[O Brooks]

Hi there,

I would be grateful for some advice about producing a coding summary. Specifically, I would like to be able to produce a report which gives me all the text coded to every tree node I have used for a group of transcripts (in this case I am doing family case studies and have an interview transcript for each family member e.g. mother, father, son, daughter).

As I understand it, there are two ways that I can do this. I can produce a coding summary or a run a coding query. However neither of these options seems to bring up the data in the format I need. What I would like is a report where the text coded to every tree node used is detailed under each node heading and the interview the text is taken from is clearly labelled (e.g. under each node, I would be able to see all of the text coded to the node for each family member).

However, when I produce a coding summary for a family across every node, the report lists all of the text coded for family member A, then family member B and so on, rather than keeping everything different family members have said in relation to each node together.

Any advice on this would be very welcome!

Thanks,

Oona

[QSR Support]

Hi Oona,

You can export node by right-clicking on the node via the List View you can choose to Export the Node. You then get to choose various export options (choose to export in 'Reference View'). Click OK and you'll find you have a very presentable document titled <node name>.doc in the folder into which you chose to export the Node.

You can also export several Nodes at a time by selecting the Nodes via the List View and choosing to Export. A separate document for each Node will be generated.
Once you have exported your Nodes into Microsoft Word documents or Rich Text Files, you can combine these into a single document using Microsoft Word as below:
1. Open one of your documents or files in Microsoft Word.
2. On the Insert menu, select File.
3. Select the documents or files for the nodes you exported and would like to insert.
4. Click Insert.

This will insert the contents of the documents and/or files you selected into the open document. Refer to Microsoft Office Online Help for more details.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you require any further assistance with this technique.

Regards,
Arif Khatri

[Pat Bazeley]

Oona,
What you will need to do is to make sure all the text for each case study is coded to the same case node. (I fyou want to separate out different people's persepctives at some time, then use sets to hold all mother docs, all father docs, etc).
THen, run a matrix query in which you put case nodes in the rows and the nodes you are interested in reporting on in the columns, leaving AND in the matrix option. WHen you run it, you will find your data sorted by node X family, with each person's contribution listed in sequence within the node. THe easiest way to print the result (if you must! - I always prefer to work on screen so I can check other coding using the stripes, retrieve context, and/or make adjustments to the coding) would be to copy and paste the text from the cells into a WOrd doc, or print from directly from the detail view for each (File menu).
Pat