User properties
User properties define any special abilities or qualifications that a user has in relation to the requirements of one or more activities. One of the most common uses of user properties is for interviewer qualifications which help to determine which records are allocated to each interviewer for calling. For example, if a participant record indicates that the participant's usual language is French, the project's Sample Management script can ensure that the record is allocated to a French-speaking interviewer.
User properties are defined as part of property groups, each of which is associated with a specific role. Only members of the role might have user properties assigned to them from groups associated with that role. Interviewer qualifications are the only user properties that the standard UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer activities recognize. To use them, you must create a property group called InterviewerQualifications and associate it with the CATIinterviewer role. You can then assign interviewer qualifications to all members of the CATIinterviewer role. If your company has added its own activities, and these activities recognize user qualifications, you can create other types of properties for use with those activities.
There are three stages to setting up user properties, some of which you will do more than others:
1 Create a property group (for example, InterviewerQualifications)
2 Add properties to the property group (for example, Language spoken, Refusal converter)
3 Assign properties to users. (For existing users, simply modify the user's account and click the User Properties button to assign the properties; when creating new users, you will be prompted to assign properties as part of the user-creation process.)
You can also change the definitions of properties in a group, delete properties from a group, and delete property groups.
Although it is browser based, User Administration works in a similar way to Windows Explorer. It displays an expandable tree-like structure on the left of the page for viewing current user and group details, and uses the right-hand side of the page for displaying more detailed information and links for possible actions.
When you have finished using User Administration, click the Home icon in the menu bar.
To use User Administration, you must be authorized in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin to use it and must be a member of the role named in this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SPSS\MRUserManagement\UserMgtAdministratorRole
(which is the DPMAdmins role by default). For more information, see “Who can run user administration” in the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Documentation Library.
Deleting participants from telephone interviewing projects can cause phone reports to show unexpected results. If a user or role is assigned to telephone interviewing projects, do not assign that user or role to the “Can Delete Participants” feature.
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