If you are using Survey Crafter Professional 4.0 or Survey Crafter Professional 3.5, please consult the following tables. They list issues that have been resolved in patch versions of both versions.
Please note study files saved by Survey Crafter Professional 4.0.0 can be loaded by Survey Crafter Professional 4.0.8 and vice-versa.
Similarily, study files saved by Survey Crafter Professional 3.5.0 can be loaded by Survey Crafter Professional 3.5.4 and vice-versa.
| Issues resolved in patched versions of Survey Crafter Professional 4.0. |
| Issue # |
Affected Versions |
Patch Version |
Date Fixed |
Area |
Description |
Workaround (if you don't upgrade) / Notes |
| 745 | 4.0.0-4.0.7 | 4.0.8 | 2008-07-01 | Interviewer | Survey Crafter Professional has a feature that has the program automatically move newly entered records from the built-in Interviewer into the program's Data window and then save the study file. After closing the Interviewer, if you do not save the study file again before exiting the program, extra information remains in the study file, causing the study file to increase in size. After repeating this many times, eventually, the study file becomes large enough that Survey Crafter Professional fails to save the study file. | Make a change to your study after closing the built-in Interviewer and then save the study file. |
| 744 | 3.4.0-4.0.7 | 4.0.8 | 2008-06-30 | Survey Designer | When Survey Crafter Professional publishes your survey's web files or initializes the built-in Interviewer, it reorganizes the expressions from your survey's branching and skipping rules, building new expressions in order to make it possible to enable and disable question blocks and to skip pages. When there are more than a few branching rules, depending on how the rules relate to each other, Survey Crafter Professional can build expressions that are too long for it to handle, causing it to crash. | Change some or all of your branching rules to skip question block or skip page rules. Contact Survey Crafter technical support for help. |
| 743 | 4.0.0-4.0.7 | 4.0.8 | 2008-05-30 | Survey Designer | Survey Crafter Professional does not consider the study file modified when you enable or disable a custom rule via the pop-up menu on the Survey Explorer toolbar. | There is no workaround. |
| 742 | 4.0.0-4.0.6 | 4.0.7 | 2008-05-16 | Web Surveys | When a web survey is configured to have its respondents uniquely identified and to also only allow respondents already in the data file to complete the survey, the web survey script can in certain situations create an index file that only has the unique ids and not the variables used to uniquely identify the respondents. When the index file only contains unique ids, the web survey script will not allow anyone to complete the survey. | Turn off the index feature using a custom configuration command rule. For more information, contact Survey Crafter technical support. |
| 741 | 4.0.0-4.0.6 | 4.0.7 | 2008-05-09 | Study | Survey Crafter Professional's File/Save feature can fail when the study file is large. | Try saving your study using File/Save As. |
| 740 | 3.5.0-4.0.6 | 4.0.7 | 2008-05-08 | Web Surveys | When a survey is on the Web, imported variable survey fields show digits such as 0, 1, etc. in place of special characters such as the comma character. | There is no workaround. |
| 739 | 4.0.0-4.0.6 | 4.0.7 | 2008-04-18 | Batch Reports | The Custom Script Batch Report Design Item does not support imposing a different row filter on each row in the frequency section of a Basic Analysis table. | There is no workaround. |
| 738 | 4.0.0-4.0.6 | 4.0.7 | 2008-04-15 | Survey Designer | Survey Crafter Professional stops looking for survey fields when it encounters an incomplete one. The impact of this is the Survey Designer window's Survey Explorer toolbar can show an incomplete list of survey fields. In addition, when a survey is published to the Web, survey fields after an incomplete one are ignored in the web survey. | Delete the first survey field that is not listed and then insert a new one in its place. If this does not fix the problem, contact Survey Crafter technical support. |
| 737 | 2.7.3-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-03-31 | Analyses | The printed version of an analysis table that has one or more embedded objects will not include the embedded objects if they are outside the area that contains the calculated values and there are also cells outside the calculated area that have been formatted. | Add a calculated value to a cell above, below, to the left or to the right of the embedded objects. This forces Survey Crafter Professional to include the embedded object in the printed version of the analysis table. |
