Displayr | Allow users to control the addition of new categories when updating data
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Vian de Villiers
Broader customer issue to solve:
When updating a data file i.e. for a tracking study, sometimes the new data file might contain additional variables (in case of a multi-response question) or values (in case of a single-response question). When the data is imported, it provides the user with a warning that there are changes in the data file and then when the data is updated it places additional variables outside of a variable set, causing the user to merge the variable manually with the set.
It would be helpful to users if they had more control over this, i.e. we can bring up a screen that says "this is a new variable in the data file, we think it belongs to this question, please confirm if you would like to group it with this question or if you would like to keep it as a separate variable"
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Jamie Morris
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Jamie Morris
Merged in a post:
Manual override of automation when updating data
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Mid Albatross
On of the benefits of Displayr is that we can easily update documents with new data files. However, when there are differences in the files it quickly becomes onerous to fix those differences as Displayr is unable to match things up that should be (even if it's not obvious from the data structure).
We need a method that allows users to create equivalences between an updated data file and the original data file during the data updating process. This will help reduce complicated data work, will remove confusion about which variables have "worked" and which haven't, allow variables to be combined into variable sets, and would improve efficiencies when working with non-conforming data sets.