M39 Technical Release Notes

Release Date: June 16, 2018

New survey compat level is 139. Using compat="139" for surveys enables the following:

• Language value validation when using the mls attribute
• IP address is no longer tracked when a survey contains a sample source. To collect IP address, ipAddress must be declared as a survey extraVariable
• CAPI / Panel Offline surveys now collect participant geolocation data and device ID's

New Features

CAPI 3.0

• This new version of CAPI includes the following features:

  • The ability to collect geolocation participant data in compat 139+ surveys

  • The ability to collect device ID information in compat 139+ surveys

  • A progress bar in participant view for app-enabled projects

  • A new loading screen after starting a survey and viewing the first element

  • Support for using 'rel' and 'image' formats for survey image sources

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GDPR Compliance

• IP address collection in all surveys compat 139 and newer will be disabled by default. This can be turned back on in the survey's field settings

Survey

• Adding an invalid language via the mls attribute will display an error for compats 139+

Bug Fixes

Reporting

Downloads

• Fixed an issue where noanswer text was not showing within Excel

• Fixed an issue where the first noanswer element in a Triple-S export was different than subsequent noanswer elements

Survey

CAPI 3.0

• Fixed an issue where ad-hoc interviewers were unable to save survey languages

• Added a limit of 5MB in payload size for offline projects to limit server load

• Fixed an issue where the pipeMultiple attribute would not work in offline surveys

Programming & Tools

API

• Fixed an issue where adding a datasource with datasource PUT calls was causing a data mismatch error in reporting for compats 139+

• Fixed an issue where mixed-case data was not properly appending to a datasource with POST datasource data calls for compats 139+