What's New
ASTEROID v4 contains a number of new features.
Grid View and Excel compatibility enhancements
Customize ASTEROID outputs to match corporate standards and/or personal preferences.
Excel look and feel.
- Grid view can be set as default
- Control data display in Grid view outputs
- What data to be displayed
- Sample size / Projected population
- Vertical / Horizontal / Layer percentages plus Index score
- Appearance of the data
- Font size and typeface
- Number display
- Text alignment
- Borders and Patterns
- Save formats as Templates - Default or Table specific
- Layers displayed as Tabs in Grid view
- Create and Save templates for Graph outputs
- Exchange Grid view and Graph outputs with other applications
- Save Grid view output as Excel (preserves all formatting)
- Create HTML page of Grid view output
- Save picture from Graph outputs (JPEG, WMF or BMP)
Report Folder
Save common ASTEROID tasks in report folders to simplify management and recall.
Report Folder.
- Manage ASTEROID tasks into "folders"
- Save a "Report Folder" containing several tasks for later recall
- Any ASTEROID task (Tabulation/Profiler/AID/Media Schedule) may be saved
- Specify primary task output (Report/Grid view/Graph view)
- Linked Grid and Graph templates allow reproduction of Grid view and Graph output
- Re-run any saved task to re-produce the previous output (including formatting)
- Re-run tasks on a different (compatible) database for tracking or comparative studies
- Re-run tasks on the new version of the Single Source database
- Activate and work with any task in the ASTEROID dialogs
- Manage properties of tasks saved in folder:
- Task name
- View type (Report/Grid/Graph)
- Database restriction (lock a task to a specific database)
- Grid template
- Graph template, chart type, number type, include total column
- Power users may edit the ASTEROID task specification (SPC)
- Re-Order the sequence of tasks in the "folder" / Delete tasks.
Enhanced Navigation (Explorer style dictionary)
Windows Explorer look and feel.
- Drag & Drop functionality when
- selecting variable and group items
- re-ordering selected items
- Improved Find functionality
- Able to search Globally within Variables or Groups
- Last search result preserved
- All searches saved for future use
- Available across all sessions for the same database
- Context Menu (Right Mouse click)
- Operates differently within the Variable, Group and Selection screens
- Bookmark function
- Create a bookmark for commonly selected variables
- Select variables from the bookmark list
- Always available unless deleted
- Available across all sessions for the same database
- Trace-back function
- Minimises search through data menu
- Opens the data menu to the variable containing the selection
- Ideal when wanting to change selection within the same variable
- Properties provide
- Question text definition (if available)
- Technical variable definition (for power users)
- Filters
- Able to select AND/OR/NOT while highlighting a group
- Group items selected are greyed-out
- Minimises errors in selection
- Context Sensitive Help
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