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Up till now, the following versions of these applications were released:
Details:
Versions 1.0x:
- 1.04:
- Added: rand key for randomizing the order responses are displayed in.
- Enhanced: data export in tab-delimited format with response identifiers in place of response numeric codes.
- Added: charts presenting the status of surveys.
- Added: option to send e-mails to panelists (e-mails that are not invitations to surveys).
- 1.03:
- Added: upload key for uploading files from respondents to the server.
- Added: protected attribute for questions that should not be written when exporting data that is being sent off-site.
- Added: flash movies can now be displayed in the questionnaire using the play key.
- Enhanced: precondition expressions can now handle negation, conjunction and disjunction operators.
- Changed: multi-dimensional questions are now displayed with header and footer rows with responses; table cells include only response controls.
- 1.02:
- Support for long open ended responses; the following keys were added:
- open - define a text response as a long (multi-line) open ended response,
- length - define the maximum length of text responses (in characters),
- width - define the width of text input boxes,
- height - define the height (in lines) of the input box for long open ended responses.
- Added SPSS syntax format for the descriptions of variables when exporting data from YAC Interview Manager.
- 1.01:
- Support for surveys accessible only by invitation;
used usually with consumer panels to send invitations to all or a subgroup of panelists;
all other surveys are generally accessible.
- New key added - name - that is used when exporting questions, axes, and responses (in place of the respective texts) from YAC Interview Manager.
- New key added - demo - that defines demonstration questionnaires;
demo surveys can be taken any number of times and responses are not saved to the database.
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This first version of our software already includes the following functionality:
- Survey description language:
- single-choice questions,
- multi-choice questions,
- single-choice responses in multi-choice questions (e.g. "none"),
- numeric questions (with range checking),
- additional text responses (e.g. "other (please specify)"),
- open ended questions that can include multiple text responses (e.g. "specify 3 car brands that you know best"),
- grid questions that can contain all other types of questions,
- nested grid questions,
- responses can be displayed in list boxes and combo boxes,
- responses can be displayed horizontally or vertically,
- codes can be defined for responses (for instance, for calculation of means),
- jumps to other questions (also, the interview itself may be finished when a given response is selected),
- questions with no responses (treated as information texts),
- a question can be displayed on a new page or on the same page as the previous question,
- all texts in the questionnaire can be versioned based on the respondent's sex,
- multiple fonts can be used to display all questionnaire texts (bold, italic, various colors and sizes),
- allowing no response,
- displaying multimedia content (audio and video),
- ending pages where the respondents are directed after finishing the interview,
- quota control (with the ability of defining complex conditions, such as the sizes of age groups crossed with sex).
- Questionnaire editor (YAC Interview Builder):
- syntax highlighting,
- correctness checking,
- test runs of the questionnaire in the Windows or web console programs,
- test runs of the whole questionnaire or a part of it
(selected question only, all questions starting from the selected one,
all questions up to the selected up, all questions in the highlighted block),
- standard editing function, including...
- multiple document interface,
- column and line blocks,
- inserting files as blocks, saving blocks to files,
- find / replace with regular expression and incremental search,
- multi-level undo / redo,
- macro registration and playback,
- indenting / unindenting blocks,
- bookmarks,
- single line and multi-line comments,
- errors are saved in the script file as special comments,
- navigation through all errors in the script,
- Interviewing software (YAC Interview Station and YAC Interview On-Line):
- going back to the previous question (with correct handling of filters),
- not only responses are saved to the DB, but all operations (like moving back)
and times when consecutive questions were displayed to the respondent,
- highlighting of the response currently being pointed to by the mouse pointer,
- quota control,
- an interview cam be paused and resume at some later time,
- an interview cannot be taken multiple times by the same respondent,
- multimedia playback (audio and video),
- handling of various graphical templates,
- a Windows version - YAC Interview Station - off-line interviews (CASI),
especially when the exact times of respondent reactions are needed,
- a web version - YAC Interview On-Line -
an off-line version for script testing and an on-line version for interviewing (that runs under Apache).
- Survey management program (YAC Interview Manager):
- data exporting to various formats:
- Fixed-ASCII or tab-delimited with simple variable descriptions,
- YAC Data Kit;
- surveys based on consumer panels - handling of invitations,
- status on the current state of fieldwork.
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