| 736 | 2.7.3-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-03-31 | Analyses | Charts that are embedded in an analysis table automatically reset to the default format settings when their source cells in the table change to #Update, #Error or NV. | There is no workaround. |
| 735 | 3.0.10-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-03-18 | Interviewer | If formatting changes are made to a question block in the Print or Web Layout modes of the Survey Designer window and the Interviewer Layout mode is not revisited, Survey Crafter Professional may keep the format settings of the Interviewer Layout mode when it should not when the survey is displayed in the built-in Interviewer. | Switch the Layout mode of the Survey Designer window to Interviewer Layout mode before displaying your survey in the built-in Interviewer. You can switch the layout mode back to Print or Web Layout mode if you want. |
| 734 | 4.0.0-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-03-18 | Data Window | Survey Crafter Professional crashes when both the Survey Designer and the Data window are open and a change is made in the Survey Designer window that causes Survey Crafter Professional to delete a variable. For example, changing a question block from "For 1 All-That-Apply Question" to "For 1 Closed-End Question". | Keep the Data window closed while making changes to your survey in the Survey Designer window. |
| 733 | 4.0.0-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-03-16 | Batch Reports | Embedded objects in analysis tables do not appear in the printed batch report. | There is no workaround. |
| 732 | 4.0.0-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-03-15 | Survey Designer | Question blocks inserted from the question library contain no default values for new question block options such as row and column size of other (please specify) boxes and automatic numbering of questions inside a multi-question question block. | Let's say you have inserted a question block from the question library and you have selected a layout for the block that includes one or more other (please specify) prompts. Double-click on the question block and set the values for the row and column size of the other (please specify) box in the Other tab to non-zero values. |
| 731 | 2.7.4-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-03-04 | Web Surveys | Add the ability to turn off a web survey's page branching and skipping, requirement and custom validation rules. To turn off a web survey's page branching and skipping, requirement and custom validation rules, add &G_SYS_ApplyRule=No to the long link to the survey. | There is no workaround. |
| 730 | 4.0.0-4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 2008-02-27 | Batch Reports | Survey Crafter Professional fails to print or export the table that shows the items that have the highest ranking in the summary of rankings for ranking questions tables. | Obtain a custom script from technical support. |
| 703 | 4.0.0-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-16 | Batch Reports | When trying to delete a variable or a filter referenced in the Batch Report Print/Export dialog box, Survey Crafter Professional incorrectly reports the item being used by a design item of the batch report. | There is no workaround. |
| 707 | 4.0.0-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-15 | Batch Reports | The Batch Report Designer window does not show information about the filter(s) employed by the design items. | There is no workaround. |
| 704 | 4.0.0-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-15 | Batch Reports | The Del key does not delete the highlighted filters in the Filters tab of the Batch Report Design Item, Batch Report Print/Export dialog box or Batch Report Filters Library dialog boxes. | Click on the Remove or Delete buttons to delete or remove the highlighted filter(s). |
| 725 | 4.0.0-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-14 | Batch Reports | When employing a Repeat Variable Values filter, Survey Crafter Professional adds only the values of the variables and not the associated description, question and/or prompt text to the titles of the design item's tables and charts. | Create and employ a filter of type Simple Condition Expression having an expression of TRUE and the title addition you would have liked the Repeat Variable Values filter to have had. |
| 727 | 2.7.5-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-11 | Analyses | Spreadsheet rows are not automatically resized to fit new or changed data when an analysis table built by the Individual Responses analysis wizard is updated. | Click on the top left corner of the analysis table, click on the Format menu, Row and then on Auto Size Selection. |
