dotData 2.1 documentation!

Welcome!! This documentation is meant to give you all information you need to use the dotData system. The typical way to start using the system is by going through a 10 to 15 minute walkthrough, then getting your hands dirty with the example questionnaire. The basics of the system is self-explanory and you should be able to get started a matter of minutes.

This documentation is for the purpose of completion and step-up to more advanced use of the software.

Last updated October 2022

See also

This is not a user wiki. Click here for a user wiki (Dutch).

Note

You can log in to the dotData system here.

Walkthroughs and examples:

Several pre-defined question setups are available in your account.

Should this not be the case, please notify the vendor.

Introduction

• Getting started
  • Introduction
  • First steps

Scripting

• Script language overview
  • Client side scripting
  • Server side scripting
• Language glossary
  • Loops
  • Conditional execution
  • Functions
  • Set functions

Question types and item types

• Introduction
• Data types and question types
  • Overview of data types
  • Overview of question types
• Items that do not have a question type

API

• API

Building Question Types

• Introduction
• The HTML fragment
• The JavaScript
• The css file
• Multiple questions merged together into one
• Translatability
• Developing on local
• Naming of your HTML controls
  • Free text
  • Single response
  • Multiple response
  • Multiple subjects
• Value persistence
• Testing

Templates

• Introduction
• Encoding
• Available tags
• Varying elements
• Progress bar

Mailing

• Adhoc mailings
  • Introduction
• Let the system select people from your panel
• Upload a list of email addresses
  • General guidelines and warnings
  • Inviting people by uploading a list of email addresses
  • Connection to your panel
  • Inserting the link to the questionnaire
  • Availability of extra columns
  • People who already finished your survey
  • Deduplication
  • Overviews
  • Bounce module

Quotas

• Quotas defined
• Settings
  • The ‘Target’ setting
  • The expression
  • Hard versus Soft quotas
  • The ‘Ignore complete status’ setting
• Global quota variables
  • the QuotaStop variable
  • the QuotaGo variable
• Derived quota variables
  • [quotaname]Eligible
  • [quotaname]Reached
  • [quotaname]Percentage
  • [quotaname]Description
• ‘Manually’ counting quotas
• Dynamically calculate targets based on incidence
• Setting things up
• Setting up notification groups
• Auto-locking cells that are almost full
• Quotas overview

Recipes

• Recipes
• Effects
  • Rollover
  • Transform a radio button or checkbox to a clickable image:
  • Combined image and text in an answer category or subject:
  • ‘Other, namely…’ with an image using || modifier (don’t forget to set the ‘other’ checkbox in the backend):
  • Option as textbox, with ‘Other, namely…’ using || modifier (don’t forget to set the ‘other’ checkbox in the backend):
• Exports
• Routing and filter examples

Display Types

• Display mode setup
  • Free Text
  • Single Response, one subject
  • Multi Response, one subject
  • Single Response, multiple subjects
  • Multi response, multiple subjects
  • Most/Least
  • Ranking
  • Free Text Multiple Subjects
  • X-Point
  • Go back to main page

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page