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Greetings, Ana.

I can't reproduce the first problem, with shortcuts resetting the size to the default. For me, if I enter a shortcut and then type something, the following text is in the same size as the shortcut. The only thing I can think of is that there is some character in your shortcut that's triggering the problem - is this at all possible, do you think? Does the same problem happen if you make a new shortcut by copying and pasting a single character from your transcript?

We were aware of the problem with Page Setup and this will be fixed in the upcoming release.

I can't reproduce the problem with using Tab after inserting a time code here. Does it just fail to work, or do you get any sort of error message? Are you pressing Tab right after you insert the time code, or typing something first? Also, does the same thing happen if you use Shift-Space instead of command-Y?

Could I please have any answer about how to fix these issues?

Changing the font size should be a relatively simple thing, but when I insert timestamps in my transcriptions it changes the size font to 11 for that point forward.

Greetings, Ana. This is on our feature list.

In the meantime, here's a workaround: Create a report (making sure to check the "Annotation" box) and click Display. You can search in the report display window to find the annotation text you're looking for, then click the blue link to select that code reference in the study window.

Hi,

I write a lot of notes with the annotate feature and need to run a search across these annotations. It seems that I can only run a search in the source files, is this so? How can I run a search in the annotate fields?

Thank you.

Ana Cardoso

There's no way at the moment to retain scale, but it should be possible to add it as a feature.

Would it be more useful to set a default scale for all images? Or to have HyperResearch remember the scale for each image source you use?

Unfortunately, HyperRESEARCH only uses absolute file paths. However, if you have all your source files in the SAME folder on your DropBox, as you move between computers, you will only have to update the location once each time. When you open you study on Computer #1 and display a source, you will be asked to locate it. Once you find it on your Dropbox, you will be asked if ALL your sources are located there. if they are, say yes, and HyperRESEARCH will update the paths to all your sources. Then when you move to Computer #2 and open you Study, display a single source (by clicking on a code for example) and you will be asked to locate it. Do so, and again click "yes" to all your sources being in that location.

Will all sources in a common folder, you will only need to update the location by locating that folder once each time you switch between computers.

Hi. I was REALLY excited to see that I can run HyperRESEARCH from a USB drive. I have a few computers, and I'd like to be able to code on at least two of them: Home and Office. I had hoped to put the portable files in a Dropbox folder and run Hyper from there instead of from a USB. I can run the application just fine. However, the absolute file locations that link a source to its file get in the way. Is there are way to make HyperRESEARCH use relative file locations? I have the same problem when I run from USB, because the USB drive maps to different locations on each computer.

Thanks for any input you might have.

Hello,

I would like to know how I can change the automatic scale of an image when I open an image file or when I click "view source" in HyperResearch. I’d like to change it from 100% to 25% and keep it like that. Is it possible to do that so i won't have to change it everytime I open an image?

Thank you!

I very glad you found the webinar valuable.

Also, sorry for a delay in a response, but questions about coding conversational interviews has come up enough lately that I thought it best to create a small guide on the subject. Please see http://www.researchware.com/support/technical-notes/496-coding-conversational-studies-in-hyperresearch.html in answer to your question and let me know if this explains the approach sufficiently or if you have further questions.

Hello,

First - thank you for the helpful online tutorial. I am wondering about structuring the codes for my project. I will use cases for each of my interviews. I would first like to code for 6 or 7 questions across cases (participants). Next, I would like to have subcodes for question responses, which will overlap across questions. For example, Question 1 might be: Did you have pets as a child? and Question 2 might be: Do you currently have pets? "Cat" could be a code applicable for both questions (and more). So, would I have multiple cat codes such as "cat-q1", "cat-q2", etc.? Is there a "better" way to structure these kind of "overlapping" codes? Thanks!

I think this is a case of an expected behavior that is not how HyperRESEARCH works. In following your steps, if I:

1- coded a segment of text (htd file) (say with the code "Sample Code")

"Sample Code is added to me current Case. It is not highlighted. To enter an annotation for this code, I need to click on the code in Study Window. It is now highlighted and I can click on the annotation window and enter an annotation for this code.

2- annotated that coded segment (I do this step)

3- saved my study (I do this step)

4- coded another segment of text (htd file) (say with the code "Another Sample Code")

Observer that while "Another Sample Code" has been added to the current case, the last code you had selected "Sample Code" remains highlighted. If I click in the Annotation window at this point, I see the annotation for the highlighted code "Sample Code" not a blank annotation window for the new code "A Sample Code" that I just added.

After coding your second/next code, you need to select it before annotating. You can do that by clicking on it in the Study window or by pressing the down arrow key to advance the selection to the next code in the current case (i.e. the code just added).

What is wrong with this sequence?

1- coded a segment of text (htd file)

2- annotated that coded segment

3- saved my study

4- coded another segment of text (htd file)

5- tried to annotate this last coded segment, but when I change locus to the annotation field I still can see the previous annotation. Highlight other coded segments and the annotation field does not change.

6- Go back to my first annotated segment, and realize that the annotation actually disappeared! Even though I had saved it!! And I cannot annotate in any other coded segment, except for those that are already annotated...

