IGoogle … Do you ? … recently i had time to play with this and began to unravel the wonders that Google has been releasing as open source style code for a while now. Gadgets and Charting … what next ? .. This article will show you a few demo gadgets we have made that we are sure you could expand on.
Month: December 2008
How to use DMQuery to find out my connection string
When you write mrStudio scripts you will frequently need to create connection strings. To help you achieve this SPSS has produced several tools that once connected to a data source will show you the connection string. This article will show you how to display the connection string while you are using the tool DMQUERY.
Displaying an arbitrary number in the rows of a table
Sometimes you are asked to display a quota target or some other non-aggregated number in a table. A member of the Dimensions community passed on a strategy that uses the Rot function to place a number in a table.
How to use WinDMSRun
There are a few tools that you should always be using to help you with your Dimensions work this article is about the tool “WinDMSRun”. WinDMSRun helps you quickly export data via dms scripts withought having to write any code. The WinDMSRun tool comes with the Dimensions development library and if you have this installed you can find it in the following directory.
Scripting Efficiency
Recently we wrote and article on “How can I get the text for a category” and a comment was raised that it was not perhaps the best way and the fastest way to write that particular routine. The comments where well founded and raised an important topic in our minds as to how things should be written and the effect on performance that a badly written function could have on your script. This article takes the script and does some analysis to see just how slow it is.
Using Banners in mrInterview
In the scripting for mrInterview you can use the object IOM. This is a collection of all the properties of the current interview. Amongst the list of properties belonging to IOM there is a collection named “Banners”. In the routing of your intervew script (i.e. your MDD-file!) you can add elements to this collection. By doing this you just add a new banner to your interview screen. This banner will need to have a name and a text like:
How to use MDMExplorer
There are a few tools that you should always be using to help you with your Dimensions work this article is about the tool “MDM Explorer”. MDMExplorer helps you look in detail at Metadata Documents ( MDD ). It will show you all the collections and properties of an MDD file and allow you to change some of the values stored in it. The MDM Explorer tool comes with the Dimensions development library and if you have this installed you can find it in the following directory.
Redirect at the end of a survey
Use
IOM.Texts.EndOfInterview
and
IOM.Texts.EndOfInterview
to setup text to be displayed to the respondent after the interview has completed or when it has stopped. These can also be used to setup a redirect.
You can use a REFRESH meta tag as the text to force a redirect. For example, the following would redirect to this blog when the interview completes.
IOM.Texts.EndOfInterview = "<meta http-equiv='REFRESH' content='0; URL=https://www.SmarterDatacolection.com' />"
Setup different texts for
IOM.Texts.InterviewStopped
to redirect respondents differently based on the interview. For example, you might redirect respondents that failed quota to another survey or redirect respondents who answered a particular question to a particular page.
If you need to include an ampersand in your URL, then use the
&
construct for getting the & past the HTML validator in the HTML player. If you forget and use just &, you will see the HTML for the URL on your end page, rather than being redirected.ode
How to use DMQuery
There are a few tools that you should always be using to help you with your Dimensions work this article is about the tool “DMQuery”. We can use DMQuery to look at data and see what information particular respondents have recorded, but it should also be noted that we can use DMQuery to edit data , get counts and even market research style table results.