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Setting a default recording mode for text questions
To set a default recording mode for text questions, type:
IOM.DefaultStyles.Questions[QuestionStyleTypes.qsText]._ Labels[LabelStyleTypes.lsQuestion].Audio.Record = _ RecordModes.<value>
where <value> is one of:
Mode
Description
rmNone
No recording.
rmAuto
Start recording the first time the question is displayed and stop when the interviewer navigates away from the question. If a question is asked more than once recordings must be made manually by clicking the record button.
rmAutoNoControls
The Record and Stop controls are not available to the interviewer. Recording starts when the question displays and stops when the interviewer navigates away from the question. The property ensures that questions are only recorded the first time they are asked.
rmManual
Recording is under interviewer control via the start and stop recording buttons.
rmProhibited
Marks questions that must never be recorded even if the whole call or interview is being recorded. You might use this for flagging questions whose responses could be used to identify individual respondents. (This mode is not implemented in the current version.)
If a question is asked more than once due to snapbacks, the new recording overwrites the previous one.
You can use the same notation for recording responses to non-text questions, but this is generally the exception rather than the rule.
See also
Default styles for question types