7- Quit HyperResearch and launched it again. I can annotate again - but the problem persists if I do the sequence 1-2-3-4.

Using HR 3.5.2 in Mac OS

Thank you.

Paul that's a genious idea, it didnt come to my mind.  I have started using it ... And I predict that it's a good strategy to code my data because it gives me flexibility when it comes to outputting reports on the data. 

Paul's right that you can use filtering to avoid having to create umpteen codes. First you'd select the whole conversation and code it, and then you'd use your standard eight codes within the conversation to code its dynamic. So you'd have the original eight, plus one code for each conversation - not eight times the number of conversations.

You can't group cases, but you can choose a subset to work with using filtering. (Filtering cases works more or less the same way as filtering codes.) So you could filter just the conversations that occur in one thread, and do reports and analysis on all the cases that deal with that one thread.

But part of this also depends on whether your main task is to analyze the conversations individually, or to compare conversations, or to compare threads. For example, you might ask "Does Dynamic A show up more in this thread than in this one?" Or "When Dynamic E appears in a conversation, is Dynamic B likely to also appear in this conversation?" The first is a comparison between threads, the second a comparison between conversations. (Of course, you might also be asking both types of question.)

Thank you for your reply.

regarding your first approach, this would make more sense if I could group cases, since I have 78 cases, with anywhere from 2-10 conversations inside.  Otherwise, there are going to be a lot of cases, some with only few comments each (since the conversations inside can be just a one time correspondence between two people)

Regarding your second approach, this is what I had in mind initially, only the number of codes required are very high (8 codes * the number of convo layers).  Sometimes, there can be up to 10 individual interactions with one case, which means I need 80 codes!  I sounds counter intuitive for me, what do you think?

My objective is to analyze the dynamic is of the conversations I have in hand, based on two frameworks that amount to the 8 codes.  Therefore I need a setup that will allow me to map each case with all its codes and relationships ( which comment is replying to who's)

I appreciate the help, thanks!

Greetings, Soran.

There are a number of ways to approach this, but one thought is whether it might make sense for you to make each conversation a case. This would make it very easy to isolate a conversation (or a set of them) for analysis and reporting. (You can use the same source file for more than one case, so this wouldn't pose a structural problem.)

Another possibility is to code each conversation (as a whole) with a conversation-specific code, and then use your eight codes for each comment within the conversation. This would let you use filtering to obtain (for example) all the comments coded X within conversation Y, using "Filter By Criteria".

A great deal depends on what kinds of results you'll need. (For example, will you want to compare the conversations with each other?) More details will help me offer better advice.

Hello, 

so I'm coding a multi-layered thread.  By multi layered thread, I mean a thread just like this one, however many people can respond to questions that are asked in the thread, instead of a conversation between only the person answering the question and the person answering. Therefore, there ends up being many different conversations taking place in one thread.  Considering that each thread is a case on its own, each case consistis of multiple conversation.  As part of my research I need to be able to identify and code for all those conversations in a given case.  So my question is, is there a feature in hyperresearch that allows me distinguish between multiple conversations in one case? Or set up some sort of a relationship map between the comments in a thread? Or a heiriarichal structure to the comments?

i know that I can create code manually for whatever I need in hyperresearch, but given that I have to choose from a possible of 8 codes for each comment in a given conversations, the number of codes needed for several conversations that consist of several comments each will be way plenty.  

Any recommendations?  Or alternatives .... 

Thanks a bunch 

hi Ann!

Thank you for your prompt reply! I will submit a ticket with the file.

When I say that HyperRESEARCH doesn't "see" the file,yes, I mean that it's not showing up at all in the list of files in the selected folder when I use the Sources --> Open Text File... command. While other files are showing up and selectible, that specific file is not showing up.

Then, I solved the problem this way: I saved the web page with the Save Page As... command from within Firefox. I got a plain text file with a .html extension. Now the file is showing up and I could open it with the Sources --> Open Text File... command.

Anyway, I will submit a ticket with the file I could not open.

Many thanks again,

Greetings, Marisa. Sorry that you're having this problem!

Can you send the file to technical support, by choosing "Contact Technical Support" under the "Support" menu on the website? (I don't see it attached to your message.) This makes sure we get it into our system.

We'll take a look at it right away - I'm sure there's a simple solution.

Hi, Marisa!

I don't think we have the forums set up to accept attached files (due to security reasons).

Can you please submit a support ticket, and include a copy of the file with your report?

You can submit a ticket online here: http://www.researchware.com/support/get-support.html

Please use the "Attachment" / Choose File button at the bottom of the support form to attach your file so we can take a look at it.

When you say that HyperRESEARCH doesn't "see" the file, do you mean that it's not showing up at all in the list of files in that folder when you use the Sources --> Open Text File... command? or is the file name greyed out and not selectable?

If the former, please double-check that the file was saved correctly into that folder, with the ".rtf" file extension to the name.

Hello,

I use HR version 3.5.2 nd I have never experienced a problem so far. This evening I tried to open a text file but I couldn't because HR does not seem to "see" the file. The file is in a folder with alla the other text files opened so far. I don't understand what's wrong. It is a .RTF document.

