Snap XMP Desktop release notes

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Build 12.17

Release date: 7th January 2024

Features

  • SD-541 – New images and image maps available for distribution

Fixes

  • SD-525 – Help option within Map control editor linked to website
  • SD-528 – Allow screen outs to explicitly ignore the global target
  • SD-529 – Save as template in Online overview results in error
  • SD-539 – Return error value to Snap XMP Online when reports are greater than the maximum number of pages
  • SD-542 – Non-native time picker to display seconds. (This requires Javascript Interviewer 614 or above)

Build 12.16

Release date: 12th October 2023

Features

  • SD-485 / JS-200: New ribbon for compound grids with option to set relative widths
  • SD-505: Native time picker allows seconds
  • SD-507: Allow variables to be excluded from randomisation blocks (to keep titles at the top)
  • SD-514: Responsive images: automatically resize when the window is resized

Fixes

  • SD-510: Prevent crash with quotas containing a weight
  • SD-511: Fix Done and Cancel buttons on data import (for when quotas are present)
  • SD-512: Recompile group variables based on a range of variables when new variables present in the range
  • SD-516: Variables with an initial value cannot be used in a db import
  • SD-517: Rim weights not rebuilding correctly

Build 12.15

Release date: 3rd August 2023

Fixes

  • SD-493: Internal date stamp can be wrong for email imports within Snap XMP Online
  • SD-506: Potential to create new data file if open fails

Build 12.14

Release date: 28th June 2023

Features

  • SD-487: Email alert overview dialog to show alert status
  • SD-488: Allow first/last for Chart analyses,as well as Tables
  • SD-473: Add randomise functionality

Fixes

  • SD-481: Data Entry shows Er for calculated variables with pattern
  • SD-484: W3C publish – Remove image checkboxes and offset drop down focus border
  • SD-486: Oversized fonts in the chart designer with hi res
  • SD-492: Improve quantity validation
  • SD-494: Warn on publish if using JSI only features with legacy interview set
  • SD-495: Issues with some grid layouts in Firefox
  • SD-499: Analysis dialog slow to open when looking for embedded styles
  • SD-502: Remove VC++ 2010 redistributable

Build 12.13

Release date: 30th March 2023

Features

  • SD-472: Max width setting added for drop downs (for better small screen display)
  • SD-476: Option to set placeholder font colour
  • SD-477: Option to import downloaded responses (including from WebHost)

Fixes

  • SD-425: Additional fix for rounding numbers in question reports & data view
  • SD-466: SPSS and SSS survey imports do not import the data
  • SD-467: Summary report default max label length adjusted
  • SD-474: Delete data warning now includes message about attachIt files
  • SD-475: Crash loading survey with large table stored in processed data file (snpdf)
  • SD-478: Crash running DB link with incorrect variable references
  • SD-479: Sniff import can lose the show as draggable grid option (via Online Editor)

Build 12.12

Release date: 3rd January 2023

Features

  • Option to set scanned images folder added to Tailor dialog
  • SD-450: Snap 11 surveys to use JSI on upgrade
  • SD-451: Option to use cell value in cell threshold as well as cell count
  • SD-453: Show placeholder text added to open ended variables
  • SD-458: Delete participants using online db link functionality added

Fixes

  • SD-61: Cancel after scan fails to tidy up correctly
  • SD-447: Row highlight to highlight all parts of compound grid
  • SD-448: SnapOnline URL truncated incorrectly causing desktop sync to fail
  • SD-449: Template fields lost after sniff imports (incl copy/paste)
  • SD-452: Export of literal data to Excel CSV allows formulas to be evaluated in Excel
  • SD-457: Remove requirement to set a device name in MFA

Build 12.11

Release date: 22nd September 2022

Features

  • SD-407: Export and archive direct from Online survey overview
  • SD-416: Import survey or template from an offline version direct from Online survey overview
  • SD-417: Paste into grid label from Word to create multiple grid rows
  • SD-426: New Compound Grids lets you combine multiple grids together

Fixes

  • SD-245: Cannot create folder in shared ‘Your work’
  • SD-418: Number picker not working as expected with legacy interviewer option
  • SD-424: Rim weight incorrect when filter applies
  • SD-425: Always round up numbers rather than use Bankers rounding
  • SD-439: Semantic style question doesn’t update grid label text when translation file applied

Build 12.10

Release date: 4th July 2022

Please note that build 12.9 has not been released

Features

Fixes

  • SD-353: Variable data lengths not always correct in SPSS and SSS
  • SD-385: support nested comments in html alerts when removing comments
  • SD-387: patterns containing spaces do not always import from sniff properly
  • SD-391: Improve performance of random data generator
  • SD-393: Skip empty records when importing via DBLink
  • SD-394: Panel data import generates new data cases
  • SD-395: Allow seeding of read only questions with no initial value
  • SD-400: Inconsistent behaviour with context values in SOL
  • SD-401: Survey page size setting affected by scaling in windows
  • SD-402: bug in the line breaking routines in the rich text drawing causing issue for Scanning
  • SD-405: context ignored in evaluation of ‘cases(filtered)’
  • SD-411: Alpha ordering with exclude codes fixed in legacy interviewer
  • SD-419: Scanning in more than one case can result in crash

Build 12.9 Not Released

Build 12.8

Release date: 15th February 2022

Features

  • SD-215: Allow ‘Interviewer’ to be mapped in Online DB link

Fixes

  • SD-368: Publish online could crash survey when weak cyclic dependency
  • SD-369: Sync not required after view of analysis
  • SD-370: DB link to Online survey can fail to find survey 
  • SD-372: DBExport link shows error for each case on Sync if cannot find DB
  • SD-373: ID.case can show in questionnaire after edit in online editor
  • SD-377: Cannot set number of decimal places if variable length = 1
  • SD-380: Ordering exclude could affect the wrong codes

Build 12.7

Release date: 6th December 2021

Features

  • SD-294: New option added to limit chart label lengths to ensure they fit
  • Accessibility improvements to the survey templates provided with Snap XMP Desktop including changes to the default question number appearance, navigation buttons and check boxes.

