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Experimental Release of EpiData Manager/EntryClient
by EpiData development and support 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Dear List. It is with great pleasure that we announce the next experimental release of EpiData Manager and EpiData EntryClient. The main new aspects are: 1. Controlled user login (Extended Access): With Extended Access users can have different roles in a project, some may change the structure of data and others only enter data or reset passwords for other users. This extends the security of the project from encryption of data to encryption of the whole project. For entry of data rights to edit and read data is defined at the dataform level. A full explanation of how you work with user controlled login is available from the testing download page: http://www.epidata.dk/testing.php. Anexample project is included with the installation package, this includes an extension of the "Clinical Example Project" with defined groups. A readme.txt contains user name and password. 2. Customised Statusbar: In addition to a modernised design the content of the Statusbar can now be adapted with various elements. The Dataform Information panel can display a text or contents of the currently active dataform. For those familiar with the old EpiData Entry 3.1 this is much like the "type statusbar" command of the .chk file. Please notice that as usual: DO NOT use the experimental version for routine work and do not use on your real projects. Work on copies of data. Changes to data structure and definitions will change until the features are included in public release versions. Please test the following: 1. Addition of users to the example project to defined groups. 2. Addition of groups and rights for a project you start from scratch. 3. The new statusbar Next phase of development will focus on these aspects: a. recording of what the user did after logging into a project (transaction log) b. reporting of defined groups and users in a given project. You find the experimental versions here: http://www.epidata.dk/testing.php Regards, Torsten B. Christiansen & Jens M. Lauritsen EpiData Association, Denmark.

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NEED OF HELP ON EPIDATA. DATES MANAGEMENT. RELATIVELY URGENT PLEASE
by EpiData development and support 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hello How do you handle the dates in Epidata? I want to select a database from june 2013 to july 2014 (birthdate "BD") If I do like in Epiinfo select bd > "30/04/2013" and bd < "01/08/2014" it does not work . I havez tried with and without "", or commas, and no result I HAVE BEEN STUCK FOR 3 DAYS Can you help me? Best regards Dr Pierre-Yves Robillard Réanimation néonatale et pediatrique, néonatologie Centre Hospitalier Régional Groupe Hospitalier Sud-Réunion BP 350. 97448 Saint-Pierre cedex Ile de la réunion -- Ce message a été vérifié par le CHU de la Réunion.

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Updated versions Manager 2.0.8.56 & EntryClient 2.0.6.20
by EpiData development and support 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

Dear all users New versions were placed yesterday for general download on http://www.epidata.dk/download.php Many bugs have been fixed during recent releases and we therefore encourage all to get the new versions and replace older ones. The new versions will work with all epx project files. But it is always good practice to have a backup copy if some unexpected problem shows up. The two updated versions fixes several details of related file systems and export. Related file principles are now sufficiently developed for routine use, including handling of "mark for deletion", "count by id", "compare duplicate", export etc. See the complete list of changes here: Http://epidata.dk/epidatamanager.changelog.txt Http://epidata.dk/epidataentryclient.changelog.txt Conversion from flat file systems to related structure is rather simple, provided you define the keys correctly. A step by step recipe for this will be published here later and added to the wiki system at http://epidata.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start Regards Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association, Denmark

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Export into Excel
by EpiData development and support 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Dear all, I was using the old version of EpiData. I am not a statistician. Now I wanted to use the EpiData at my new workplace, had to install the new version and am struggling with the export into Excel. The export is possible but then I get a table in Excel where everything is together, in one column. Is it a bug, will it be fixed or am I doing something wrong? I tried to read everything but I am not coming further. Please help. Thank you. Lukas

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New MOOC course features Epidata
by EpiData development and support 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Epidata list members may be interested to know that Epidata is featured in a new MOOC (Massive Open On-line course) soon to be offered as part of the by Peking University. It is called Using Software apps in epidemiological research. For those who are not familiar with MOOCS they are free on line courses, often offered by top universities and usually made up of videos, short quizzes and on-line discussion groups. They can have very large enrollment numbers. I enjoy MOOCs and have taken eight or nine already, but I can't do this one as it is in Chinese. Perhaps chinese speaking list members could try it. Here is a link. https://www.coursera.org/course/epiapps?utm_medium=email&utm_source=recomme…. best wishes Christine ______________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and remove all copies of the message, including any attachments. Any views or opinions expressed in this email (unless otherwise stated) may not represent those of Hutt Valley DHB. Thank you. ______________________________________________________________________________

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Batch conversion of .epx/.epz files to Stata
by EpiData development and support 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi! I have a large number of .epx files that require conversion to another format (Stata in this case). Is it possible to do some kind of batch conversion (using the command line tool, for example?). Thanks in advance for the help. María Rodrigo Domingo MSc, PhD, Biostatistician AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Denmark

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Information to user while working with Manager and EntryClient
by EpiData development and support 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Dear all One of the design options we are discussing internally is whether to re-design the "status-bar" at the bottom of Manager and EntryClient. For input to this design, which is now "hard-coded" we are considering implementation of a user defined mode of content. Please discuss or add viewpoints of what you would like to see on a statusbar or information toolbar. Focus on which information you would like to see, not the actual visual design. Although ideas are obviously always welcomed. e.g : key for a project, do we need field names, field types, number of sections etc. Separate the input btw. Manager and EntryClient and whether you wish to have some obligatory and other user defined. Just respond to this mail and the discussion should form a "thread" . If you recieve the digest summary form of mails from the list, then delete other non-relevant parts to make your suggestion more readable. regards before you submit your suggestions. Rember not to include pictures or similar since these are blocked in the system. Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association

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AUTO: CN=Louise Cullen/O=NWHB is out of the office. (returning 31/08/2015)
by EpiData development and support 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

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Updated versions of EpiData Manager v2.0.7.53 and EntryClient v2.0.5.17:
by EpiData development and support 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Today new versions have been released today with bug-fixes and minor additions. . Our strategy just now is to release bug-fixes, such that we can focus on development of logging and dataprotection. The EntryClient release today adds the F5 "copy field" with a user format. e.g.: %gd %gn %gf %gp %q,%d,%v%n will now add "global" information such as date and dataform name, see: http://www.epidata.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:clipboardformat Such one can now copy as well current field and whole record to clipboard. For Manager: 2.0.7.53: Texts to describe exports have been added and also a new mechanism to work with dataforms with very many fields and labels. It seems that in practice one should keep number of fields on a given form below 200. More than that will work but with longer load times for the files. A complete list of changes is always shown on the download page in one of these links: http://epidata.dk/epidatamanager.changelog.txt http://epidata.dk/epidataentryclient.changelog.txt . Please inform the list of any non-solved problems or report to the database here: http://www.epidata.info/flyspray As always if you find problems and report to the list include version information, which you easily copy to a mail from the help menu "copy version info" regards Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association

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Access violation message- still unable to open database
by EpiData development and support 12 Aug '15

12 Aug '15

Dear Jamie, Many thanks for your email. Yes there was a lock file in the folder, even though the database was not open in either manager or EntryClient. I have deleted this. Now when I try to open the database in Manager it skips the message 'this file is locked by another program' etc, instead going straight to the Access Violation message. I've used the 'Prepare for double data entry' function, but the _double database file also will not open. Any idea how I can adjust the permissions on the file? (On either Mac or PC as it won't open on either). Seeing as I can open it in EntryClient is there any way I can save this database through Entry Client and get it back to a new Manager file? Best wishes Laura

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