I cut and paste the text from a web page into a word document and saved at as .RTF. I did it all the time and never had problems.

I attached the file for you to have a look.

I appreciate your help!

Marisa

You may want to review out article on Working Collaboratively at http://www.researchware.com/support/technical-notes/167-working-collaboratively.html. To answer you question more fully, I would need to know:

Are you both working from a common Code Book (do you each have the same set of master codes or are you respective code books different?)

Are you each coding all the same sources? Or have you divided your source material up between the two of you? If you are coding the same sources, is this intended for intercoder reliability and validation purposes?

What is the structure of your two study files? (i.e. is each Source coded to a single Case? or are multiple Source documents coded to a given Case?)

With some added information, we can advise more specifically. Also, if you ever need an urgent response to a support question, please submit a support tickets using the form at http://www.researchware.com/support/get-support.html.

Unfortunately, the Resize by Frequency feature of the Code Map tool currently (as of version 3.5.2) only resizes any map codes by their frequency across the entire study. I have entered an enhancement request to add this capability in a future version.

As a work around, you could save a COPY of you study (File > Save As...) and delete cases but the first case and then choose Resize By Frequency for the Code Map. Then Open your ORIGINAL study file and save another COPY and delete all cases by the second case and choose Resize By Frequency for the Code Map. And repeat for each case.

Hi Jeanne

Good to hear that an audit trail function is in the works.  An additional thought occured about the audit trail type date/stamp, as well the functionality mentioned, it would probably be worth including some means recording date/time for when a particular segment of text/video/audio/image etc is coded.

Regarding the report - the additional info you suggest would be useful too.  maybe include too the report critertia filename if you are using a pre-saved report.

Regards

Nick

Greetings, Nick. Adding tracking/audit data to code references is in the works, although it will require a file format change.

Adding a date stamp to a report is something we can do sooner. Any other items that would be useful here? (Name of the study, perhaps, and the name of the report settings file if any.)

Would it be possible to include date and time stamps, typically created and modified, for Codes and Annotations?  So when a new code is created in the codebook a Created: Date and Time automatically appears in the Description window.  Similarly Modified: Date and Time automatically appears when the Code is modified in some way eg Renamed or the Description is modified.  Same process for Annotation window.  At the moment do this manually.

It would also be useful for a Created: Date / Time stamp to appear in Reports - the output rather than when a report is set up.  At the moment do this by immediately transfering output file to Word and inserting File Information.

Main reason for requesting this is that it provides an audit trail for when codes were created and modified in the coding cycle - something which seems increasingly important in certain types of qualitative analysis/ writing up.

Nicholas

Thanks Paul for pointing this functionality out - something I have missed!  Works great.

If there were to be a review of the HR user interface it might be more logical to put some kind of search facility on the Source window - just a thought.

Nicholas

Hi, Kasio. The .docx files should work fine. (If you can find time to send us the file, we can check it and see whether there's a problem that might be causing this to happen.)

Do you see any other problem with this study? Or only when you open the Sources List?

Please contact Tech Support with details of the problem. Attach a copy of your current study file to your support request.

Also, if you ever get an Execution Error when using our software, please click the Report button. That will send us specific information that will help us determine what went wrong when you encountered the error.

Thank you!

Unfortunately, intalling the latest version didn't solve the problem. It still shuts up when I open Sources List Windows... or maybe not when I open it. When I want to press something within the window.

Hi, Kasio!

You may be encountering an issue with the Sources List window we discovered in version 3.5.1. Our apologies!

The Sources List Window issue has been fixed in HyperRESEARCH version 3.5.2, which we released this week.

Please download and install the latest version (3.5.2) and let us know if that solves the problem.

http://researchware.com/support/get-latest-version-hr.html

In a very few cases, the Sources List problems may result in a damaged study file, which we can fix for you. Contact tech support if you need any further assistance.

http://researchware.com/support/get-support.html

Hey,

I have a question regarding the Sources List. There is something wrong with the programme, because everytime I want to open the Sources List, my hyperreaserch is closing down! What is the problem? How can I solve it?

I have a Mac version of Hyperresearch 3.5.1.

Please help me somehow, because this is so annoying and I didn't buy this problem to get annoyed. I bought to work...

Use the following:

Select by frame Shift-arrow Shift-arrow Selects the next or previous frame, starting from the play head’s current location. The left arrow selects the next frame, and the right arrow selects the previous frame. If part of the source is already selected, pressing Shift-left arrow or Shift-right arrow extends the selection.

See page 95-96 of the User Guide.

The media source window is also resizable if having a larger window helps with the controller bar. And you move the slider (play position) the current position, start and end of any selection are shown above.

I just downloaded the trial version of HyperResearch for my PC and have a few concerns in tutorial 5. Of the 3 methods Paul provided on selecting video, only the shift-space method works for me. I tried changing options where selections can be coded upon clicking or only after hitting enter.

