Export database to 2nd user with existing SOFA projects

[Alastair Gordon]

 Hi Grant,

I have introduced SOFA to a few users here in my organisation in Timor-Leste, and we have analysed a couple of surveys. Now I would like to export the data from a new survey and get several people on different computers to work on it. I saw the backup instructions on the website, but this applies to copying to "clean" SOFA installations -- our users will have 1-2 surveys already on their computers so I don't want to mess up labels etc. from those.

I could just export the data as a spreadsheet, and re-import that but it would not have all the Question/ and Value labels, notes etc. and as far as I can see there is no way to export/import associated value/variable labels (as in SPSS).

Any suggestions? (As an aside, we corresponded a while back on possibilities for bulk entry of value label such that (e.g.) QA, QB, QC can all have the values 1=Agree, 2=Neutral, 3=Disagree entered simultaneously..... any progress on this one? I realise that there is a copy/paste workaround, but I am very wary or letting our users fiddle with python code!!

Cheers,

Alastair

[Grant Paton-Simpson]

Hi Alastair,

All the metadata (variable and value labels etc) are in portable text files under your sofastats/vdts folder. You are probably using the default one "general_var_dets.vdt" but I can help you make a special one if you want. If students replace their existing vdt file with yours and open SOFA they should see everything like you. Success?

All the best,
Grant

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