New version 5.3.5.0 of askiadesign

We’re excited to announce that a new version (5.3.5.0) of askiadesign is available; as usual, this update contains some nice new features as well as some dead bugs!

Update question properties globally or for a set of questions

We have added a new “Set questions” menu when right-clicking a question in the treeview. You can choose to activate/deactivate four options:

• Allow Don’t Know
• Visible
• Ordered responses
• Visible in Analyse

New “Change the response order” routing

In the same way we use the “Change order” routing to randomize questions, we can now manually specify the order of the responses shown using the new “Change the response order” routing.

New shortcuts for routings

You can now use Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V to copy and paste routings and also Alt + Up / Alt + Down to move routings up and down.

Filter view improvement in the routing mode

There are now 4 options available to filter the routings summary view:

• All routings (view all routings of the questionnaire)
• After selected question (view the routings where the start question is the one selected in the question tree)
• Targeting selected question (view the routings where the target question is the one selected in the question tree)
• Involving selected question (view the routings where the start or target question or any script referring to the selected one in the treeview)

Script window improvement

We have improved the dialog to create askia scripts and integrated into the HTML code an interactive help about the current question
allowing you to search responses and insert a range of responses.
We have also removed the obsolete win32 controls to allow more real estate to the script itself.

More keywords for the askia scripts

We have added the new Interview object to the askia scripts and implemented the following properties:

• Interview.Broker
• Interview.BrokerPanelID
• Interview.GUID
• Interview.IPAddress
• Interview.Latitude
• Interview.Longitude
• Interview.PanelID
• Interview.Progress
• Interview.Seed
• Interview.ToString
• Interview.TypeOf

We have also added the StdDevEst which works on numerical array. The StdDev is equivalent to STDEV.P and StdDevEst to STDEV.S in Microsoft Excel.

Property view allowing HTML preview in realtime

We have added a property view which allows users to change settings in any of the controls (including ADC) without having to right-click “Properties”, change the settings, click apply, view in HTML mode.

The complete list of new features and bug fixes can be found here.