Also, the finetuning of selection is very confusing. I'm always tempted to use keyboard left and right keys instead of the step left and step right keys. This rotates my screen instead. It's something i will have to get used to but it would be more user friendly if keyboard shortcuts could be used. When i did hit the correct keys, ctrl-alt-step left to add frames to the beginning of a selection, the selection is deselected and any addition or removal of frames is not remembered in the code. Am i doing something wrong? Would appreciate some help.

Thanks,

Sharon

Hello Elaine -

What you're seeing there is the result of the compositing the app is doing for the pulsing default button, which in the Sources window is the "Open Source File" button, as you noted.  This is specific to OS X; other platforms don't consume CPU cycles by animating their default buttons.

You'll see a similar increase in CPU use in even simple apps like Apple's TextEdit - open the app, choose File->Save As, and while the Save As dialog is up if you look in Activity Monitor you'll see CPU usage has jumped from zero for that app to about 8-9%.

While we might take something as seemingly simple as a pulsing default button for granted, under the hood it requires a lot of CPU cycles to maintain that animated effect.  Even Apple's best effort on that in their highly-otimized Save As dialog still takes considerable CPU cycles.

With HyperRESEARCH the percentage is higher than in Apple's TextEdit for a couple reasons, but primarily related to the cross-platform framework we use to deliver a consistent experience for both Mac and Windows.  The team that works on that part of the program has done some optimizations on this already for v3.0 and later, but at this point the difference is small enough that it'll probably be some time before we're in a position to see that one element further optimized.

Note that this CPU spike only occurs when there's one item selected in the list of sources, used to indicate that double-clicking an item in that list or hitting the Enter key will trigger that default button.

When the Source List window is first opened none of the items in that list are selected, and you can clear the selection without closing the window by Cmd-clicking on the selected item. 

Also, the "Open Source File" button is enabled only when there's just one item selected in the list -- you can drag or Shift-click in that list to select multiple items to disable that button if you like.  Those common Mac conventions for altering list selections are also useful when using the "Remove Selected Source from Study" option in the menu above the list.

While Apple's Human Interface Guidelines suggest using the pulising effect to indicate default buttons as we do there, those guidelines are just that, guidelines, so if you feel strongly about the additional CPU usage we may consider suggestions for other means to indicate that default state for the button.

This animated effect is unique to the Mac platform, and while we strive to deliver an experience consistent with the guideliness for each of the OSes HyperRESEARCH runs on, we recognize that sometimes there may be opportunities to improve the experience by going beyond the guidelines if we can find a an alternative that provides a clear benefit in doing so.

Greetings, Elaine. Thanks for the feedback - we'll take a look at this.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of CPU spikes are you seeing? (I do see an increase in CPU usage on our OS X systems when a dialog box with a flashing default button is displayed, but not a huge one.)

This is kind of a small suggestion, but here goes anyway.  I noticed that the battery on my laptop wasn't doing so well, so I took a look at my CPU usage and found that HyperResearch was using a ridiculous amount of my CPU - but I also noticed it was only when I had the sources list open.

I thought it was probably the button that says "Open source file" that flashes when a file is selected, and I'm pretty sure that's it.  CPU usage is normal when the window is closed, or when it's open but there's no file selected so the button's not flashing.  It jumps dramatically as soon as I select a file and the button starts flashing.

It's not really a necessary thing, I mean if it was gone I wouldn't miss it and mope around like "oh gosh I wish that button flashed, I can never find it otherwise".  Basically all it does is run up my CPU usage, make my laptop hotter on my lap, and kill my battery.

So my suggestion: kill the flashing button. 

Jeanne - thank you!!! Your explanation makes so much sense, but I need your explanation to fill in the gaps in my understanding. 

These are standard statistical items that show you how the code is used across cases. Each number is computed from the number of times the code is used in each case.

For example, "Min" is the minimum number of times the code is used. If you have case A (where a code is used 3 times), B (where it's used 5 times), and C (where you used it 4 times), then the "Min" for that code is 3, because it's used at least 3 times in each case. If there are any cases where you didn't use that code at all, then the code's "Min" will be zero.

Max is the maximum number of times the code is used in any case (so in our example above, "Max" would be 5).

The mean is the arithmetic average (so "Mean" would be 4 in this example).

"Std Dev" is the standard deviation, which is a measure of how much deviation there is from the mean. (If you had 3 cases and they all used a certain code 4 times, then the standard deviation for that code would be zero. The more variation in the number of uses per case, the higher the "Std Dev".) Wikipedia has a pretty good article on "Standard deviation", if you want to look up the gory mathematical details. ;-)

There are a number of ways you can use the information. For example, you can use the code frequencies to spot codes that aren't used at all ("Max" of zero) or that aren't used as often as others. The Mean will tell you how often a code is used on average, so codes with a high mean tend to be used often within a case. And if you look for codes with a high Std Dev, these are the ones where there's a lot of variation between cases in how often they're used.

This can give you a lot of comparative data. For example, if you see that the code "Values achievement" has a high standard deviation, this indicates that there's a lot of variation between your study subjects in how much they value achievement.  Or if you see that the code "Family life" has a high max but a low mean, this tells you there may be one or two cases where this code is used very often, but most don't use it as much.

