Activating a questionnaire

1 Save the questionnaire file, and then select the routing that you want to activate.

Destination Server or UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin URL

Enter the name or URL of the server where UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin is located (for example, http://server_name/SPSSMR/DimensionNet/default.aspx). Use this to connect to a server using an internet or intranet link.

Enter a valid Windows or UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin user name.

Enter a valid password for the defined user name.

Select UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin Authentication or Windows Authentication (if UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin is configured for Active Directory).

Uses your Windows login credentials to login instead of the User name, Password, and Authentication fields.

The Activate - Current Project Open from UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin dialog appears.

You can activate projects using either Basic or Advanced mode.

▪Basic mode: Provides options for activating a project in either Test or Live mode, and allows you to select an activation template from which to pull activation settings.

▪Advanced mode: Provides options for configuring various activation and project settings. For more information, see Activate Current Project: Project settings.

Inactive displays only when Status after activation is set to Inactive. For more information, see Activate Current Project: Project settings.

6 If you want to use activation settings from an existing template, click Apply activation settings from activation template. Activation Template appears. Select a template, and then click Accept. For more information, see Activation templates.

To configure additional activation settings, see Activate Current Project: Project settings.

You can monitor the activation status by using the Activation Console. The console provides options for viewing pending and completed activations, and creating activation history filters. For more information, see Activation Console.

▪In order for the activation process to function, the server software version must be the same (or higher) as the client software version.

▪When activating a new project from a desktop application (UNICOM Intelligence Author, UNICOM Intelligence Professional), a message appears when there is an existing ActivateDocument.xml file with unmatched information in the project’s local folder:

The latest activation settings in the project folder are for a different project. Do you want to update the activation settings based on the current project?" [Yes] [No]

If you select Yes, all unmatched information is replaced with the current project information. If you select No, the unmatched information is preserved.

▪When you activate a questionnaire in UNICOM Intelligence Author or UNICOM Intelligence Professional, the .mdd file is copied into the FileName_files folder under the questionnaire file. The activation process uploads all the files from this folder into the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin project.

▪If you try to reactivate a project before receiving the successful activation message from the Activation Console, you might not retrieve the most up-to-date information from the server.

The .NET Framework’s default encoding reads the registry’s ANSI code page when encoding. As a result, errors might occur when activating questionnaires that include characters such as umlauts (for example, when the project name contains the character Ä). You can resolve this issue by updating the server's ANSI codepage:

Access the registry on the server (click Start > Run, and then type regedit), and then navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\ACP

For servers running a German operating system, enter 850; for Chinese, enter 936; for Japanese, enter 932.

For more information, see “Encoding Class” on the Microsoft MSDN site: