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NIPO Fieldwork System 1.11 release

On 4 November 2009 we released the NIPO Fieldwork System 1.11 for CATI/Web Interviewing, the new version of our telephone and web data collection system.

A short overview of the most important new features and fixes:

Multi Location Support in the NIPO CATI / Web Manager:
The NIPO CATI / Web Master now supports multiple locations. Supervisors and interviewers are able to access only the surveys assigned to their location; supervisors cannot access surveys belonging to other locations. This allows you to limit access to surveys as well as limit supervisor to view only to interviewers on their location.

Grid Composer in the NIPO ODIN Developer:
A user-friendly Grid Composer is now available to generate the scripting of grids and scales efficiently with adequate spacing. After entering the parameters in the Insert Grid Question screen, the script for the grid / scales will be inserted into the script in the Q-file. You can quickly create the script of grid / scales of *MULTI, *SCALE, *GRID, *NON, *CONTROL, VCONTROL commands to be further modified upon your needs.

Separate TemplateRelatedFiles folders for CAPI and CAWI previews in the NIPO ODIN Developer:
You can now set separate TemplateRelatedFiles folders for the CAPI and CAWI previews, rather than having to use the same folder for both. This is useful if scripting is required for both channels because there are small differences between CAPI and CAWI HTML rendering, and because you may wish to apply different templates and styling for the channels.

Send E-mail invitations in waves:
When selecting a list of sample records to send an invitation, it is now possible to specify that the message is sent in waves rather than in one go. You determine the size of each wave in the number of E-mails.

Make or change appointments for more than one sample record at the time:
You can now make or change appointments for more than one sample record at a time. In the sample table, make your selection, right-click the grid and select Make / Change appointment… from the dropdown list. The usual dialog for appointment changes appears. Any changes are applied to all records in your selection.

Improved interview progress estimation for NIPO CAWI and NIPO CAPI:
In the HTML templates of NIPO CAWI and NIPO CAPI it is possible to include a progress bar that gave a percentage of progression through the questionnaire. A number of issues have been resolved that improve the indicator's progress estimation:
1. A bug has been removed in which a question too many was calculated for the total, causing the progress bar to end prematurely.
2. All *DUMMY questions are now ignored for progress estimations. Note that nullevaluating filter questions and questions without text are still counted – these can therefore be used to invisibly influence the progress bar.
3. Progress is now correctly counted across *REPEAT and *GOSUB blocks. The progress bar no longer halts at such sections.

Please read the NIPO Fieldwork System 1.11 New Features and Known Issues for a full overview of what's new in this release.

 

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