I hope this helps!

I'm working on my dissertation, and I shared a frequency report of my codes with my advisor. She asked me what the Min, Max, Mean, Std Dev indicate. I am showing my qualitative bent/bias here, and I have been studying my codes for a while, but I can't seem to figure of what they indicate. An analysis of the code frequency across cases (sources?)? I'd love to at a glance be able to tell when I see the code frequency - how many sources that code came from, but I am not sure if I can do that with this information. 

Can someone provide me an explanation or each one OR a link to an explanation? I'd also love to see how someone used this information in their analysis/reporting.

Thank you! 

Yes, that is exactly what I want to do.  That way I could compare both ways - one individual against different types of meetings (e.g. to see how often Bob participates in focus groups vs. discussion groups) or one meeting against different individuals (e.g. to see how Jane and Tom compare as to their participation in formal workshops).  Or I could pick out overlaps between one group (i.e. individuals) and a thematic code so I can easily display occurences of anyone talking about bubblegum... who talks about bubblegum the most or whatever.

I'll put together the information you've suggested shortly.

If your source window is selected, you can type CTRL-F (for Find, or CMD-F on OS X) to find text within the current source file. It will highlight the text in a box outline. if you want to code what you found, select the text and select a code and apply or use CTRL-G/CMD-G to find next.

> I've just got one case here though, since this is one cohesive environment that includes a buch of different settings.

Cases are the unit of analysis in HyperRESEARCH and the Case Filter is the primary way to find "cases" that match particular patterns of coding. Having all coding in a single case may limit what you can search for and compare.

> Something else that would be helpful would be if I could filter codes by overlapping groups - for example, I have all my individual people in a code group called Individuals, and I could group my different types of meeting as well.  Then if I could filter based on criteria with Individuals group overlapping Meetings group, I'd be all set.

When you say you want to filter based upon "Individuals" overlapping "Meetings", am I interpreting that correct that you want to find any text where 1 or more codes in "Individuals" overlaps with 1 or more codes in "Meetings"? This could be done, but it's a little complex. If this is what you want to do, it would help if you could send in a support ticket (reference this forum post) and provide the code names in your Individual and Meetings groups. You could do this by just choosing "Export List..." from the "Edit Codes" menu in the Code Book and attached the exported code list.

HR provides a search tool to search across all sources, but would it be possible to have a search tool to just search the text source being coded?  Computers are much more accurate at picking up words/phrases than we humans are so it would save the researcher missing words or phrases.  It would also help as a kind of stop-gap until the suggested improvements to the Autocoding feature are implemented - you could search for a word or phrase within the source and then select text and code if appropriate.  I am of course assuming here that implementing a source search is quick to do!  A simple Search button next to the Font Settings button is what I am looking for.

Nicholas

Sorry for the delay... overstressed PhD student here.

I've just got one case here though, since this is one cohesive environment that includes a buch of different settings.

Something else that would be helpful would be if I could filter codes by overlapping groups - for example, I have all my individual people in a code group called Individuals, and I could group my different types of meeting as well.  Then if I could filter based on criteria with Individuals group overlapping Meetings group, I'd be all set.

Web videos would need to be downloaded (into a format HyperRESEREACH supports, i.e. mp4, m4v, mpg, avi, etc.) and opened as a "Movie or Audio" source. A Case in HyperRESEARCH is basically your unit of analysis, so if each web site is a Case, just code the copied web page text into a text source and the video as a video source and code them to the same Case.

Hi ... following on from this theme, how can one then deal with embedded videos in htm files (or on webpages such as facebook pages)? Do I need to download these separately? If so then how do I link them back to the htm page?

Hi 

My sources include a significant amount of data from facebook and twitter pages that are updated multiple times daily. It doesnt make sense for em to copy and paste these things into TextEdit or Word and then upload them into HyperResearch (I would be doing this several times a day). Given that social media has become such a major area of research now for social scientists, economists, business and probably loads of other fields, I would urge you to rapidly include this functionality in Hyper Research. NVivo 10 are offering this by providing their own web browser which must be used for accessing the pages one wants to code. The sooner the better really - I am desperate for a tool that can help me keep track of this rapidly changing body of data!

Thanks

To do this sort of contextual analysis, you'll want to take a look at the code relationship functions available when using the Filter By Criteria command. You can filter either code references (to show just the coded passages for a certain relationship) or cases (to show just the cases where the relationship occurs), or both. Code references and cases that don't meet the criteria are temporarily hidden, so you can do analysis and create reports on just the parts of your study that meet the criteria you've specified.

The best place to learn about these functions in depth is Tutorial 6, Advanced Code and Retrieve Features. Also, check the topics in the Help under "Analysis" - particularly on Filtering and on Code Relationship Functions.

You can filter based on a number of different relationships between coded data segments. (For example, you can filter all the places where the segment coded with code A overlaps another segment coded with code B.)

I hope this is helpful.

