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Forsta Professional Authoring Support

All the topics, resources needed for Forsta Professional Authoring.

  • Respondent Data Editor Overview

    The Respondent Data Editor is a tool for editing the respondent data in the database. The respondent data is saved in a table called “respondent” in the data...

  • Advanced Expressions

    The Advanced Expression window allows you to use SQL code to create a search expression to extract specific respondents. Note that you should have some know...

  • Selecting Columns and Defining Views

    When you enter the Respondent Data Editor for a survey for the first time, the respondents are listed with the “respid” displayed. No other system or user-de...

  • Exporting Respondents via Search Results

    To conduct a search, write search criteria into one or more of the fields and click the Search button. Authoring will then display only those records that ma...

  • Update Data and Delete Respondents

    There are two ways to edit the respondent data.Update field(s) for one respondent at a timeUpdate sets of fields/dataTo update data for one respondent at a t...

  • Synchronization

    The synchronize functionality allows you to update and/or append records from the respondent list into the response data. This can for example be useful in t...