weft qda users - Sep 2008 - [Weft QDA users] how to display the text from all sub-categories

Dear all,

I am new to weft-qda. I would like to know how to display the text of a 
whole category when I coded directly into sub-categories. E.g. the 
category is ''Europe'' and includes all EU member states as 
sub-categories. I coded passages of my interviews into the respective 
country sub-categories, but would like to display all text of the whole 
category ''Europe''. However when I double click it (or
highlight and then
click on view) a windows opens with now text passages in them. Dou I hve 
to code text passages on all hierarchical levels?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheerio,

Bernhard

Hi Bernhard

Bernhard Krieger wrote:
> I am new to weft-qda. I would like to know how to display the text of 
> a whole category when I coded directly into sub-categories. E.g. the 
> category is ''Europe'' and includes all EU member states as
> sub-categories. I coded passages of my interviews into the respective 
> country sub-categories, but would like to display all text of the 
> whole category ''Europe''. However when I double click it
(or highlight
> and then click on view) a windows opens with now text passages in 
> them. Dou I hve to code text passages on all hierarchical levels?
There''s no single way to do this in the current version of Weft. You 
could open each of the sub-categories in turn, use CTRL-A to select all 
text, then mark (CTRL-M) all that text with the parent category. Or you 
could use a query, something like

IS CODED BY ''France'' OR
IS CODED BY ''Netherlands'' OR
IS CODED BY ''Lithuania'' ...

Neither of these is ideal but both should work.

Incidentally, after user feedback this is addressed in Weft QDA 2: you 
can do a ''CODED BENEATH'' query to collect all marking of
subcategories,
and queries are also saved and updated to reflect changes. But I 
wouldn''t recommend Weft QDA 2 for real use just yet.

cheers
alex

Hi Alex,

Alex Fenton wrote:
> There''s no single way to do this in the current version of Weft.
You
> could open each of the sub-categories in turn, use CTRL-A to select all 
> text, then mark (CTRL-M) all that text with the parent category. Or you 
> could use a query, something like
> 
> IS CODED BY ''France'' OR
> IS CODED BY ''Netherlands'' OR
> IS CODED BY ''Lithuania'' ...
Great. Thanks for that. I think I will wait until I have coded all 
interviews first.
> Incidentally, after user feedback this is addressed in Weft QDA 2: you 
> can do a ''CODED BENEATH'' query to collect all marking of
subcategories,
> and queries are also saved and updated to reflect changes. But I 
> wouldn''t recommend Weft QDA 2 for real use just yet.
Just tried out the new version on the project site and it was not too 
stable yet. Much looking forward to seeing it work though. I also 
checked the feature request page and wondered if it would be too late to 
  ask for a context menu option for coding, i.e. highlight text, then 
click right mouse button, there access coding tree and select the 
appropriate sub/category. I think that would save the user a lot of 
clicking. Not sure though how much work that would be...

Really like the program. Thanks for all the good ruby work.

Benrhard

Bernhard Krieger wrote:
>> IS CODED BY ''France'' OR
>> IS CODED BY ''Netherlands'' OR
>> IS CODED BY ''Lithuania'' ...
>
> Great. Thanks for that. I think I will wait until I have coded all 
> interviews first.
That would seem sensible.
>> Incidentally, after user feedback this is addressed in Weft QDA 2: 
>> you can do a ''CODED BENEATH'' query to collect all
marking of
>> subcategories, and queries are also saved and updated to reflect 
>> changes. But I wouldn''t recommend Weft QDA 2 for real use just
yet.
>
> Just tried out the new version on the project site and it was not too 
> stable yet. Much looking forward to seeing it work though.
Should have a new version shortly which should be more stable and 
includes a lot of new features like media documents, undo/redo etc
> I also checked the feature request page and wondered if it would be 
> too late to  ask for a context menu option for coding, i.e. highlight 
> text, then click right mouse button, there access coding tree and 
> select the appropriate sub/category. I think that would save the user 
> a lot of clicking. Not sure though how much work that would be...
No, it''s definitely not too late to request features. It
wasn''t possible
to add context menus in Weft 1, but it''s now pretty easy, and many of 
the common elements (eg the category control, document list) now sport 
them. I''d have to give some thought to the UI for navigating through
the
tree in a context menu, but it sounds like a good idea.
> Really like the program. Thanks for all the good ruby work.
Thanks, that''s kind of you to say so.

alex

>> I also checked the feature request page and wondered if it would be 
>> too late to  ask for a context menu option for coding, i.e. highlight 
>> text, then click right mouse button, there access coding tree and 
>> select the appropriate sub/category. I think that would save the user 
>> a lot of clicking. Not sure though how much work that would be...
> No, it''s definitely not too late to request features. It
wasn''t possible
> to add context menus in Weft 1, but it''s now pretty easy, and many
of
> the common elements (eg the category control, document list) now sport 
> them. I''d have to give some thought to the UI for navigating
through the
> tree in a context menu, but it sounds like a good idea.
Context menu would save me tons of time. I have far too many 
sub/categories, so always have to click between windows.

I am curious about the new version. If you want I could do some testing 
with the data I am working on at the moment.

-b

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernhard Krieger" <blk20 at cam.ac.uk>
To: "Discussion and help for users of Weft QDA" 
<weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Weft QDA users] how to display the text from all 
sub-categories

> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Fenton wrote:
>
>> There''s no single way to do this in the current version of
Weft. You
>> could open each of the sub-categories in turn, use CTRL-A to select all
>> text, then mark (CTRL-M) all that text with the parent category. Or you
>> could use a query, something like
>>
>> IS CODED BY ''France'' OR
>> IS CODED BY ''Netherlands'' OR
>> IS CODED BY ''Lithuania'' ...
>
> Great. Thanks for that. I think I will wait until I have coded all 
> interviews first.
>
>> Incidentally, after user feedback this is addressed in Weft QDA 2: you 
>> can do a ''CODED BENEATH'' query to collect all marking
of subcategories,
>> and queries are also saved and updated to reflect changes. But I
wouldn''t
>> recommend Weft QDA 2 for real use just yet.
>
> Just tried out the new version on the project site and it was not too 
> stable yet. Much looking forward to seeing it work though. I also checked 
> the feature request page and wondered if it would be too late to ask for a 
> context menu option for coding, i.e. highlight text, then click right 
> mouse button, there access coding tree and select the appropriate 
> sub/category. I think that would save the user a lot of clicking. Not sure 
> though how much work that would be...
>
> Really like the program. Thanks for all the good ruby work.
>
> Benrhard
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Dear  Alex,

Looking forward to the new versions as well.

Best

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> >> I also checked the feature request page and wondered if it would
be
> 
> >> too late to  ask for a context menu option for coding, i.e. 
> highlight 
> >> text, then click right mouse button, there access coding tree and 
> >> select the appropriate sub/category. I think that would save the 
> user 
> >> a lot of clicking. Not sure though how much work that would be...
> > No, it''s definitely not too late to request features. It
wasn''t
> possible 
> > to add context menus in Weft 1, but it''s now pretty easy, and
many
> of 
> > the common elements (eg the category control, document list) now 
> sport 
> > them. I''d have to give some thought to the UI for navigating
through
> the 
> > tree in a context menu, but it sounds like a good idea.
> 
> Context menu would save me tons of time. I have far too many 
> sub/categories, so always have to click between windows.
> 
> I am curious about the new version. If you want I could do some 
> testing 
> with the data I am working on at the moment.
> 
> -b
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