Greetings, Laura. If you want to mark passages but not code them (or not yet), what we recommend is that you create a special code for them. (If you start the code name with a dash - for example, "-Key Quotations" - it sorts to the top of the Code Book so it's easy to find.) Doing this lets you use the Filter Codes feature to look just at these marked passages, or exclude them and just look at the normally coded references.

Currently you can add notes to a code reference (these are called Annotations) and to a code (these are the Descriptions at the bottom of the Code Book window). We have plans to let you add notes and other criteria to sources and cases, but in the meantime, it may be useful to use an annotation somewhere in a case to store information about that case.

You can also add notes about a case or source to the source file (If you've started coding it, make sure you add information only to the end of the file), and mark the information with a special code. This lets you view these notes by clicking the code reference to see the marked passage in the source file.

You can search annotations and code descriptions by creating a report that includes the annotations and/or descriptions, then using the Find command to search through the report for the text you want.

I hope this is helpful.

Actually, it is possible to import a Code Map using the "Import Other Studies..." command under the File menu. If you have a code map in Study A and you want to Import it into Study B, you would open up Study B and choose File > Import Other Studies and select Study A.

However, this will import not just the code maps (all code maps) in study A into study B. It will also import the cases and master code list of study A into study B. So, if you want ONLY the Code Maps, you should make a copy of Study A (call it A-1 and then delete all the cases. Import A-1 into Study B and you will then have the Maps from Study A-1 and Study B all together in Study B.

Be sure to make backups of you study file before trying this in case you want to revert back for some reason.

Thanks, Jeanne! I think the easier thing is to print the code map and redo it in the new file. I have made significant changes between the two files, including some code deletions/additions, and I would be too worried about losing my changes. The map will have also changed because of the changes to my codebook, so even if I could import it it might not be as helpful. 

Is there a good tutorial you'd recommend for using code maps? I think I am just barely scratching the surface for how it could help my analysis. 

Thank you,

Tracy

It's possible to export the code map as a graphic file, but currently there's no way to import it.

It may actually be simpler to move the coded cases from your new file (without the code map) into your old one (with the code map), rather than trying to move the code map from the old one into the new one.

To move a case, open the new file, go to the case you want to transfer, and choose Edit > Copy Case. Then go to the old file and choose Edit > Paste. The newer version of that case is now in the old file.

(If there's already a case by the same name in the old file, you may want to delete it before pasting in the new one. You can't have two cases with the same name, so if you try to paste a case that's named the same as a case that's already in the file, HyperResearch will ask you to rename the new one.)

This transfers all the coding you've done in the pasted case into the older file. You can repeat this for each case from the new file.

If you have added new codes to your Code Book, you can open the new study file and choose "Export List" from the "Edit Code" popup menu at the top of the Code Book. This saves the codes and code descriptions as a text file. Then open the old study file and choose "Import List" from the "Edit Code" popup menu, and select the exported file. This merges the code lists from both files, so that any new codes you've added will now appear in the old file's Code Book.

(This procedure should work well if you have added codes and cases, and done new coding. But it may not work well if you've reorganized your codes significantly between the two files, or if you have some code maps in the new file that aren't in the old file (as well as vice versa) and you want all of them in one file. If you're not sure, please feel free to send us the two study files at support@researchware.com, and we can take a look and give you more specific advice.)

Apologies if I have missed instructions to do this task, but I am having trouble figuring out if it is possible to move a code map from one HR file to another. I started one in a previous version of my study, and I would prefer not to recreate it if at all possible. Thank you!

Tracy

I'd like to be able to filter codes and generate reports based upon inclusion in another code. 

What I've got is a case where I'm interested in certain types of meetings.  I have those meetings coded, and I also have my data coded for topics and individuals.  For example meetings could be focus groups, informal discussions, formal classes, etc.  However the topics and individuals that I'm also concerned with occur in settings outside of meetings - personal conversations, etc. 

What I'd like to do is to be able to first filter my data to include only the certain types of meetings I have coded, and then see the frequency of different codes within that, to be able to show for example who is speaking during certain types of meetings or what topics are brought up.  I haven't been able to use the filter criteria for overlapping codes, because I have dozens of codes for individuals and topics and can't account for all of them with the criteria builder.

This seems confusing now that I've written it down - I hope it will make some sense and if not I'll try to clarify!  Thanks.

ETA: I thought of an example that might explain better.  Say I want to find all the incidences of fruit, and what they overlap with.  If I filter my codes to just fruit, then the overlapping ones don't appear.  It's not productive to go through all my other codes to show all the time that fruit overlaps with Bob, and then when it overlaps with chairs, and then when it overlaps with Jane, and then when it overlaps with toasters... etc.  I want to be able to see at a glance all the codes that overlap with fruit.

Oops! realized that what I recommended here won't actually work, sorry! "Hide Highlighted" hides the codes on that case in the Study Window but doesn't affect the filtering of cases and codes. My bad. Ignore this.

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Another approach is to use the "Hide Highlighted" feature for customizing your code filters on an individual code instance basis.

To do this, Sort Codes by Source (as above)

Then select all the code instances that were applied to /other/ source files.

Choose "Hide Highlighted" from the Edit Menu.

Repeat this for any other codes applied to other source files on the current case, then repeat the process for other cases.

