Tips & Tricks
Create and Import Custom Designs
Overview Compusense has a wide variety of pre-set experimental plans (designs) that can be added to a test to present samples in a specific order. These same designs can be used for presenting sections in a specific order. However, sometimes a need ...
Advanced Design Creating Workflow
Overview In our basic workflow for creating and importing custom designs we covered a simple example on how to create a design with a warm-up sample always being seen in the first position while other samples are randomized. By popular demand of our ...
Log Panelists Out Automatically
Overview Do you ever find that some of your panelists forget to click the Finished button? You are then left with incomplete data even though likely they answered all the questions. Or do you ever find that some of your panelists forget to log out ...
Create Custom Wildcards
Overview You can create custom wildcards that are based on responses panelists have made in previous Ranking, Category, Comment, "Choose", or Sort all and Sort n questions. For example, you have a Rank question, and in a follow-up Comment question ...
Print Ballot
Overview Compusense software's primary purpose is to collect data electronically and provide built-in analysis. However, you do have the option to print the ballot (to print the questionnaire) in a .PDF format, if necessary. This feature is for ...
Display Question Name to Panelists
Overview By default, the question names are visible only to you and other analysts in the test Build tab and in the reports. The question names are not visible to panelists unless you make them visible. Attribute names, on the other hand, are ...
Accessing Question and Attribute Options
Overview Every question type has various options available. Different question types have different options to assist you in setting up your tests in the best possible way to meet your data collection and analysis objectives. Additionally, attributes ...
Saving Files in a .csv Format
Overview Working in Compusense means that sooner or later you will need to import a .csv file to meet some of your testing needs. It could be that you need to import panelists or a custom design. We find that, depending on you MS Excel settings, when ...