[DDI-users] Release of Canard v0.2.1 (Multilingual enhancements & Bug fixes)

[Samuel Spencer]

Hi all,

Very shortly after the last release a few inconvenient bug were found
regarding the additional of new languages to questions and statement.
Fortunately, these have been fixed and a new version Canard v0.2.1 has been
released here - http://bit.ly/canard_v021

The full release notes are included above, however the main features are
improved convenience when dealing with multilingual issues and a one-click
link to lodge bugs (feel free to use this very liberally). Later this week
I'll record a tutorial video focusing on the new features and upload with
the rest of Canard tutorial videos here - the http://bit.ly/CanardVideos.

Also, since the last release there have been a handful of people who I've
been in contact with regarding custom DDI plugins which have worked to
varying (but positive) degrees of success for import and export. Work
should be continued on these DDI/SQBL XSLT transforms, along with other
formats, to help quickly produce structured questionnaire specification and
metadata-rich documentation.

Rather than continue to cruft up the DDI lists, I'll try and restrict
announcements of (non-DDI focused) new releases to the SQBL Mailing List (
http://bit.ly/SQBL_ml) and the Canard GitHub (http://bit.ly/canard_releases)
page. But any releases with a strong DDI focus (such as plugin
enhancements) will continue to be announced here. So feel free to sign-up
there to keep up to date with new releases, discuss enhancements or discuss
new plugins.

Cheers,
Sam.


On 30 September 2013 21:08, Samuel Spencer <sam at sqbl.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There has been a new release of the Canard Question Module Editor
> http://bit.ly/canard_v02
>
> The biggest addition to this release is the ability to import and export
> DDI-Lifecycle 3.1 documents - this is in no small part to the expertise of
> Olof Olsson whose knowledge of XSLT were invaluable in producing DDI<->SQBL
> conversion.
>
> This addition provides the ability to quickly and easily generate
> questionnaires in real-time with live questionnaire preview that can then
> be converted to and stored as DDI.
>
> This functionality can be seen in the tutorial videos online:
> http://bit.ly/14wO21u
> This playlist includes videos demonstrating how to create basic questions,
> questions with complex responses, simple logical flow and dynamic text with
> word substitutions, all in a easy to use, click-and-drag,
> what-you-see-is-what-you-mean user interface.
>
> Currently functional in this release:
>
>    - Dynamic text and word substitutions in question text and statements
>    - Nested branching and complex routing within surveys
>    - Three types of basic response type:
>       - Text - with optional enforcement of minimum and maximum response
>       length
>       - Number - with optional enforcement of minimum and maximum values,
>       with required step values
>       - Codelists - with the ability to indicate a minimum and maximum
>       number of choices
>    - While also allowing for complex response types:
>       - Question Groups - allow for tightly linked questions with
>       different responses to be brought together.
>       - Individual questions can have subquestions and multiple responses
>       to capture complex lists and grids of responses quickly.
>    - Live preview of question routing and example form instances using
>    Graphviz and XForms.
>    - Plugin support to extend *import and export* functionality
>       - This release includes plugins for DDI3.1<http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/3.1/> import
>       and export
>
> You can download the windows executable here: http://bit.ly/canard_v02
> A Mac OSX application should be coming very shortly.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam.
>
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