This may involve more clicking & dragging than the above approach but has the advantage of keeping the codes on the original cases and not adding new cases.

Unfortunately, in the current release of HyperRESEARCH, there is no ease way to do exactly what you are looking for.

If the HTD file(s) were codes to only a few cases, I would suggest creating temporary cases and cutting and pasting the codes coded to the HTD source to their own cases and then filtering to just those cases. Make a backup of your study file before this just in case you decide this is not the way you want to go. For example, the following steps would place the codes from a HTD source on their own case:

1. Navigate to a case with codes from an HTD source.
2. Select Sort.. from the Codes menu and sort by Source Name. (This sorts all codes for each source next to one another)
3. Select the codes from the HTD source (click and drag to select multiple codes on the case)
4. Select Cut from the Edit menu
5. Select "New..." from the Cases menu to create a new (temporary) case. You may want to name it the same name as the case you are copying from but with "-HTD only codes" after the name.
6. Select Paste from the Edit menu

This new case now contains just the codes from one of your HTD files. You can then use Filter Cases > By Name to filter to just those cases where you have isolated the HTD codes. Then run your frequency report.

Create a new case using New from the Cases menu. Go to your orginal case. Select the codes you want to move to the new case. Choose Cut form the Edit menu. Move to the new case. Choose Paste from the Edit menu.

If you are looking to split you current case up by Interview, remember that you can sort codes by source (choose Sort form the Codes menu). This will sort all codes form a particular source file/interview next to one abother for easier selection and then cutting and pasting.

I started using HR with a study file of a single case. As my data collection and analysis evolved, I find it now more useful to "split" my single case in two.

I already coded my interviews and do not want to waste that work. From my point of view, what I need is  to create a new case and "assign" source files I have in my old case to this new one. How can I do this?

Thanks.

Now I got it. Another question about this functionality:

I changed the settings to ignore words shorter than 4 characters but this does not seem to work.

I also added a number of words to the list of words to ignore but, perhaps because my source files are in portuguese, the counter does not ignore words like: é, não, lá. Does the counter only work for non accentuated words?

Thanks

I have different types of source files in my study file: images, video, text (rtf and htd formats). I transcribed my interviews with HT and wanted to get a sense of the grounding of my interviews only - that is, a frequency report for the codes I used on my interviews only. So, basically it is a frequency report where I filter codes by type - to include htd files only.

Can you provide some additional information?

For example is the HyperTRANSCRIBE file codes only to one case or to many cases? Do you have multiple .htd sources? What other source document types have you coded in your study?

In the Word Counter, there is a list of your sources on the left below a pulldown menu called "Sources". By default, Word Counter counts words across all sources. You can add or remove sources from the list that Word Counter operate on by using the pulldown Sources menu over the list of source files.

Click on a source file name and choose "Remove Selected Source from Word Counter" to remove a source. Or select "Add from Source List" to add a source you have already codes in your study. Or select "Add new Source File" to add a new source file you have not already coded.

The word counter is a great functionality! Thank you for putting that in place in the version 3.5

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working properly: when I change the source file on the left pane and hit count words, nothing changes in the cloud view or list view. It seems that HR is counting the words for all source files, instead of just counting the words of the source file that is highlighted in the left pane.

Am I doing anything wrong? Please help

Ana

Hi.

I need to create a frequency report of codes I have in only one type of source files (htd files). Is this possible and how?

Thank you.

 Thank you for the prompt replies! This is very useful.

Marisa

Greetings, Marisa. HyperResearch can open your .htm files as text sources

(HyperResearch doesn't yet interpret the full range of what can be displayed in a web page - for example, pictures and embedded video don't show up, and complex layouts might not appear as they do in a browser - so try experimenting with a few typical pages you have.)

Hello,

I am new to HyperResearch and I need to find out if web pages stored on my hard disk as they are in .htm format can be used as source files. I looked up in the user pages and also in the tutorials but I have been unable to find this information. I am doing virtual ethnography and working with web materials.

Thank you,

Marisa Ponti

Very helpful.  Thank you, Paul.

Timothy

You should not have to recode anything. If I understand correctly, your have 16 interviews/narratives each 190 minutes in length. I assume this represents 16 separate files (or "Sources" in HyperRESEARCH terms). Are you coding the actual audio or video files or transcripts of the audio/video files?

I assume you have coded all 16 Source files to a single Case (probably the original "Untitled" Case HyeprRESEARCH defaults to). Under the "Codes" menu in HyperRESEARCH, you can select "Sort..." to sort your codes by Source Name - this will sort them on the Case by the file (or Source) they are in. You can then select all the codes for a single Source file (or person like "John") and Select Cut from the Edit menu. Select "New..." from the Cases menu to create a new Case and then Paste from the Edit menu to paste those code just cut from the original case into the new case. Repeat as needed to move codes to a separate case for each subject.

You may also wish to view our online training video for HyperRESEARCH at http://www.researchware.com/support/online-training.html.

