UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer folder

This folder is where most of the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer components are installed. It contains the following subfolders:

The local interview cache. Contains a TransferFailed folder for files that could not be transferred to the case data database. See Value cache for more information.

UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer user documentation available from the Start menu, and the ReadMe file containing more information. Other documentation is installed with the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Documentation Library.

The folder in which project files are created and updated when users run UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer activities, and the location of files that need to be accessible by all or most UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer users. In a cluster, only one computer contains this folder. FMRoot contains the following subfolders:

Contains the Cache subfolder that is used to stored interview data pending transfer to the case data database. See Value cache for more information.

Created as an empty folder by the installation procedure. As projects are activated, new subfolders are created for each project, containing the master copies of the project files. The activation procedure updates the Projects folder on each interviewing server by copying files from these subfolders.

Created as an empty folder by the installation procedure, it is used by the Build activity for storing role-specific questionnaires, questionnaire snippets, or templates.

The location of UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer and project files that might be available either to all users or to certain groups of users. The Shared folder contains the following subfolders.

Contains catifields_default.mdd, which provides the default list of sample fields for the Phone Surveys and Phone Participants activities, and a Reports subfolder containing files for producing CATI reports.

Contains the sample management and interview configuration files, SampleMgt.GUI.Config.xml and Interview.Config.xml. SampleMgt.GUI.Config.xml determines who can access each of your database servers and, thus, who can access your sample management databases. Interview.Config.xml is used by the Launch activity to control which sample management and case databases are made available to users of that activity. For more information, see Access to sample management and case data information.

Files of interview scripting code that questionnaire designers using Build can load into UNICOM Intelligence interview scripts (usually into the Routing section) to perform specific tasks during interviews.

Contains the Sample Management Scripts folder with the standard basic.mrs and multimode1.mrs scripts used for sample management in inbound and outbound (CATI) projects. The Launch activity makes these scripts are available in the list on the Sample Management tab. Additional scripts are installed with the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Documentation Library. See Standard scripts for more information.

Created as an empty folder. When projects are activated, subfolders are created for each project containing the files required for interviewing on those projects.

Standard questionnaires or questionnaire snippets that users can load into questionnaires they create using the Build activity.

Created as an empty folder.

Page layout templates for questionnaires for the Build activity.

Contains CATIinterviewer.mdd, the default user property file for the CATIinterviewer role. When properties are defined for other roles, new files are added to this folder.

Created as an empty folder. As users create projects in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin, a separate subfolder is created for each user. This contains a Projects folder in which the project folders for each of the user's projects are created.

Created if the UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool is installed to contain files associated with this program. See UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool for more information.

Created as an empty folder. When projects are activated, project folders are copied from FMRoot\Master into this folder. The interview engine uses these files for generating interviews.

The UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer load balancing script. See Load balancing interviewing engines for more information.

The interview engine program that runs individual interviews.

Implements the Engine Memory values (IProcessInformation and ISystemMemory) for load balancing.

Subfolder containing the interviewer session engine web service (mrIEngWS.dll). The program runs on computers hosting the Interviewing Service and handles collections of interviews.

Subfolder containing files associated with the mrIWeb.dll program:

CATI. Subfolder containing cascading stylesheet and Javascript files for CATI (outbound) interviewing.

Images. Created as an empty folder.

mrIWeb.dll. Program that runs on computers hosting the Web Service and passes out an engine for each new interview based on which computer is running the least number of interviews

RegisteredEngines.xml. File containing information about Interview Engines that have registered with the Web Service.

Templates. Subfolder containing the default templates (authenticate.htm, authfailed.htm, authretry.htm, projactive.htm, and rejected.htm).

Web.config. Configuration file naming the interview engine program to use, the location of default templates, the interviewing mode, and whether to use the image cache.

Program for registering interviewing servers with web servers.

A program for updating license codes.

Files containing licensing information.

A program for updating UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer components with new passwords for the Running and Anonymous users.