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Forsta Professional Authoring Support

All the topics, resources needed for Forsta Professional Authoring.

  • Preparing the Respondent List

    The respondent list must be in the form of a tab-delimited text file, with column headings in the first row. This file can for example be exported from a spr...

  • Modifying or Removing Responses

    The Edit functionality enables you to edit and delete survey data, i.e. directly modify or remove the responses given by your respondents.Warning:Remember th...

  • Saving and Selecting Views

    In some cases you may wish to see different sets of columns in the search window depending on the information you want to display. To avoid adding and removi...

  • Searching for Respondents

    A respondent list can be huge - millions of names - so a method of reducing the list to a manageable size so you can find the data you wish to edit is vital....

  • Updating Answers for All Respondents

    You can update the answers for a specific question for all the respondents visible in the list.Perform a search such that only those respondents for whom you...

  • Updating Answers for One Respondent

    To edit the responses of one respondent, click on the respondent's respid in the search result.All the fields in the Survey, and that respondent's answers, w...

  • Uploading the Respondent List

    Once the respondent data file has been prepared and saved as a tab-delimited text file, you can upload it into Authoring. Note that you can only upload it in...

  • Uploading the Respondent List via FTP

    Note: Data Transfer Encryption and FTP is an Add-On (go to Data Transfer Encryption and FTP for more information).ImportantWhen uploading r...

  • Validating Codes and Answers for Single Questions

    When this checkbox is selected, the codes and answers for single questions in the respondent file are validated. The validation process will first check if t...