| 724 | 2.7.5-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-11 | Analyses | Exporting an analysis table built by the Individual Responses analysis wizard to an HTML file yields a larger-than-necessary file. | There is no workaround. |
| 723 | 4.0.0-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-11 | Web Surveys | If a web survey is configured to uniquely identify respondents and the survey is accessed without the information needed to uniquely identify the respondent, the web survey script creates an index file without the variables used to uniquely identify respondents. | There is no workaround. |
| 722 | 4.0.0-4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 2008-01-11 | Batch Reports | Add the ability to use a $FILTER macro in condition expressions in the Condition tab of the Batch Report Design Item dialog box. This allows you to use not only the current table/chart's filter but also additional criteria for including a design item's table or chart in the printed and/or exported report. | There is no workaround. |
| 720 | 4.0.0-4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 2007-12-14 | Batch Reports | After closing the Batch Report Designer window, Survey Crafter Professional only remembers the first line of the HTML template file in the HTML Setup tab of the Batch Report Print/Export dialog box. | There is no workaround. |
| 713 | 4.0.0-4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 2007-12-14 | Survey Designer | Survey Crafter Professional crashes intermittently when the Survey Designer window is opening and the survey contains duplicate targets or bookmarks. | There is no workaround. |
| 719 | 4.0.0-4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 2007-12-13 | Analysis Window | Copying an analysis table cell to the clipboard and then copying text from a text box intermittently causes Survey Crafter Professional to crash. | There is no workaround. |
| 718 | 4.0.0-4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 2007-12-11 | Survey Designer | Would like to be able to quickly expand or collapse all nodes in the Survey Designer window's Survey Explorer toolbar. | Click on the plus or minus sign to the left of each node to expand or collapse the node. |
| 715 | 3.0.10-4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 2007-12-06 | Survey Designer | Survey Crafter Professional does not update the block number in the number area when there is a carriage return immediately before the number in the numbering area of the block. | Double-click on the question block, turn off automatic numbering, click on the Finish button, remove the carriage return(s) before the number, double-click on the block again, turn automatic numbering back on and click on the Finish button. |
| 717 | 4.0.0-4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 2007-12-05 | Batch Reports | Before the printing and exporting begins, a progress bar appears for each custom branching and skipping rule in the study's surveys. | There is no workaround. |
| 716 | 4.0.0-4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 2007-12-05 | Batch Reports | The cross tabulation part of additional mean summary and top 2 box analysis tables for "Basic Analysis" design items always shows row percentage calculations instead of using the type of percentage calculations specified for cross tabulation variables. | There is no workaround. |
| 712 | 4.0.0-4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 2007-11-14 | Batch Reports | The batch report uses only the first survey's skip logic rules to automatically filter Basic Analysis tables. If you only have one survey that has skip logic in your study file, you will not encounter this defect. | Create a separate batch report for the second or third, etc. surveys. |
| 711 | 4.0.0-4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 2007-10-22 | Question Block Wizard | In the Questions tab of the Question Block Wizard dialog box, even when the check box labeled "Number the questions" is cleared or the check box labeled "automatically, using" is cleared, when a zero or other invalid number is in the "starting with" box, Survey Crafter Professional prevents you from finishing the dialog box, displaying the error message "Please enter an integer between 1 and 9744." | 1) Click on to select the check box labeled "Number the questions".
2) Click on to select the check box labeled "automatically, using".
3) Change the starting with number to a 1 or other valid number.
