queXS An Open Source, web based CATI system

queXS 1.7.5 has been released today on Sourceforge

Some more bugs related to respondent self completion have been fixed including sending emails in UTF-8, text focusing and last complated page position resetting. Better description and error messages are provided when creating a new operator. Cases from questionnaires that have been disabled will not appear for interviewers and the message about no available cases will reflect this.

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from queXS 1.7.x

queXS 1.7.4 has been released on Sourceforge

This release includes bug fixes for questionnaire self completion. Only auto advance in the questionnaire if an interviewer (not when self completing), and when emailing - respect the limesurvey email settings including SSL.

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from queXS 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2 or 1.7.3

A Windows Easy Installation has been released today that contains all the packages in the queX Suite (queXML, queXF, queXS and queXC) based on XAMPP. Download it from Sourceforge.

If you want to test any or all the packages in the queX Suite on Windows - simply download the self extracting executable, extract it to a root directory of your computer or USB stick and then execute the xampp service. Then browse to the http://localhost/ address to be greeted by a list of all the queX Suite packages.

Please note that I don't recommend using the XAMPP installation in production - but it may serve as a good test or introduction to the packages in the queX Suite.

queXS 1.7.3 has been released today on Sourceforge

Some more bug fixes including removing the reliance on Javscript executing as PHP for CKeditor fields, fixing PHP strict notices and some failures that occurred on IIS servers.

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from queXS 1.7.0, 1.7.1 or 1.7.2

queXS 1.7.2 has been released today on Sourceforge

Some bugs have been fixed including when running on IIS/MySQL. You can view the number of available cases at any time by looking in the questionnaire outcome administration page. A full Czech translation has been included (thank you Zbyněk Schwarz!).

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from queXS 1.7.0 or 1.7.1

queXS 1.7.1 has been released today on Sourceforge

This release fixes a bug where questionnaires could not be deleted. It also fixes a file permissions issue in the source download of version 1.7.0. Please use this release instead of version 1.7.0

To upgrade from version 1.7.0 - just replace the file admin/questionnairelist.php with the equivalent file in this download.

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from queXS 1.6.0 or 1.6.1

queXS 1.7.0 has been released today on Sourceforge

Interviewers can now email an invitation to respondents to complete the questionnaire online. queXS will still track the case, and by default will allow an interviewer to call the respondent after 1 week if they haven't self completed. This major change required some structural changes to the database for security reasons and therefore requires a database update.

Further new features include the ability to restrict appointments to the interviewer making them (or the administrator can set an appointment for a particular interviewer). Also, operator and sample details can be edited and questionnaires can be deleted to keep the administration pages clean. In the code itself, the PHP short tags have been replaced with full tags so should improve compatability on more systems and shared hosting.

Also a note for developers, the code repository is now being stored on launchpad using the bzr revision control system.

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from queXS 1.6.0 or 1.6.1

queXS 1.6.1 has been released today on Sourceforge

Paradata/metadata can now be selected for export in data output. Paradata currently includes the number of call attempts and the number of answering machine messages left. Metadata currently includes all sample variables assigned to the case. Translations have been updated and some non translatable text on the sample import page has been made translatable.

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from queXS version 1.6.0.

queXS 1.6.0 has been released today on Sourceforge

queXS 1.6.0 includes a major update to Limesurvey 1.92. This includes the new Expression Manager feature which allows for complex conditions, tailoring and expressions. It is possible to integrate sample variables in Expression Manager conditions, tailoring and expressions therefore complex logic and item display can be achieved with a combination of sample variables and questionnaire variables. Also, the dependency on ADODB has been removed as it is included with Limesurvey.

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from any queXS version in the 1.5.x series

queXS 1.5.4 has been released today on Sourceforge

A new report breaks down outcomes by call attempt. Also added is a bulk appointment generator allows you to upload manually generated appointments via a CSV file. Some minor bugs have also been fixed including timezone assingment by telephone number prefix (in certain cases).

Read on for more details including how to upgrade from 1.5.0 or 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 or 1.5.3