Yearly Archives: 2014

Cumulative updates & future milestones

Over the past month, we have slightly shifted our development & release process with askiavista: instead of longer development cycles with many fixes & improvements, we have began to release smaller versions that mainly include fixes where new features are added at a slower pace. This helps us maximise our response rate when fixing urgent issues. So, we are doing our best to release early, release often. Below, a breakdown of the two latest minor updates for askiavista: Version 6.0.3.1 released 21/11/2014 Add footnotes property to tables (new)…

Significance and Count Threshold

Why does significance change when I switch level or add waves of data in Askia Analyse? This post explains which count is considered for the ‘Count threshold’ setting in Col sig advanced options. There is detail on how to calculate ‘Counts when independent’ and why this can change sig testing when the total base grows. From time to time clients will raise a query regarding sig testing (Column significativity on closed) for a particular cell changing when the total base of their table grows, even though the count and % for…

Myforce opens a new office in Prague!

I have a bit of important MyForce news to share with you: we opened a new office in Prague, Czech Republic! Kateřina Marková (whom we have worked with for many years already) becomes managing director of MyForce CZ. As Myforce keeps on growing both in turnover and in number of countries where our solutions are installed, opening MyForce CZ was a logical next step for us. Choosing Prague as our new office location is no coincidence, as we had good reasons to opt for this particular city: First…

New AskiaVista AJAX API 2.2.0

The new AskiaVista AJAX API (2.2.0) is now released with the latest 6.0.3.x version of AskiaVista. The documentation is now up-to-date List of new features/fixes: Add `footnote` parameter in cross-tab query (settings.results.footnote) Add `language` parameter in queries to specify the survey language. It could also be add on the config, or specify via url Add a new `languageUrlParam` in the configuration to read the survey language via the URL Add methods: getPortfolioLinks getPortfolioLink savePortfolioLink deletePortfolioLink getPortfolioLinkLayouts getPortfolioLinkThemes savePortfolioLinkTheme deletePortfolioLinkTheme getResources saveResource deleteResource htmlEncode Take in account the new…

This askiavista is massive!

Askiavista 6.0.3.0

We have finally released version 6.0.3.0 of askiavista! First, of all, don’t judge a book by looking at the cover: this is more a 6.1 version than a minor version. Indeed, it packs: 22 new features 22 bug fixes 7 miscellaneous tasks Below, some of the key new features: Portfolio section pages Users can now create Section pages within their Portfolios; these pages allow to add formatted text and media (image & video). Such pages are a great solution for report introductions, notes, metadata, … New portfolio link…

Askia opens office in LA and now hiring!

Askia opens in LA and hiring!

Askia has set up a new office in Los Angeles. The office is the second for Askia in the United States, reflecting the growth of the company’s survey software business and demand from marketing research agencies for specialised, innovative software solutions. Jamey Corriveau, Director of U.S. Operations, will head up the new office. Jamey is currently hiring both client service and technical support staff to provide expanded customer care. Corriveau has worked for over 25 years in the survey and market research industry, with 14 years at SPSS…

New Knowledge Base articles incoming!

Knowledge base articles incoming!

We have been regularly updating Askia’s Help centre with various KB articles that cover our software offering. Here are some of these latest articles: Askiadesign: about:blank error message Microsoft recently updated Internet Explorer. This update may cause the below error message to be displayed in askiadesign: See the full article to fix this issue. Askiafield: Data exports: Methods, Pros & Cons This in-depth article covers all you need to know about the different data export methods along with the pros & cons for each method. From Supervisor’s Export to QES…

Hierarchy: a new ADC 2.0 survey control

Just to let you know we’ve just added an article in the Help Centre about Hierarchy, a new ADC 2.0 control designed by Mamadou. You can find the latest version of the ADC, an example .QEX file as well as a test link to view it live (there are 3 screens in the survey). You also got a small video explaining how use the control and create the database. Here is the detailed KB article.