Fixes

  • SD-209: Circular image map focus now shown in the correct place
  • SD-309: When creating a new quota or upgrading a Snap 11 survey, the target would default to 0 rather than unlimited
  • SD-314: Insert Custom HTML refinement to allow URLs to be specified within content
  • SD-330: Option to show ‘Counts’ column in Tailor | Variable details respected
  • SD-333: Drag/drop grid not working when underlying style is drop down
  • SD-334: Crash cloning survey with data – offline overview
  • SD-340: Initial values set to be read only when upgrading to 12.6
  • SD-345: Image maps not working in iOS
  • SD-346: Setting a Survey Pak into Edit mode caused Snap XMP Desktop to crash
  • SD-351: Clear text grid content when rows or columns are reduced
  • SD-352: Triple-s export not padding multi response variables
  • SD-359: Code masking on grids with code labels showing mid grid causes layout problems

Build 12.6

Release date: 4th October 2021

Features

  • SD-243: Preview on Desktop now uses the default browser
  • SD-292: Database links to surveys in Online overview now possible (cannot be a hotlink)
  • SD-296: unique ID added to all responses: id.case paradata (can be used in a database link to uniquely identify a case)
  • SD-305: Option to set base year for 2 digit years
  • SD-309: Quotas
  • SD-318: Option to set header level in Notes styles (accessibility)

Fixes

  • SD-286: Dynamic initial values can be overridden. Read only initial values cannot
  • SD-209: Slider in wrong place in Slider bar
  • SD-289: Could not cancel download on a survey with a version conflict
  • SD-291: Copy/paste text from Excel into Welsh edition loses some characters
  • SD-312: Routing remains on code after variable changed and code no longer exists
  • SD-315: Error message colour contrast adjusted
  • SD-322: Crash in DE of upgraded survey in Online overview
  • SD-325: Row highlight hides image map

Build 12.5

Release date: 21st June 2021

Features

  • SD-192: List analyses implement base and cell threshold
  • SD-199/206/209: Aria labels added for accessibility
  • SD-227: New insert option for reports, notes etc “Cases (filtered)”
  • SD-238: Add title to new (online) survey dialog and clone dialog
  • SD-250: Ignore Must answer option added to DE
  • SD-251: PNG transparency option (Blended/Masked) added to Advanced tailoring dialog

Fixes

  • SD-180: Delete warning enhanced plus extra warning for shared survey
  • SD-189: Hot link with filter often exports nothing when adding new cases (export to file)
  • SD-217: Read only attribute results in seeded values not in response data
  • SD-233: Rating check error message not multi language
  • SD-234: Only one login.htm in multi edition publish
  • SD-235: Native data picker not working when variable is multi line
  • SD-241: Set max literal length (9999)
  • SD-245: Shared folders within ‘My work’ shown at wrong level
  • SD-247: Sliderbar focus highlight redrawn issue iOS (iphone)
  • SD-248: Cannot select all values in a slider bar
  • SD-259: Calculated field shows as Error if the calculation results in a different type eg literal->number
  • SD-273: Plain text only edition resulted in no interview
  • SD-275: Style changes can result in duplicate code values

Build 12.4

Release date: 10th November 2020

Fixes

  • SD-193: Cell ref label only shows row labels if they are overtyped
  • SD-195: Add font fallbacks for Ethiopic and Persian scripts
  • SD-197: Import data from SPSS file when GetNumberOfCases returns -1
  • SD-198: Publish can create msf for hidden edition

Build 12.3

Release date: 18th September 2020

Features

  • SD-127: New ordering option for code labels: ‘Alphabetic’
  • SD-150: Order exclude list for sorting, so you can exclude multiple codes that don’t have to be consecutive
  • SD-167: Set semantic style variables to be ordinal for analysis
  • SD-169: Dialog added to notify when Snap XMP Desktop is out of sync with server
  • 3675: SPSS is now an optional add on feature
  • 4037: Decorated date patterns added for scanning edition

Fixes

  • SD-152: Variable with calculated source in Snap 11 upgraded to Derived variable
  • SD-164: Relative paths sorted for Excel files and survey links
  • SD-166: Potential crash with list analysis of autocat variable if there is no data
  • SD-171: Client install wasn’t installing Reference pak or sample surveys
  • SD-172: Installer always installs Reference pak
  • SD-174: Title not saved when creating a survey in offline overview
  • SD-179: Native data picker not compatible with system date patterns
  • SD-182: Client install could look in wrong location for Reference.pak

Build 12.2

Release date: 9th July 2020

Features

  • SD-153: Enable group questionnaires and ensure ‘Subject’ is mapped

Fixes

  • SD-168: Crash running a report to Html
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