February 2012 - EpiData-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

New Entry Client and Manager versions
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

When will there be new releases for Entry Client and Manager for Mac? I think it's great that there are two seperate programs now, but I miss some of the functionalities of EpiData Entry (lookup in one .rec file while working in another and coding an integer as key unique through the GUI). I hope anybody knows!? -- Kind regards, Remco La Rivière **

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New test versions of Manager and EntryClient
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

Dear List. We have released a new test releases of EpiData Manager and EpiData EntryClient. Since we released version 1.0 of Manager and EntryClient a number of issues have been raised by users. We have addressed most of these issues and we encourage you to download, test and give your feedback to the list on whether you find the issues resolved or not. In addition to these bug fixes, we are planning for a new release schedule of our programs. This is because we wish to reflect our development cycle in how we release the programs. What does this mean? For most parts: not much. But it gives us a possiblity to release updates faster and respond quicker to new reported issues. It also gives those of you who wishes to see the latest and greatest features being developed right now, a chance to test and try the programs in an early alpha stage. The release of software is devided into three stages (show here in reverse development order): 1) Stable: This is the version we have tested, tried and generally consider to be stable for for production/read projects. If a bug is reported finding the cause and fixing it has highest priority in the development. This will be available for general download on http://www.epidata.dk/download.php 2) Beta: This version is based on the stable version, but with reported bugs from the stable version fixed. Usually no new features are included. This will be available for general download on http://www.epidata.dk/testing.php 3) Development/Alpha: This version is a direct copy of what is being developed at the moment. There is NO guarantee this version will be backward compatible and could break other dependancies. However, this gives you as a user the oppertunity to try out the latest and greates features we are developing at the moment. Although this is in general considered an unstable release, we do still aim for it to be working at all times (and hopefully backward compatible.) Todays release is a Beta release and hence is placed in the testing page <http://epidata.dk/testing.php> of our website. If no major bugs are reported we will release the this beta version as a stable release in a short period of time. Changes from version 1.0 (Stable) to 1.1.1 (Beta): Manager and EntryClient: * Fixed bug where non-US path/filenames causes save/load errors on Windows OS. * Fixed bug where config file failed to save on non-US Windows OS. * Fixed bug where version information in XML file was incorrect (was 0 should be 1). * Fixed bug where using jumps with boolean field would cause error on load of file. * Fixed bug where saving data on rare occations could create invalid XML syntax in .epx file. Manager: * Fixed two bugs where program could cause access violation when closing a project. * Fixed bug where importing data files could cause crash. * Fixed bug in importing .rec/chk files, where value part of a valuelabel was surrounded by quotes (") * Added import of floating-point valuelabels from .rec/chk files. EntryClient: * Auto calculated fields did not mark a record as modified * Fixed bug in search where clicking "Find" did not find any records. * Fixed bug where colours chosen in settings were not saved. * Fixed bug where "recent files" were not case sensitive on Linux and Mac OS X. * Changed default colours for active field. * Changed search List/Find to not include initial value of Repeat/DefaultValue field. (Result is that clicking Ctrl+L on a new record gives a complete list of the dataset) Kind regards, Torsten Bonde Christiansen. Jens Lauritsen.

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Epidata manger/Entry 1.0 Import of 0.8.8.0 Data
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Dear all, I started to use the beta 0.8.8.0 a while ago and updateted to the 1.0 (also tried 1.1. beta). Is there a way of importing the data from 0.8.8 to 1.0 ? When I try to use the old documents, epidata gives me an error, as it expect more detailed settings. Thank you all very much, Markus

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Sv: [EpiData-list] Access violation message
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Please provide more info. Is this on one particular pc ? If so try a different one, Which operating system ? Was data saved on a network drive ? regards jens lauritsen -oprindelig besk.- Emne: [EpiData-list] Access violation message Fra: epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca Dato: 03-02-2012 03:17 Work colleagues are entering data into an EpiData database during interviews with participants in their study. At what seems to be a random point in the interview, the following error pops up and EpiData needs to be shutdown. 'Access violation at address 0044BB8C in module 'Epidata.exe.' Read of address 00000004.' 'access violation at address 7C2F0012. Read of address 7C2F0012.' The data entered hasn't been and can't be saved. I've had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything useful. I'm hoping someone on the EpiData email list is able to tell me what the cause is and how to fix it. Alternatively, there may be additional information you need first. If that's the case, please let me know what. Thanks, Suzanna Vidmar Senior Research Officer Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital Flemington Road Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia telephone: +61 3 9345 6372 facsimile: +61 3 9345 6000 email: suzanna.vidmar(a)mcri.edu.au <mailto:suzanna.vidmar@mcri.edu.au> www.mcri.edu.au <http://www.mcri.edu.au/> ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list

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Access violation message
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Work colleagues are entering data into an EpiData database during interviews with participants in their study. At what seems to be a random point in the interview, the following error pops up and EpiData needs to be shutdown. 'Access violation at address 0044BB8C in module 'Epidata.exe.' Read of address 00000004.' 'access violation at address 7C2F0012. Read of address 7C2F0012.' The data entered hasn't been and can't be saved. I've had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything useful. I'm hoping someone on the EpiData email list is able to tell me what the cause is and how to fix it. Alternatively, there may be additional information you need first. If that's the case, please let me know what. Thanks, Suzanna Vidmar Senior Research Officer Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital Flemington Road Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia telephone: +61 3 9345 6372 facsimile: +61 3 9345 6000 email: suzanna.vidmar(a)mcri.edu.au <mailto:suzanna.vidmar@mcri.edu.au> www.mcri.edu.au <http://www.mcri.edu.au/> ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________

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