Offline vs. Online Portfolios
Introduction
Starting with AskiaVista 5.3.2.0, you can import portfolios created by AskiaAnalyse.
Using AskiaAnalyse, it being a desktop application, is usually much faster way to create portfolios with than doing so in AskiaVista. The speed of creating portfolios online is a result of:
- The speed of the User's Internet connection
- The size of queries between the browser and AskiaVista server(s)
- The AskiaVista server(s)'s workload...
Added to the consideration of speed, here are some other benefits of AskiaAnalyse portfolio creation:
- A user interface with real desktop-like responsiveness
- Task automation via Cloning
- Re-usability of portfolios across surveys, when the survey(s) have common questions
Nevertheless, we still have some differences between AskiaVista & AskiaAnalyse. For example, for historical reasons, the script engine in AskiaVista uses a key to determine questions and responses:
(??MyQuestion(KEY)?? / ??MyResponse(KEY:N)??)
The script engine of AskiaAnalyse simply uses the shortcut:
??MyShortcut??
Because AskiaVista was originally built primarily to target users who do not, necessarily, have analysis skills, it didn't integrate the full features of the offline Analyse product which is specially built for the expert users.
So currently, though we have worked to provide a way to import AskiaAnalyse portfolios into AskiaVista, this import has limitations. We strongly recommend you check the following, non-exhaustive, list of incompatibilities before importing portfolios. As a rule of thumb, one could say that in most cases, comparing both applications' interfaces can provide a quick indication as to whether a feature is supported on both sides. Last, we can already inform concerned users that surveys with multiple Categories in AskiaVista, as well as files with duplicate shortcuts will very likely be prone to cause trouble.
List of incompatibilities
✔ available
✗ not available
| Features | askiaanalyse | askiavista |
Portfolios Settings |
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| Indent | ✔ | ✗ |
| Additional chapters | ✔ | ✗ |
| Additional table of contents | ✔ | ✗ |
Questions |
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| Numeric with intervals | ✔ | ✗ |
| With "Find all values" | ✔ | ✗ |
| Properties | ✔ | ✔ (Since 5.3.4.0) |
| Advanced sort | ✔ | ✗ |
Responses |
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| Group of responses | ✔ | ✔ |
| Calculated responses | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced properties in calculated responses1 | ✔ | ✗ |
| Properties of responses | ||
| - Values | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Sort | ✔ | ✔ |
| - Always at the end | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Display count | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Display percentage | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Display other calculations | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Break table after | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Add empty line after | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Treat as total in col-sigs | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Allow ranking | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Width / Height | ✔ | ✗ |
| - Intervals | ✔ | ✗ |
- Level / Sub-population2 / Weighting /Universe (aka. LSWU) |
✔ | ✔ |
| - Formatting | ✔ | ✗ |
General CrossTab Properties |
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| Title | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sub-Population by GUI | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sub-Population by Script | ✔ | ✗ |
| Universe | ✔ | ✔ |
| Weighting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Level | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chart template | ✔ | ✗ |
| Tab style | ✔ | ✗ |
CrossTab Advanced Settings |
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| Total and caption | ||
| Totals (Rows/Questions/Columns/Edges) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Question caption to use | ✔ | ✗ |
| Show calculation captions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Question captions on a row on their own | ✔ | ✔ |
| Edges on a column on their own | ✔ | ✗ |
| Empty row after each question | ✔ | ✔ |
| Empty row after each response | ✔ | ✔ |
| Empty column after each edge | ✔ | ✗ |
| Show question captions in rows | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show question captions in columns | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show question captions in edges | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show response captions in rows | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show a column order letter3 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show a column order letter in edge total column | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show a column order letter in total column | ✔ | ✔ |
| Superpose responses for flat counts | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sort | ||
| Row suppression | ✔ | ✔ |
| Column suppression | ✔ | ✔ |
| Edge suppression | ✔ | ✔ |
| Use unweighted data for suppression | ✔ | ✔ |
| 3-way suppression | ✔ | ✔ |
| Treat edges individually | ✔ | ✗ |
| Sort rows | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sort columns | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sort edges | ✔ | ✔ |
| Use unweighted data for sorts | ✔ | ✔ |
| Breaks | ||
| Calculation alignment | ✔ | ✔ |
| One tab per question in row | ✔ | ✔ |
| One tab per question in column | ✔ | ✔ |
| One tab per response in edge | ✔ | ✔ |
| Break row first | ✔ | ✔ |
| Group superposable question in rows | ✔ | ✗ |
| Run broken tabs independently | ✔ | ✔ |
| Break according to page layout | ✔ | ✔ |
| Copy total rows when breaking up | ✔ | ✔ |
| Copy total columns when breaking up | ✔ | ✔ |
| Transpose table | ✔ | ✔ |
| Override sub-populations instead of intersecting them | ✔ | ✗ |
| Export to Word | ✔ | ✗ |
| Number formatting | ||
| Digits after decimal point | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show % sign | ✔ | ✔ |
| Wrap text with parenthesis | ✔ | ✔ |
| Replace 0 by | ✔ | ✔ |
| Replace values < by | ✔ | ✔ |
| Alignment | ✔ | ✗ |
| Size | ||
| Orientation | ✔ | ✔ |
| Centering | ✔ | ✗ |
| Margins | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic cell sizes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fixed cell sizes | ✔ | ✗ |
| Header and Footer | ||
| Header / Footer (Left / Centre /Right) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Height of header / footer | ✔ | ✗ |
| Top left cell | ✔ | ✔ |
| Charts | ||
| One chart for every question in row | ✔ | ✔ |
| One chart for every question in column | ✔ | ✔ |
| Break rows first | ✔ | ✔ |
| Transpose chart | ✔ | ✔ |
Calculations Properties |
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Level / Sub-population2 / Weighting /Universe (aka. LSWU) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Visibility4 | ✔ | ✗ |
| Display calculation on the intersections of rows and columns | ✔ | ✔ |
| Display calculation on the rows | ✔ | ✔ |
| Display calculation with the questions | ✔ | ✗ |
| Display calculation on the columns | ✔ | ✔ |
| The calculations of the totals are defined by the cross-tab | ✔ | ✔ |
| Hide this calculation5 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Total in rows | ✔ | ✔ |
| Total in columns | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ranking | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced options6 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Number formatting | ✔ | ✗ |
| Scripts | ✔ | ✗ |
| Use for chart | ✔ | ✔ |
| Conditional formatting | ✔ | ✔ |
Notes:
1 Such as: Number formatting, display as stats.
2 Except: By Script.
3 For column significance.
4 When a weight is applied.
5 However it remains available for arithmetic or conditional formatting.
6 Valid for all options, except those missing, ie. compare the interface between AskiaAnalyse & AskiaVista for more details.