You can use the UNICOM Intelligence Professional Options dialog box to define options that control the appearance and behavior of UNICOM Intelligence Professional. You can open the dialog box by choosing Options from the Tools menu. If you click an option, its description appears at the bottom of the dialog box.

For panes, controls the look of the title bar and the caption buttons.

For open files in the Edit pane, controls the look of the tab.

Controls the look of the toolbars.

Controls the number of files that are shown in the list of recent files on the File menu.

Controls the number of workspaces that are shown in the list of recent files on the File menu.

The library files location.

Default questionnaire wizard template.

Controls whether files are automatically saved when you run or debug them.

Specifies the target UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server cluster to use when you choose Activate from the UNICOM Intelligence Professional Tools menu. The value of this option depends on whether you are connected to the same local network as the cluster and have access to the FMRoot shared folder on the primary DPM server. If you are connected to the same local network, enter the name of the primary DPM server. If you are not connected to the same local network, enter the URL that you use to login to UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin on that cluster, for example:

If you typically activate to only one cluster, and are connected to the same local network as that cluster, you can stop the activate Login dialog from appearing by entering the name of the primary DPM server in this option and then setting the “Show Login Dialog” option below to False. For more information, see Activating an interview.

The location for interview cache files. Typically, you should not need to change this option.

Controls whether answers (case data) collected during the running of an interview should be marked as Live or Test. For more information, see Creating case data.

The name and location of the third-party file compare tool that will be used when you choose Compare from the UNICOM Intelligence Professional Tools menu. For more information, see Comparing interview scripts.

The quota data records file location.

Determines whether UNICOM Intelligence Professional displays a warning message when you choose Debug Quotas from the UNICOM Intelligence Professional Tools menu. The message says that creating the quota database might take a long time. For more information, see Testing quotas.

Indicates the DebugQuotas.mrs file location. Running the script will displays the quota results in Microsoft Excel.

The HTML page that will appear in the Browser pane when no interview is running. If you create your own page, change this value to the name and location of your .htm file.

The HTML page that will appear in the Browser pane when an interview is running. If you create your own page, change this value to the name and location of your .htm file.

The path for the appropriate default participant record file. This file will be used in cases where a Participant.xsu file is not found in the project directory. You can manually enter the file path or click ... to open a Windows browse dialog and navigate to the appropriate participant record file on your file system. The default file path is:

The metadata document (.mdd) file that contains the text for interview error messages. If you create your own error message texts, change this value to the name and location of your .mdd file.

The default location for interview template files.

The HTML document type declaration to be used for interview pages. Typically, you should not need to change this option.

Enables and disables the effects of sub-templates in grid and loop questions.

Question sub-templates are applied to questions in nested blocks.

Auto jump is disabled for CATI Player questions.

Excludes the expiry meta tags in the HTML output.

Uses predefined keycodes for CATI Player questions.

Uses table layout for single row/column categorical lists.

Provides WebTV support.

The HTTP ports to use when running interviews. Typically, you should not need to change this option.

Determines whether UNICOM Intelligence Professional opens a metadata viewer automatically whenever you open an interview script (.mdd) file (see Using the interview metadata viewer).

Determines whether the standard HTML player or the CATI HTML player will be used to present the interview. The CATI HTML player allows the interview to be completed using the keyboard only. If you select FromRoutingContext, routing contexts called CATI will automatically use the CATI HTML player and all other routing contexts will use the standard HTML player.

The name of the Sample User XML (.xsu) file, which contains a Sample Management record that can be used to test an interview. For more information, see Accessing sample management data.

The location for Shared Content files. This option supports the <mrSharedRef> tag.

Determines whether the Login dialog appears when you choose Activate from the UNICOM Intelligence Professional Tools menu. Note that if you set Show Login Dialog to False, but enter a URL in the “Activate Server or URL” option above (or do not enter any value for “Activate Server or URL”), the Login dialog will still appear. For more information, see Activating an interview.

Determines whether a running interview will appear in the Browser pane or in a standalone Internet Explorer browser. For more information, see Testing an interview.

Controls whether the Use hints from .mdd checkbox in the Auto Answer dialog box is selected by default. Note that using hints can degrade the performance of the interview script. For more information, see Running an interview automatically.

Controls whether caching will take place in memory or on disk. Typically, you should not need to change this option.

Controls how UNICOM Intelligence Professional displays the metadata and routing sections of an interview script (.mdd) file. The two sections can be displayed on separate tabs in the Edit pane, or can appear as two halves (top and bottom, or left and right) of the Edit pane. For more information, see Viewing and navigating an interview script.

This option controls whether UNICOM Intelligence Professional displays the syntax of a function or method when you type the opening parenthesis.

This option controls whether UNICOM Intelligence Professional displays a list of the valid global functions, properties and methods for a variable when you type a dot after the variable's name.

Controls whether the ScriptAssist suggestion list will include enumerators from UNICOM Intelligence Type libraries.

Controls whether the ScriptAssist suggestion list will include functions from the UNICOM Intelligence Function Library.

Controls whether the ScriptAssist suggestion list will include hidden items.

When you move your mouse pointer in the Edit window over a function or object property or method, UNICOM Intelligence Professional can display a ToolTip showing the correct syntax. You can use this option to turn this feature on and off.

These options control different aspects of the Edit pane.

Controls whether tabs are automatically converted to spaces. The number of spaces is determined by the setting of the Tab Indent option.

The default font that is used in the Edit pane. To change it, click ... (Browse). Alternatively, you can expand the DefaultFont options by clicking + on the left side. You can then change the suboptions in the normal way.

Italics are not recommended as the default font, because they might be difficult to read in the Edit pane.

This option enables you to expand and collapse sections of indented code (such as loops and subroutines). By default, all sections are expanded each time you enter the text editor.

Controls whether end of line markers are shown.

Controls whether a horizontal ruler is shown at the top of the Edit pane.

This option displays a bar on the left side of the Edit pane on which icons indicate the presence of bookmarks and breakpoints.

This option indicates the presence of empty lines at the end of a script.

Controls whether line numbers are shown.

Controls whether a pair of matching left and right braces [ and ] are highlighted as you type in the second brace.

Controls whether space characters are shown as a blue dot.

Controls whether tab characters are shown

Controls whether a vertical ruler is shown on the left side of the Edit pane.

Controls the number of spaces between tab stops.