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Keycodes
UNICOM Intelligence Author allows you to define custom keycodes for question responses. You can manually assign custom keycodes, or allow UNICOM Intelligence Author to auto-fill response keycodes.
To assign keycodes manually
1 Select a question from the Routings pane.
2 Enter keycodes for the question responses in the Keycode field in the Design pane.
If the Keycode field is not displayed, click the Field Chooser icon and select Keycode from the dialog.
3 Repeat these steps for all applicable questions.
Avoid using keycodes that start with the same characters. Do not define ambiguous keycodes, especially when one keycode is a part of another keycode. For example:
Q1 "What activities do you like?" {Basketball keycode(1), Football keycode(11)};
For this question, the interviewer's intention cannot be determined when the 1 key is pressed. Changing the keycodes to the following would result in better results:
Q1 "What activities do you like?" {Basketball keycode(01), Football keycode(11)};
For this question, the interviewer's intention can be determined because although both keycodes contain 1, the interviewer must press a unique first character.
The Ctrl and Alt keys can be assigned as keycodes, but the user interface Ctrl and Alt assignments supersede the keycode assignments.
To auto-fill keycodes
Click Tools > Options > General., and then select Automatically fill keycodes.
For information on defining auto-fill settings, see Keycodes: Auto-Fill.
See also
Customizing UNICOM Intelligence Author