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The excel report standard format is sorted by count?

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7:03
June 25, 2008


Ulrik S

Member

Copenhagen

posts 34

Hi SG,

When I draw a report on a single radiobutton or checkbox question, I get the responses out in excel sorted by count. So the options that have recieved most responses are in the top of the table and the ones with least are at the bottom. Is there a reason for this? I would much rather have them shown the way I constructed the question, so that I can copy paste the data easily into a premade calculation sheet.

Is there any way to change the report so that it shows the responses in the same order as the survey was designed?

Also I think I mentioned this before and got an answer, it is crucial to be able to see what options in such questions have not recieved any responses. At the moment they are simply left out of the report.

Thanks for the support. I am about to lauch my first data collection for our consultancy product and can not wait to see how it goes.

/Ulrik

2:32
June 25, 2008


Chad

Moderator

posts 739

Hi Ulrik,
We actually do have an option in reporting to display question options in their original order. Just ‘Modify’ your report and under Options select “For multiple choice questions, display answers in original question order (rather than by frequency)”.

Non-answered question options were originally removed to save on space and improve readability. This functionality is fairly deep rooted in our system and will not be a simple change.

That being said we do plan on adding this feature, but it may not happen until our full upgrade of reporting that will happen before the end of this year.

Hope this helps,
Chad

5:06
July 30, 2008


Ulrik S

Member

Copenhagen

posts 34

Thanks for the answer. I am back from holiday now.

It is too bad that I cannot see the options not chosen in the excel report format. This leaves me with a format that is virtually unusable in professional terms since I would manually have to examine each and every question for unanswered options and add them into the sheet manually to be able to pull out any graphs or use the information in any other way than the original report.

4:59
July 30, 2008


Mario

Moderator

Boulder, CO

posts 555

The workaround is to submit a response yourself and fill in every box, thus creating a generic row on the export to csv that forces every column to appear. deleting that row would keep your data clean in the csv file, allowing you to process it however you prefer. As Chad stated, this is expected to be an option in surveygizmo version 2 to allow empty columns to be included.

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