4) Restore the check boxes. |
| 710 | 4.0.0-4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 2007-10-22 | Study | Survey Crafter Professional crashes immediately after saving a new study. | Start Survey Crafter Professional again and open the study file. No information is lost. |
| 696 | 4.0.0 | 4.0.1 | 2007-10-16 | Batch Reports | Batch report repeat variable filters that use literal variables distinguish between upper and lower case letters when they should not. | There is no workaround. |
| Issues resolved in patched versions of Survey Crafter Professional 3.5. |
| Issue # |
Affected Versions |
Patch Version |
Date Fixed |
Area |
Description |
Workaround (if you don't upgrade) / Notes |
| 695 | 2.7.0-3.5.3 | 3.5.4 | 2007-09-12 | Data window, Analysis window | Due to a defect in the localization routines in Microsoft Windows Vista®, quantitative data is not recognized correctly by Survey Crafter Professional in the Data window and in the calculations. This causes quantitative calculations to appear as 0s or NVs (No Values). | There is no workaround. |
| 638 | 3.5.0-3.5.2 | 3.5.3 | 2005-08-15 | Web Surveys | Closed-end and rating questions that have only one prompt and use a radio button for the prompt are not automatically disabled by the respondent's web browser when the question should be skipped. | Use page skipping instead of question skipping rules for closed-end and rating questions that have only one prompt and use a radio button for the prompt. |
| 637 | 3.0.10-3.5.1 | 3.5.2 | 2005-07-27 | Built-in Interviewer | When a question block straddles a soft page break in the Print Layout mode of the Survey Designer window, the built-in Interviewer sometimes draws the question block's borders incorrectly. | Insert carriage returns or a page break before the question block in the Survey Designer window. |
| 636 | 3.5.0-3.5.1 | 3.5.2 | 2005-07-27 | Built-in Interviewer | Under the following conditions, the built-in Interviewer resets all of the responses on the first page of a multi-page survey to NV (no value):
1) The Interviewer is configured to automatically clear answers to skipped questions.
2) There is at least one custom branching and skipping rule assigned to a question block on the first page.
3) At least one of the custom skipping and branching rules is causing one or more question blocks to be skipped on the first page.
4) The Finish & New button is clicked on any page that follows the first page. | Clear the check box labeled "Automatically Clear Answers to Skipped Questions" on the "Display" tab of the "Interviewer Options" dialog box. |
| 635 | 3.0.10-3.5.0 | 3.5.2 | 2005-07-20 | Survey Designer | When the Survey Designer window is configured to show the definition of the variables associated with the question blocks, it fails to update the displayed codes for category variables when the codes are changed manually. | There is no workaround. |
| 634 | 3.5.0-3.5.1 | 3.5.2 | 2005-07-20 | Web Surveys | Custom branching and skipping rules having expressions that use the <> operator to compare a category variable to a category value are incorrectly translated to use the = operator in the web survey's generated JavaScript. | Avoid using the <> operator to compare a category variable to a category values in expressions for custom branching and skipping rules. |
| 633 | 3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 2005-07-10 | Survey Designer | The "Rule Group" drop down in the Custom Rules dialog box does not show question blocks in the order that the blocks appear in the survey. | There is no workaround. |
| 632 | 3.4.0-3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 2005-07-09 | Web Surveys | A carriage return character in the error or warning message of a custom validation rules cause the rules to not function correctly when the survey is on the Web. | Remove all carriage return characters from the error and warning messages of your custom validation rules. |
| 172 | 3.0.10-3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 2005-07-08 | Built-in Interviewer | On Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP, you can click on other parts of the program when the built-in Interviewer is active. | Survey Crafter Professional no longer displays a progress bar while loading a page for the built-in Interviewer. |
| 631 | 3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 2005-07-07 | Survey Designer | When a question block straddles a soft page break in the Print Layout mode of the Survey Designer window, you cannot move the cursor to any of the cells in the first row of the question block. | Insert carriage returns or a page break before the question block in the Survey Designer window. |
| 395 | 3.0.10-3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 2005-07-06 | Survey Designer | The Question Block wizard allows you to choose a block layout that uses a drop down, single or multiple selection list without having you choose a list. | Always use a list when you choose a block layout that does not provide a place for you to type the prompts. |
| 630 | 2.7.3-3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 2005-07-02 | Data Window | Drop downs for category variables show a maximum of 6 options. | Drop downs for category variables now show a maximum of 20 options. |
| 629 | 3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 2005-07-02 | Built-in Interviewer | When the Data window automatically scrolls to show new records added by the built-in Interviewer, some of the rows leading up to the new rows are blank. | Use the vertical scroll bar to scroll the Data window up or down. |
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