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Latest resources for our users

Latest resources for our users

Even though we’ve been on holidays, some of our dedicated support staff have been working hard to provide you with some great resources for your upcoming surveys: help articles, new survey controls and more! Here’s an overview of all the new goodies you’ll be able to find on our help centre: Universe settings This short article covers all the basics on Universes, an often misunderstood feature of askiaanalyse. It’s indeed often ambiguously connected to another Filters / Sub-populations. The article in detail how Universes do not change the counts but change the percentages…

New Knowledge Base articles!

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We’ve been adding a host of new articles and survey resources to our Help Centre; here are some of the most noteworthy of them: Quota Monitoring for Analyse & Vista This article shows the use of the Read quota function in a Closed by scripts created variable. We combine this function with table arithmetic scripts to create a portfolio that will allow you to monitor the progress of your quotas as new data is collected. The examples are shown in Analyse and Vista 6. This simple yet complete…

Knowledge base updates

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Below a quick introduction to the latest articles added to our Knowledge base by our tech support team. Significance Testing for Overlapping & Independent Samples This article gives more information on the situations in which overlapping samples can be sig tested in askiaanalyse. This KB article explains the correct tests to use when testing for significance in independent or overlapping samples. If you are sig testing columns and it’s the case that a respondent belongs to more than one column (e.g. in a multi-coded question or loop summary table) then the…

Brand new online documentation

New online documentation by Askia

We are extremely pleased to announce that we have released our brand new online documentation for our software suite: askiadesign, askiafield and askiaanalysis. You can access these new online assistants here: AskiaDesign Assistant AskiaField Assistant AskiaAnalysis Assistant This major update of our documentation was led by Tim Macer and Andrew Walford from Meaning Ltd and offers many new features: New help authoring tool We replaced our old help system (farewell RoboHelp!) and are now using a new web-based help authoring tool that allows us to easily update and…

Freshly infused knowledge base articles

In case you missed them, here is a recap of the latest batch of freshly pressed Knowledge base articles, directly extracted from Askia’s Help Centre. Highlight row and column header in question tables This one is a little treat for survey designers looking to sweeten the look and feel of their question tables.This comes along with a nice buy 1 million youtube views guide for you bussines. Thanks to a couple of css classes and a jQuery script, row and column headers will change colour when their associated cells are hovered.…

New in the Knowledge Base

New in the Knowledge Base

We’ve recently added a host of new articles to Askia’s Help Centre, for those of you who haven’t had the time to check them out, here’s a breakdown of the new Knowledge Base posts: Survey intros & outros Survey intros (AskiaIntro) & outros (AskiaOutro) have been specifically designed for askiavoice CATi interviewing. They allow users to add an intro and/or an outro section to their survey. The AskiaIntro section will be asked to the respondent for each contact (once per call) and can therefore be used to screen our respondent.…

Version 5.3.4.0: askiadesign

Askiadesign update 5.3.4.0

This post is the first in a series of two that detail the key features of version 5.3.4.0 of askiadesign & askiaanalyse. In askiadesign 5.2.2, we introduced new controls into our library, the ADC (Askia Design Controls). It gives you the possibility to select which controls you would like to use on your web screen and simply drag and drop the selected control onto the screen.  Each one of these ADCs is shipped with many settings that will allow you to fine-tune and customise the rendering of the…

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…

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…