Do you need to create some test metadata and data that you can play with. If you do then check this article out. In it we will show you how to use the AutoAnswer system that comes with Author and Author Professional Data Collection tools.
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Inactivate a job on a specific date.
Ever wanted to schedule turning a project to inactive so that no more interviewers can be collected? This article shows you how to login to the DPMServer , find the project and make it inactive.
An early Christmas present from Verge Consutling
Christmas is almost apon us and before we know it , we will all be in holiday mode, sitting back relaxing. Anyway , as you already know , Verge Consulting is a company that works in the SPSS IBM Data Collection space offering a wide range of products and services. Just recently they sent eveyone they knew a present of some realy cool templates and special features. This article shows you a few screen shots of some of the things they are giving you for free. The full download can be found here. Thanks Verge and Happy Christmas Everyone !!!
Learn Flash Lesson 5 : Upload the files to the server
A while back Kevin mentioned that we might have issues when trying to upload our surveys into our Interviewer Server. As promised we checked what we had done to see if anything strange would happen that we did not expect. This article describes the process that we used to get our Lesson 3 activated on a server.
Learn Flash Lesson 4 : Generic Flash Example
In this article we will take what we have learnt so far and explore one concept in making our flash object generic. The idea here will be to pass something into the flash object that set’s it up and then the flash object returns the selected result. This object could then be used in multiple positions throughout our survey to collect data.
Learn Flash Lesson 3 : Categorical Question
In the previous two articles we saw how to pass things from a flash object to data collection server and back again. In this article we will make a categorical style question in flash and link it to our data collection survey. We will start with passing the data back to a text box and then progress onto linking it to a categorical question.
Learn Flash Lesson 2 : Pass it back to Data Collection Server
In our previous article on flash we discovered how to create a flash object with two text boxes on it and a button that could interact with an html page via JavaScript. In this article we will discover how to add all this code into a html file that can be used with a Data Collection Server survey.
Learn Flash Lesson 1 : Lets Get Started
As promised here are our articles on integrating flash and data collection server. We started learning FLASH about 3 days ago and we now believe that we have found enough information to get something working. To get going with this , we downloaded the latest version of “Adobe Flash CS4 Professional” which gave us a 30 day trial. This has been more than enough time for us to get things working.
Killing two birds with one stone
Recently we were asked by our friends in India if we had any information around running Data Collection surveys for mobile devices. We don’t have anything , but we wonder if you do and would like to share it ? We have also created a survey that we would like you to try on your mobile device. If you don’t have a mobile device that can use the internet we would still like you to take this survey as it asks you amongst other things what you think about the IBM / SPSS acquisition. We will report our findings out at the end of the month.
Thanks once again to 2×4 consulting for letting us use their servers
Learn HTML : The Image/Template Cache
We will always want to add images into our surveys to perhaps show a company logo or some items of clothing that you are running the survey about. To get images into your surveys you could upload the images onto your company website and reference them from there, but that would require help from your web administrator. A better way to use images is to use the Image Cache that mrInterview provides.