Hello, Paul:

 You response is very helpful to me.  Given my study, it is best that I assign each interview to it's own case.  Here is my challenge.  I have coded 16 statements (each 190 minutes in interview length) under one case.  Is it possible to disagragate the codes so that, for instance, John's statement in case 2 will only contain codes that reflect his statement?  Or will I have to recode each statement?

Timothy

Timothy,

HyperRESEARCH, as a qualitative data analysis tool, is methodologically independent. You can use our tools to perform qualitative research using any methodology you like. How you may structure codes and cases most often depends more upon the specific area of research being explored than the methodology used. As phenomenology is an effort to understand how people experience what ever area of experience (phenomena) you are researching, I'd need to know more about the area of your research to advise further.

For example, if you were researching the subjective experiences of dog owners experiences with their dogs, you might organize each individual's narrative to a corresponding "Case" in HyperRESEARCH (so 1 case for each person in the study) OR you might organize to that all narrative for owners with a class of dog bread (such as Toy dog or Working dog) are all on a single case (all Toy dog owners on one case, all Working dog owners to another case). It all depends upon what theme and concepts emerge from you data. The flexibility to easily move codes and source files between cases in HyperRESEARCH enables you to restructure you study as need to focus on the theme that are relevant to your research.

If your looking for more basic guidance on qualitative research methods, including all types of phenomenological research  methods, I would recommend reading The Practice of Qualitative Research by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (Researchware Cofounder) and Patricia Leavy.

We have many examples of papers published on a wide range of research area using both a phenomenological approach and HyperRESEARCH. For example, see "Quality of Life among Childhood Leukemia Patients" (http://jpo.sagepub.com/content/20/4/192). However, without knowing the specific area of your research, it is difficult to identify example that may be helpful to you.

I am interested in best practices for using Hyperresearch to analyze data in a TP study. Please help. 

Thank you,

Timothy

Jan, I can appreciate the desire for more reporting formats, and as the lead programmer it's a subject of great interest to me.

If you could kindly email me a mock-up of the ideal report layout you're looking for, I'd like to see if we can find a way to have the program deliver that. My email address is richard@researchware.com

HyperRESEARCH 3.0 delivered more than a hundred new features an enhancements, many of them from customer requests like yours.  While it's not possible to add every feature all of our customers request in the very next version, I'd like to see how quickly we can make your reporting work go a little more smoothly.

I look forward to hearing from you -

Wow, I have to say I couldn't be more disappointed in the fact that I am not able to create a report using the groups/categories that I have identified.  I guess I'll keep working through the data.  I guess I can go back and recode all my original codes with the group names but this seems a little short sited in the research development.

Would it be possible to create a preference in the HR Preferences dialogue to set up a Study window default sort preferences?  At the moment, I have to keep using the Codes > Sort > Sort Codes to set up my preference each time I go through and do more coding on a source.  It would be very useful and time saving to be able to set up a default preference and then use the Codes > Sort > Sort Codes to over-ride as and when necessary.  For example I prefer my codes to be sorted by Source then Reference - so each time I either saved my HR study or HR saved automatically, it would re-sort codes to reflect that sort preference set up in the Preferences dialogue. 

Thanks.

Hi,

I have been doing quite a few transcriptions and found some other problems in HT:

1) I wanted to change text size from 11 to 13 because I get eye tiredness, but whenever I insert a shortcut the text inserted from that point on has the size 11. I changed the size in the shorcuts, and I see that the size is 13, but is not working when the text in teh shortcut is inserted.

2) I also tried to change page setup but when I select File > Page Setup it shows me the Print message window, as attached.

3) I am inserting time stamps once in a while (very useful, this feature) but when I stop the audio file with cmd+Y and insert the timestamp with cmd+D. The problem is that I cannot use Tab to advance to the next segment and play it, after I do this.

Thank you.

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Ok. I now could format text and insert it in the shortcuts. Thank you for helping.

I don't know if this is important or not, but I recently formated my mac and reinstalled all software, including HT and HR. But now HT is crashing often, and that was not happening before.

For example yesterday it crashed when I was doing a transcription and I lost some content. I now am saving after each sentence, because the program could not recover unsaved parts of the file. Is there any way of recovering an unsaved file after a crash?

Today, it also crashed when I was doing a find > replace text.

About the other problem I reported: I reinstalled HyperTranscribe but the program is still unable to open directly an htd file, so I am emailing an htd file to you.

Thank you.

Hi, Ana. Can you email your .htd file to support@researchware.com so we can take a look at it? I'm not sure why this is happening, but the file might provide a clue for us.

For styled text, can you try this experiment:

1. Type a few words into the transcription field, and make one word bold.

2. Select and copy the text.

3. Choose Insert > Edit Shortcuts.

4. Choose Edit > Paste.

and describe what happens and where the process goes wrong for you?

For some reason I could not understand, whenever I try to open directly an htd file I get an error message that says that the audio file could not be located. But when I open HyperTranscribe and open the same file via menu File > Open I do not get that error.Can this be fixed with some trick?

Another question is why I cannot use styled text in a shortcut? I tried to follow the instructions to do that (Help) but I do not have the option for pasting a styled text in the shortcuts tab.

Thanks,

Ana