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Using Snap e-viewer to share your results

If you have created many tables and charts in Snap there is a quick and easy way to share them with colleagues and clients. You can export them to a Snap e-results Viewer file, and then give other people that file, which they can then look at using the free, downloadable Snap e-viewer.

Analyses in e-viewer

This worksheet show how to use tables and charts you have created in batch instructions, and then run the batch to generate a single file containing all your table and charts. For simplicity, it uses the sample crocodile survey supplied with Snap. It assumes that you have already created the tables and charts you wish to share.

Background

The Snap e-results viewer provides a means for your colleagues, clients and other stakeholders to view electronically tables and charts produced by Snap. You can create any number of analyses, put them in a batch and then export the whole batch to the e-Results format (in a file with the extension .snr).

A batch is a series of instructions. The instructions can consist of tables, charts or set up of data. There is a worksheet on using batches to apply a single break to multiple tables that shows more complex ways of using batches.

Step 1: Creating your batch to export

  1. Open the snCrocodile survey supplied with Snap.
  2. Click to display the Batches Window.

    Empty batch window

  3. Click to create a new batch. The batch dialog window opens showing a batch with a default name and with a table instruction that has been added by default.
  4. In the Batch Details dialog, give the batch a name (Snap generates a name beginning BT by default) and a description in the Label field.
  5. Leave other settings as they are.

Step 2: Dragging and dropping charts and tables into the batch

  1. Click to open the Results Window as well as your batch details window. The crocodile survey contains several sample tables and charts

    Drag a table to a batch window

  2. Select the table or chart in the Results window that you wish to add to the batch (AN5 in the example) and drag it over the Batch window.

    As the mouse pointer is dragged over the batch it changes according to where the cursor is positioned.

    inserts the new item above the current one.

    inserts the new item below the current one.

  3. Insert the analysis above the empty table created by default.
  4. Now you have added something to the batch, you can delete the empty table. Select it and click .
  5. Drag any other required analyses across. (The example adds AN10, AN9 and AN7.)
  6. Click to save the batch.

Step 3: Running the batch

  1. Highlight the batch in the Batches Window and click .

    Batch window showing EV_year batch only

  2. A Batch Execution dialog box is displayed. Click [Check] to make sure that all the tables and charts you have added are working analyses.

    If the Range of Instructions is left empty, all instructions in the batch will be run.

  3. Change the Output to e-Results.
  4. Click [OK]. The file details dialog will open.

    e-Results file details dialog

  5. Set the filename to something useful. The Overwrite/Append radio buttons allow you to append analyses to the end of an existing file, or overwrite the whole file with new data. The View File check box causes the file to be displayed after the batch has been run. Leave them in the default states and click [OK].
  6. The batch will process and be displayed in the e-Results viewer.

    Analyses in e-viewer

Step 4: Sharing the results

You can now send the file to a colleague (via email, local network or any other system). If they already have a copy of Snap they can double-click the file to open it in the e-viewer. If they do not have a copy of Snap, they can download the free e-Results viewer from the Snap website at http://www.snapsurveys.com/software/.