Displaying and hiding activities in the activities list
UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin is configured so that its activity list displays only those activities that are appropriate for use with the current project. For example, if you are working on an analysis project you will see UNICOM Intelligence Reporter and other analysis and tabulation activities in the list but not any of the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin activities. Similarly, if you are working on an interviewing project, you will not see any analysis or tabulation activities until the project has been activated, nor will you see any activities related to telephone interviewing if the project has not been activated for this.
The activities displayed for a project are controlled by the project’s type and by the MustMatch element in each activity's interface (.xml) document. When you create a new project, you choose whether it is an interview or analysis project and UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin sets one or other of the following project properties to True:
ShowInterviewApps
This is an interview project so display interviewing activities.
ShowTableApps
This is an analysis project that displays tabulation and analysis activities (currently just UNICOM Intelligence Reporter).
Whenever you select a project to work on or you return to the activity list from an activity, UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin checks which activities it can display in the list. Sometimes this is the same as the previous time the list was displayed, and sometimes it is not. An example of when the activities in the list change is the first time you activate a project. Once a project is activated, a number of other activities become available depending on the activation parameters. For example, if it is a telephone interviewing project, the Phone Participants activity becomes available so that outbound calls can be made.
This way of deciding which activities to display might not suit the way your company works. For example, if you build a project in UNICOM Intelligence Professional and want to run tables on your test data, you can open the project in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin but will not see UNICOM Intelligence Reporter in the activities list. You can change this, and similar problems, by changing the Show properties for projects.
To make an activity set available for all projects
For example, to make UNICOM Intelligence Reporter available to all projects not just those that have been activated and have live data.
1 To open DPM Explorer, navigate to:
[INSTALL_FOLDER]\IBM\SPSS\DataCollection\7\DDL\Code\Tools\VB.NET\DPM Explorer.Net
2 Double-click DPM Explorer.exe.
3 Expand the tree in the left frame to show Servers > server_name > Applications > application_name > Must Match > Project.
DPM Explorer shows the property values that must be set in order for the chosen application (UNICOM Intelligence Reporter, for instance) to be displayed in the activities list.
4 Select ShowInterviewApps or ShowTableApps, and then click Remove > Property.
5 Close DPM Explorer.
This change affects the value of one of the Show properties in DPM and remains in force until changed again. It does not change the original setting in the activity’s
.xml file (see
MustMatch element for details).
To make an activities set available for a chosen project
For example, to make UNICOM Intelligence Reporter available to a project, complete the following steps.
1 Open UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin.
2 Select the project whose setting you want to change, and then click the Edit Project toolbar button.
3 On the Property tab, set the value of the appropriate Show property (for example, ShowTableApps) to True.
4 Close Edit Project.
See also
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