Decipher (previously Decipher) M37 Technical Release Notes

This document contains the technical release notes for the Decipher M37 (2017) milestone.

Release Date: April 11, 2017

Mission Statement

New survey compat level is 137. Use compat="137" for all new surveys. This enables:

• New <themes> tag

• Dynamically setting gv.survey.root.styles.ss.includeLESS is no longer allowed

New Features

Reusable Answer Lists

• Allows users to establish an answer list for use in multiple survey questions.

• Allows users to control answer options and apply updates to several questions at once.

• List creation option appears in both the Element Library and the "Row Actions" menu within the Survey Editor for easy application.

Survey XML Importing: Forsta Plus Conversion & Decipher

• Allows users to import both Decipher and Forsta Plus survey XML files directly to the portal.

• Incompatible elements are flagged for user review.

Quota Reassignment

• Speeds up edit process by automatically checking quota tables for changed cells.

• Decreases risk for live changes by flagging quota changes for user review.

Nested Loops

• Allows users to expose their participants to a repeated series of questions with different variables piped in.

• Adds two stacked data download options when nested loops are created.

Project Parameters

• Allows users to design their own fully-customizable structured tags in the Decipher portal.

Reporting

Crosstabs

• Improved performance for projects loading large grid tables.

• Improved performance on the report optimizer to reduce load times for questions with a large number of answer options.

Field Report

• Quotas downloaded to Excel will now include the quota sheet and table name.

Survey

• The question attribute valuesnow accepts the reverse option. This option excludes explicit value answers first.

Survey Editor

• Improvements to loading times.

• The following templates are now available on all servers:

  • Copy Test (requires compat 134 or below for DQ version)

  • Concept Test

  • Pricing Study

  • Employee Satisfaction

  • Customer Satisfaction

• Updates to <note> and <condition> tags for warnings system:

  • Using builder:warning="unsupported" will flag a conditioned element as unsupported and prevent project launch.

  • Using builder:title on a <note> can be used to identify the element when using the live script.  

Programming & Tools

• Enabled use of gv.survey.replaceVariables() in secure surveys

• The tsst script now ignores custom style overrides in the project’s nstyles file by default; new --style option can be added to force the tsst script to evaluate them.  Requires Decipher Cloud

• When using wildcards (e.g., "/*/something"), hasMarker performance  is now 20 times as fast.

• Added the ability to access data layout information via the API. See our API documentation for more details.  

• New <themes> tag added to allow for using multiple themes in a survey.

Technical Notes

• The basic server memory footprint increased by 7% or 47 megabytes, which accounts for 0.3% of the level-1 cloud server.

Bug Fixes

Survey Editor

• Fixed an issue where extra ‘span’ tags would be inserted into the text for response options

• Fixed an issue with the Survey Editor removing elements referencing adb datasources

• Fixed an issue where sortRows did not support unicode characters

• Fixed an issue where long sample source names would overlap

• Fixed an issue where the "new" icon in the Survey Editor would not show correctly when using Internet Explorer v11

• Survey edit locks are now saved in database

Survey

• Fixed an issue where [pipe]s were not accessible within a <loop>

• Fixed an issue with incorrect sub-loop label access via loopvar:label

• Fixed an issue with the translation of loop variables within nested loops

• Added support for unicode when using sortRows

• Fixed an issue where the system could fail while attempting to synchronize plus markers across different sheets; plus markers are now synchronized per sheet

Language Manager

• Added error message display when an upload fails

• Fixed an issue with the “Add Language” button disappearing

• Improved performance when collapsing and expanding duplicate translations

Dynamic Questions

• Fixed an issue with the Image Uploader which would allow image files over 5 MB in size to be uploaded

• Fixed an issue with the Image Uploader where you could continue without using the ‘No Answer’ option

• Fixed an issue where the Audio Player 3 DQ would not play in Chrome on an Android device

• Fixed an issue with padding for the Media Evaluator

Campaign Manager

• Fixed an issue with bulk email sends where they would hang when bulkagent would fail

• Fixed an issue with encoding detection when uploading .txt files

• Fixed an issue where the Campaign Manager would not close all files after using them, causing the application to crash

Crosstabs

• Fixed an issue with the PDF export not displaying counts

• Fixed an issue with stacked data options not displaying for a project with nested loops

• Fixed an issue where errors were shown for logic reuse when logic is mutually exclusive

Responses Report

• Records that fail to load are now skipped

Data Downloads

• Changed range for Triple S Download to 1-9999999

Programmer Tools

• The tsst script will now ignore any XML style overrides unless the --style flag is used

• Fixed an issue with surveys failing to relaunch when using datasource keys based off of optional questions

Architecture/Dev Tools

• Improved participant view performance by serving files from CDN; especially noticeable for out-of-country users or those with slow connections

CATI

• Fixed an issue where the CATI server would sometimes fail to restart during nightly main server restarts