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Ascribe™ is an external application for recoding open text (verbatim) responses into multis. The application is provided by the third-party company Language Logic (http://www.languagelogic.info), and is not part of Authoring or part of any product or service provided by Forsta.
Important
The availability and correct operation of the Ascribe™ functionality depends on Language Logic continuing to support their product. Forsta has no control over Language Logic, and as such cannot guarantee that the Ascribe™ functionality will always be available.
Ascribe™ can be used for recoding open text questions, and questions with text boxes such as multis and grids with "other" fields.
Data exchange can be conducted either manually (email) or via FTP.
To use the FTP option, your company's Authoring account must be set up with the correct FTP settings for the Ascribe™ FTP site. You must establish an Ascribe™ account by contacting Language Logic directly, and you will receive from them the relevant FTP account name. If you are a SaaS client you can request the FTP option to be set up for your company by sending the FTP account name to Forsta at support@confirmit.com. Users operating on their own the servers should contact their administrator. Assistance from Forsta in connection with setting up the Ascribe™ FTP settings, modifying them, and other support related to the Ascribe™ FTP solution is offered by Forsta as Additional Services.
The general procedure after you have established contact with language Logic is:
- You generate the files to be exported using Authoring's Ascribe™ Export functionality (go to Conducting an Ascribe Schema Export for more information).
- You send those files to Language Logic.
- Language Logic recodes the questions and response data.
- They compile the files, and return them to you.
- You import the files using Authoring's Ascribe™ Import functionality (go to Conducting an Ascribe Schema Import for more information).