What’s New In HyperRESEARCH 3.7.1?
Version 3.7.1 offers these new features and enhancements:
• Filter cases and code references by source file, as well as individually, by code, and by code relationships
• The new Study Packager tool makes it easier to store, back up, and exchange entire studies (including their sources)
• The Mixed Methods Importer tool takes your survey data from a spreadsheet and automatically builds a study you can integrate with your qualitative data
• Stability improvements
Filtering By Source
Previous versions of HyperRESEARCH could filter code references and cases by a variety of criteria, letting you choose just part of your study for analysis and reporting while temporarily hiding the rest. Version 3.7.1 adds the ability to filter both cases and code references by source file, so you can examine just the parts of your study that use source files you select.
To filter cases by source file, choose Cases Filter ► Cases By Source. From the list of sources, choose the source or sources you want to focus on, then click Select. With the filter active, only the cases that use those sources are accessible, and only those cases are used in reporting and analysis tools.
To filter code references by source file, choose Codes Filter ► Codes By Source, then choose a source or sources. When you click Select, only code references from those sources are shown; code references from other sources are temporarily hidden, and are not used in reporting and analysis tools.
For more information about using filters, see the Filtering Cases and Filtering and Sorting Code References topics in the User Guide, or Help that comes with HyperRESEARCH 3.7.1.
New Study Packager tool
The Study Packager automatically creates a single compressed file out of a study file plus its sources.
You can copy this file to another location (such as a thumb drive or server) to make a backup or to carry your whole study to another location. Or you can email the file, put it on a shared drive, or copy it in order to send it to a colleague. Since it's packaged as a single file, this ensures that all parts of the study—including sources—will be kept together.
To use the Study Packager, choose Tools ► Study Packager. Use the Package My Study tab to make the open study into a single package.
To turn a package back into a study, click the Open Study Package tab. You can either close the current study file and open the one in the package, or merge the study in the package with your currently-open study file.
For more information about the Study Packager, see the Study Packager topic in the User Guide, or Help that comes with HyperRESEARCH 3.7.1.
New Mixed Methods Importer tool
The Mixed Methods Importer builds a complete study from a spreadsheet file (typically containing survey data). This lets you take a quantitative study such as a survey and build a qualitative file from it. You can then analyze the data, or perform additional coding on the source material. (For example, you can let the tool automatically code closed responses, then code open-ended responses by hand.)
To use the Mixed Methods Importer tool, choose Tools ► Mixed Methods Importer.
For more information about the Mixed Methods Importer tool, see Mixed Methods Importer: Introduction in the User Guide, or Help that comes with HyperRESEARCH 3.7.1.
More changes and enhancements
HyperRESEARCH 3.7.1 includes a variety of cosmetic and functional enhancements, including the following:
• In the Sources List, you can now specify a new location for any source file if the file has been moved or renamed.
• Code names can now include almost all characters, including international and accented characters.
• In the Movie and Audio Source window, you can now directly set the current time and the start and end of the selected segment, by clicking the times above the movie or audio player.
Enter the hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds to set the start or end of the selected segment, or the time to start playing.
• When using the Edit ► Find command in a source window, the found text is now selected and ready to code.
• Improved handling when you try to save a file that has been moved or renamed while it’s open, or which is no longer available (for example, on a thumb drive which has been removed).
• The Frequency Report tool now gives the count for only filtered references, instead of all references, when the Only Filtered Codes and Cases option is selected.
• You can now select and copy text from the Help window and from the Error Report window (which we hope you will never see).
• For site license administrators, the command-line installation option no longer requires a chmod command after installing HyperRESEARCH on OS X. The application is now automatically made executable during the installation. (For more information about command-line installation, see Installation and Requirements in the User Guide, or Help that comes with HyperRESEARCH 3.7.1.)
Improvements in source file handling:
• If a source file has been moved, HyperRESEARCH now checks the study file’s folder (and all its subfolders), as well as the location of other source files in the study, to see whether it can be found. You will be asked to locate the file only if HyperRESEARCH can’t find it in any of these locations.
This makes reorganizing your source files in subfolders, and moving your entire study between computers, much easier. Most of the time, you will no longer be asked where a source file is. Instead, HyperRESEARCH will find and use it automatically for you.
• HyperRESEARCH now checks whether a source file has changed since it was last used. If it has been changed, it warns you and offers an opportunity to locate the correct version of the file.
• When adding a folder of sources in the Sources List window, HyperRESEARCH now adds all source types—not just text. It also offers the option to add files from all subfolders, not just the top level of the folder.
Changes to handling HyperTRANSCRIBE files:
• If you open a HyperTRANSCRIBE source file and its media file can’t be found, HyperRESEARCH now automatically looks for it in the folder that the HyperTRANSCRIBE file is in, along with its subfolders.
• If the media file’s location has changed, and HyperRESEARCH locates it—either automatically or by asking you where it is—it offers to update the media file’s location stored in the HyperTRANSCRIBE file. This means that when you open the file in HyperTRANSCRIBE, it will not need to ask where the media file is.
Improvements to Word Counter tool:
• Word Counter now counts words automatically when opened.
• Click a word to temporarily remove it from the count, to add it to the list of words to ignore, autocode it, or search all text sources for it.
• Statistics have been added in both the Cloud View and the List View: total words, total sources in the count, and total occurrences of the selected word(s).
• In the Settings dialog box, you can restore the default settings.
• The Word List and Word Cloud can now be printed.
Stability and study integrity improvements:
• HyperRESEARCH now automatically fixes corrupted annotations if it finds them when opening a study.
• Annotations for duplicate code references are now merged.
• Code references in the study window and source window are now synchronized.
• New QA Logger feature lets you create a diagnostic report for use by technical support.
• Adding a source now results in asking you to save when quitting or closing a study.
• The Import Other Studies command now does a better job with the Free Limited Edition.
• Saving setting files now requires the correct extension.
Bug fixes:
• A problem that sometimes resulted in missing text when printing the source window has been fixed.
• The Report Builder now sorts correctly by code.
• A problem which occasionally caused the Annotation box to be locked out has been fixed.
• Various minor problems have been addressed.
Updating from a previous version
If you’re updating from version 3.0 or later, you can simply install HyperRESEARCH 3.7.1 and continue working. If you have any questions or comments before or after updating to version 3.7.1, please contact Researchware's tech support team.
Updating from version 2.0 or later:
If you’ve used an earlier version of HyperRESEARCH (2.0 through 3.03), you can continue to use your existing files in this new version. Simply open the study file as usual and resume working.
Note: When you open a study file that was last saved in version 2.0–2.6, HyperRESEARCH automatically converts the file to the new version’s format. First, it makes a backup copy of the original file. (The backup copy has the same name as the original, with the phrase “-v2.6backup” added to the name.) This is a precaution to ensure that if there’s any problem converting the file, you still have the original file available. Once you're confident that your study is working in the new version, you can throw away the backup file.
Updating from versions before 2.0:
If you have study files that were created in a version of HyperRESEARCH earlier than 2.0, please contact support@researchware.com for help converting them to use in the new version.