Release notes - IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Data Entry 6

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Data Entry 6 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.

Description

Data Entry is a fully integrated interviewing solution for mobile and on-site data collection. The application provides a platform for managing data entry projects and houses the Data Entry Player for rapid entry. The Data Entry solution is comprised of the following Data Collection products:

IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer — a fully integrated interviewing solution for mobile and on-site data collection. Using Interviewer, you can conduct operations using automated data synchronization via server or manual data transfers in a non-server environment.
IBM SPSS Data Collection Author — used for creating and previewing surveys for use in a variety of output formats. When you have created your survey, you can activate it to an Interviewer Server or open it in Paper to format it and add scanning control information.
IBM SPSS Translation Utility — provides a simple, efficient method for translating text contained in Data Collection questionnaires and other forms.

For a list of new features in the latest Data Entry release, please visit http://www.spss.com/. New features are also listed in the “What's new in IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Entry 6?” topic in the online help.

Refer to DataCollection6ProductLicenseNotices-final-utf8.txt in the root directory of the installation CD\DVD for information pertaining to IBM SPSS Data Collection 3rd party acknowledgments.

Known problems

At time of publication, the following issues were known:

Author

Data Entry Player

Clicking previous, to go back and change the answer given to a previous iteration of a categorical loop question, results in follow-up questions being skipped. A work-around for this issue is to close and restart the Data Entry Player and reenter the correct grid size.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150111.
Questions that are defined as hidden in an unbounded loop are asked in the Data Entry Player. A work-around for this issue is to ensure that labels and categories are not hidden.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150222.

Questions pane

The display order of items in the Question pane design view can change when questions are placed into a section.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00028791.

Routings pane

An exception occurs after redoing a group action, and then clicking the routing pane while pressing the Shift key.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150037.

Shared Lists pane

The context menu is missing for shared lists in the Shared Lists pane.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029383.
If the name of the shared list is the same as one of its responses' names, the shared list cannot be attached to a question.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00071286.

Question Repository

The Question Repository features are only applicable when the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services - Server Adapter for Data Collection is installed on the appropriate IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services server.
Refer to the topic “IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services - Server Adapter” in the Data Collection Developer Library for more information.
When inserting a question item with multiple routings, only the first routing is inserted.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029452.
A misleading “not authorized” error message is displayed when you fail to access a repository due to a problem with its configuration.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00103674.
Question icons in the Routing or Question panes do not match the icons in the Insert Questions drop-down box.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00141755.

General issues

After modifying a routing name, section name, or page name, you cannot undo/redo the modification.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00071419.
It is not possible to base an If..Goto on special responses.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052020.
A CATI routing activated through Author can change the question order when imported into Interviewer Server - mrInterview.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029392.
Validating a document does not catch duplicate label declarations. This can cause Interview Preview and Activate to Interviewer Server - mrInterview to fail.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052022.
It is not currently possible to use numeric grids for If..Goto items.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052024.
When performing an Edit | Replace, all instances are replaced, instead of prompting to replace each found instance.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029402.
The Questions pane is not correctly updated when copying questions between Author instances.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052241.
Cannot display the correct page after using the script "LoopName.Ask()" in the Routing Section.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00030673.
The write to data source function is not working correctly. Possible work-arounds include: 1) save the document before adding the data source 2) do not use unsupported data sources.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150048.

Interviewer

An error is encountered during synchronization when attempting to load an unassigned project. A work-around for this issue is to manually configure the web.config file's SyncWebService time-out value:
1. Remote or login directly to the Interview Server.
2. In Notepad, open the web.config file (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\SPSSMR\SyncWebService)
3. Add the following section to the <System.web>... </System.web> section: <httpRuntime executionTimeout=”900”/>
4. Save the web.config file.
In the above example, the timeout value is changed to 900 seconds (15 minutes). You can also configure the time-out value on the Interviewer client. To configure the time-out on the client, add an attribute to the <Connection>... </Connection> section in the InterviewPlayer.config file. For example: <Connections Timeout="33330000">
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00143141.
You may encounter a Validation function. Error when re-keying duplicate entries. A work-around for this issue is to close and restart the Data Entry Player and reenter the correct grid size.
For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00149298.

Translation Utility

None at this time.

Release notes - IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Entry 6

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