Add Export Data Warning to Displayr
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Jamie Morris
Merged in a post:
Include data formatting warning on Data Export
T
Technical Wombat
Add warning when exporting sav, qdat, and csv files from Displayr about how data isn’t original raw data and how it reflects what is changed in the document:
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This is shown automatically in Q, but not in Displayr from the
Publish > Export Data > Download ….. file
options. Thus, some customers expect the data exported is their original raw data, and they get up in arms when it isn’t. Should add dialog for this on export to ensure customers understand what is being exported (or at least relabel the options to be specific that it’s the Current Displayr Data Set getting exported or something).J
Jamie Morris
Merged in a post:
Alert message when exporting data to SPSS in Displayr
T
Thorough Butterfly
Suggestion:
We give the same warning message to Displayr users that we give to Q users when they export a datafile (assuming it is, in fact, the same). That is, this message…
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When a user does any of these:
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Rationale:
A Displayr user experienced hardship when attempting to merge data into an existing project.
They were attempting to merge wave 1 and wave 2. Their current project had Wave 1 data only and wanted to update their Displayr document with a merged W1 + W2
They took the inadvisable process of:
Export > Data > Download as SPSS file
Merged W1 (from Step 1) with W2 in SPSS
Updated their file with the merged file from Step 2
Of course, the difficulty in merging the files should have been a clue to them that something was amiss. Nonetheless, the user did not get the impression that the exported SPSS file would have been different than the one that was imported in.
The user is now aware that she should only merge original files.
J
Jamie Morris
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