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When the open text responses have been exported to Ascribe™ (go to Conducting an Ascribe Schema Export for more information) and recoded, Ascribe™ will generate Authoring CXML with the new variables which can then be imported into the survey.
The Ascribe™ Import functionality provides you with the ability to import back into Authoring these new variables. The procedure is manual to the extent that the zip files must be obtained (either via email or FTP) and archived in an accessible folder, then selected by the user.
Authoring assumes that the codebook of these newly created questions will be owned by Ascribe™.
The new variables will be based on the old variables. For example, if the exported question has the question id q1, then the returned variable will have the question id q1__coded.
To import Ascribe™ files:
- Go to the Survey Data > Coding > Ascribe™ Codeframe Import menu command.
- Click Browse to open a standard Windows file browser, then browse to and select the file you wish to import.
- Click Import Codeframe.
The import dialog overlay opens - .
Figure 1 - The Ascribe™ Import dialog
The file is imported. Each new variable is added to the Survey tree immediately after its corresponding "original" variable - .
Figure 2 - Example of an Ascribe™ variable added to the Survey tree