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What was New in Version 8.0

We added too many new features to list, but here are the highlights:

Web Surveys 

  • Include streaming video and other media effects
  • Preview pages in a built-in browser
  • Show progress bars
  • Include hyperlinks in question text
  • Rename first page of questionnaire
  • Select colors from a palette
  • Show Answer Comparison and report grids with rows in alternating colors
  • Show Answer Comparison grids with row labels on both sides
  • Combine multiple MS tables into one, to use more than 20 variables
  • Import information from comma-delimited files into fixed locations in Password Files
  • Email invitations in batches starting and ending at any points in address file
  • Insert Recipient Names in the text of Email Invitations
  • Insert the Web questionnaire into your site’s template page
  • Show previously entered answers when going back and forth in a questionnaire
  • Optionally use images as forward and back buttons
  • New question type provides information without expecting an answer
  • Show question text or messages with a background color
  • Closing text can go above or below Send button
  • New logic:
    • Base delayed skips or avoids on an individual variable in an MS or AC table
    • Insert an individual variable from an MS or AC table into another table
    • Prevent duplicate responses to ranking type questions
    • Use two different earlier questions in calculate instructions

Sample Management

  • Allow up to 15 Call Attempts
  • Define up to 39 Result Codes
  • Keep track of Interviewer hours and can report results per hour
  • Reserve callbacks for original interviewer
  • Assign different numbers of minutes between attempts based on last result
  • Show history of attempts to reach current number in Call window
  • Import information from comma-delimited (.csv) files into fixed locations in Sample Files
  • Export Sample Files in comma-delimited format
  • Randomize the order of telephone numbers in a Sample File
  • Specify that only certain interviewers handle certain types of calls
  • Keep a list of phone numbers you never want to call
  • Produce reports showing how many numbers are available in each quota group

Interviewing

  • Show video
  • Same new logic as Web surveys
  • Show Answer Comparison questions as grids
  • Combine multiple Mean Summary tables into one showing more than 20 variables
  • Suppress the number pad in the Interview window
  • Enter instructions as a new "question" type that provides information without expecting an answer
  • Include a pop-up Interviewer Comment window 

Longer Labels, Bigger Numbers, New Convenience Features and More  

  • Row labels up to 90 characters long in one line that wraps as needed on tables
  • Mean Summary and Descriptive Statistics Tables can use numbers up to 15 digits long
  • Insert and delete rows from tables
  • Save and import labels from an answer library
  • Specify maximum values in table instructions – no more maximum value files
  • Find and replace text in an instruction file
  • Produce tables using up to nine banners at once
  • Data and Verbatim Files can have up to 30,000 columns each
  • Create subset of questions can include Verbatim File columns
  • Perform data transformations only on questionnaires that meet specified criteria
  See what features were added to Version 8.1


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