mrScriptBasic is a programming language that enables scriptable access to UNICOM Intelligence components. mrScriptBasic makes it easy to script questionnaire logic and survey data cleaning routines.

mrScriptBasic is based on Visual Basic and Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). mrScriptBasic also supports the following features which are designed for use with market research data.

Market research data typically contains case data collected using categorical questions. These are questions that have a predefined list of responses or categories from which the respondent selects their answer. Like the UNICOM Intelligence Data Model, mrScriptBasic supports data of this type.

Expression evaluation in mrScriptBasic is performed by the Evaluate component, which is part of the UNICOM Intelligence Data Model and which provides support for using Arithmetic operators and Comparison operators on categorical data.

mrScriptBasic uses the UNICOM Intelligence Function Library, which is also part of the UNICOM Intelligence Data Model, and which includes many functions that can operate on categorical data. The function library is extensible and it is easy to add your own functions. For more information, see UNICOM Intelligence Function Library.

mrScriptBasic can contain sections to group a series of sections together. For more information, see Section.

Special mrScriptBasic syntax enables you to specify a categorical value when iterating through an object collection. This provides a concise syntax that meets the needs of the market research industry. For more information, see Object collection iteration.

This feature enables you to access items in certain object collections as if they were a property of the collection object. For an example of using this feature in table scripting, seeDynamic property expansion.

mrScriptBasic supports the On Error Goto statement and an enhanced Err object, which can return the line number in the script where an error occurred. For more information, see On Error.

mrScriptBasic provides programmatic access to a Value Stack and Variables collection, which expose the state of a script’s variables at any given instruction. UNICOM Intelligence is planning to use these features in a future release of UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer to re-start or roll-back an interview without having to replay the interview from the start.