Administrator Settings

The CATI Supervisor module provides a GUI for controlling a range of extended options and background settings which are not accessible for a regular supervisor. These administrative settings are available on the Administration tab. As the name implies it is accessible only by persons who are granted administrative rights. This tab appears hidden for "regular" supervisors.

The Administration menu provides access to the following areas:

Settings

The Settings section - the list of options which are used for locking the interviewer account and configuring a set of reports that can be emailed on a daily basis;

System Settings

The System Settings section - a comprehensive list of database settings which allows for control over permissions, feature toggle and various feature options.

Database Update Logs

The Database Update Logs section - the list of system database updates that have been run;

Management

The Management section - the section providing possibility for a manual save of interviewer activity data;

Figure 1 - Administration menu

To access the Administration sections: 

1. Choose Admin in the Navigation menu;
2. In the drop-down list that unfolds below select the required section. This will display the section interface.

Saving Interviewer Activity Data

The Forsta system saves data regarding interviewer activity to the database regularly at the end of each specified time period. The administrating supervisor can perform this action manually whenever required.

To save interviewer activity data:

1. Choose Admin in the Navigation frame then select Management in the drop-down menu. This will display a single button and a hint, as in the picture below.



Figure 2 - Saving the interviewer activity data manually

2. Click the Flush log button. You will not be prompted, the operation is performed silently. The appropriate data will be saved to the Forsta system database.

Checking Database Update Logs

The Forsta system database is upgraded regularly. Usually such upgrade is done with the help of a script which is tailored upon each update to match current upgrade requirements. When the script is run the results of its work are recorded and can be reviewed later.

The Database Update Logs view contains the complete list of database updates performed from the moment of the fresh installation of the application up to the present moment.

To check database update logs

1. Go to the Settings tab in the Resources object menu in the Navigation frame.
2. Select the Database update logs object.

The list of database updates is displayed.

Figure 3 - Checking the database update log list

The update list view provides the following information:

• update ID;
• Script version;
• Description - short description of the changes that have been introduced by the update;
• Script applied date;
• Duration - in seconds;
• Applied on DB creation - tells whether the script was run at the moment the database was created;
• Utility version - update utility version number. Normally corresponds to the CATI Supervisor build which was current at the moment the script was applied;
• Active user - a combination of the PC network name and the user name which identifies the person who initiated the update procedure.

You can browse details of each listed update. To do this either right-click the required update item in the list and choose Details from the context menu that appears, or choose an item in the list and click the Details button on the right frame toolbar. The Details dialog opens.

Figure 4 - Checking database update details

The dialog contains further details of what was changed in the course of the update and how. In addition to the information contained in the list displayed in the right frame, this dialog provides some extra information. The most informative is the "Script" text field which contains the exact text of the script applied, and the "Script output" field which contains text output of the result of the script work.