSortType] ) Sort a Results list. Case insensitive, returns .T. if successful.
     nList: The list number.
     cSortOrder: "A"scending, or "D"escending. Optional, defaults to ascending.
     cSortType: "C"haracter or "N"umeric sorting. Optional, defaults to character.
     
  2. PosInList( nList, cSeek ) Returns the position in the list of the last occurrence (if duplicated) of cSeek. Case insensitive, returns zero if not found.
     nList: The list number.
     cSeek: The character expression to search for.
     
  3. ShowAfter( nList, cSeek ) Return the list item that occurs after the last occurrence (if duplicated) of cSeek. Case insensitive, returns "" if not found.
     nList: The list number.
     cSeek: The character expression to search for.
     
  4. ShowBefore( nList, cSeek ) Return the list item that occurs before the last occurrence (if duplicated) of cSeek. Case insensitive, returns "" if not found.
     nList: The list number.
     cSeek: The character expression to search for.
     
  5. ShowFromThis( nList, cSeek, nIncrement ) Return the list item that occurs nIncrement places before or after the last occurrence (if duplicated) of cSeek. Case insensitive, returns "" if not found.
     nList: The list number.
     cSeek: The character expression to search for.
     nIncrement: Positive or negative number to count from.
     
  6. QuotaList( nList [, cSampleField] ) Create a list of quotatypes in open quotas sorted by QuotaToGo() and add them to list number nList. Returns .T. if the list was created. Use this function to calculate least fill quotas.
     nList: The list number.
     cSampleField: Is the name of the sample field (QUOTA->samplefld) to filter the list on. Leave empty to return all.
     
  7. SumQ( cQuest [, cRange] [, lCheckCvars] ) Return the sum of the answers to question cQuest.
     cQuest: Is a matrix question name.
     cRange: May be a list or range of responses to include i.e. "1-4" or "1,3,4" or "1-3,5". This is optional.
     lCheckCvars: By default is .F.. If lCheckCvars is .T. then only count qualifying answers. This is optional.
     
  8. CountAnswer(xAnswers, cQuest [, cRange] [, lCheckCvars]) Return the number of times an answer in cQuest passes an expression at xAnswers.
     xAnswers: Can be a single number, an array of numbers, a single expression from this list

     Expressions allowed at xAnswers:
     "YES"
     "NO"
     "DK"
     "NA"
     "RF"
     "EM"
     "ZERO"
     "TEXT" | "OS"
     ">#"
     "<#"
     "=#"
     "BETWEEN,#,#"

     , an array of expressions, or an array containing a mixture of expressions and numbers.
     cQuest: Is a matrix question name.
     cRange: May be a list or range of responses to include i.e. "1-4" or "1,3,4" or "1-3,5". This is optional.
     lCheckCvars: By default is .F.. If lCheckCvars is .T. then only count qualifying answers. This is optional.
     
  9. Updated existing function: IsAnswer( xAnswers, cQuest [, cOption] [, cRange] ) Returns true if an answer in cQuest passes an expression at xAnswers, returns false if not.
     xAnswers: Can be a single number, an array of numbers, a single expression from this list

     Expressions allowed at xAnswers:
     "YES"
     "NO"
     "DK"
     "NA"
     "RF"
     "EM"
     "ZERO"
     "TEXT" | "OS"
     ">#"
     "<#"
     "=#"
     "BETWEEN,#,#"

     , an array of expressions, or an array containing a mixture of expressions and numbers.
     cQuest: Is a matrix question name.
     cOption: May be "ANY", "ALL", "<#", ">#" or "=#". This is optional, "ANY" is assumed.
     cRange: May be a list or range of responses to include i.e. "1-4" or "1,3,4" or "1-3,5". This is optional.
     
  10. GetQuestionText( [cQuestion] ) Returns the question text for question cQuestion. Useful when creating Raw HTML questions. Using this function in cQuestion's question text will cause an error.
      cQuestion: Optional: The question name. Defaults to current question.
      
  11. GetResponseText( nResponse [, cQuestion] ) Returns the question text for question cQuestion. Useful when creating Raw HTML questions.
      nResponse: The response text to return.
      cQuestion: Optional: The question name. Defaults to current question.
      
  12. StudyName() Returns the short path of the current study.
      
  13. MonitorURL( [cStudyName] [, xRecord] [, lFileName] ) Returns the URL used to monitor a web respondent or an interviewer while they're online.
      cStudyName: Optional: The short path to the study. Defaults to current study.
      xRecord: Optional: The SAM_NO of the respondent to monitor or the INTCODE of the interviewer to monitor. Defaults to current SAM_NO.
      lFileName: Optional: Return URL even if monitoring has not been turned on for this respondent or interviewer. Defaults to False.
      
  14. MonitorURL( [cStudyName] [, xRecord] [, lFileName] ) Returns the URL used to monitor a web respondent or an interviewer while they're online.
      cStudyName: Optional: The short path to the study. Defaults to current study.
      xRecord: Optional: The SAM_NO of the respondent to monitor or the INTCODE of the interviewer to monitor. Defaults to current SAM_NO.
      lFileName: Optional: Return URL even if monitoring has not been turned on for this respondent or interviewer. Defaults to False.
      

• Additional features and bug fixes made to CASI and web CATI.

  1. Almost 100 minor bug fixes and improvements to HTML output.
  2. The interviewer status is now recorded in INTVRS.DBF
  3. AddRefer() now operates correctly.
  4. EditRefer() now operates correctly.
  5. Study files can now be shared across directories by ammending [File_path] in the STUDY.INI.
     A new addition to R4TN.INI "study_alias" must be updated if the network path to the studies directory differs from the server path.
  6. INTVRS.DBF now holds more information about the record currently being interviewed: SAM_NO; last question answered; qbase completion percentage.
  7. Native support for remote monitoring of interviewer and respondent Results screens.
     • While the logic field INTVRS->Monitor is True, HTML output of the interviewer's Results screen is written to http://yourserver.com/r4tn/monitor.
     • While the logic field SAMPLE->Monitor is True, HTML output of the respondent's Results screen is written to http://yourserver.com/r4tn/monitor.
  8. Add custom validation messages (replacing the generic "Response does not meet validation rules" error message) via the QBASE->Error_Msg field.
  9. New QBASE->OnSubmit field executes JavaScript before page is submitted to allow for custom client-side validations.
  10. New QBASE->HeadScript field gives access the the HTML <head> section.

Last updated: 01 January 2007 18:00 (GMT)