Tips & Tricks
Category Wheel Settings
Overview The Category Wheel is a tool with many options that you can use to make the data collection run smoothly for optimal analysis, while providing dynamic and fun panelist experience. Before you start reading further on this page about the steps ...
CATA Wheel Settings
Overview The Check All That Apply (CATA) Wheel is a tool with many options that you can use to make the data collection smooth for your analysis purposes, while providing dynamic and fun panelist experience. Before you start reading further on this ...
Troubleshooting Tips
Overview In reality, things don't always go as planned, even in the perfect world of Sensory Testing :) On this page you can find some common symptoms experienced by panelists or by analysts, and solutions for addressing the symptoms and their ...
Snippets
Overview A snippet is a piece of commonly used text (with or without images) saved in the Snippets library that can be easily inserted into any of your tests or Schedules as many times as needed. Using snippets can save time by eliminating the need ...
Wildcards
Overview Compusense offers an amazing feature, called "Wildcards". Wildcards are text placeholders that you can insert in instruction screens and email texts. At the time of presentation to panelists the wildcard is dynamically replaced with the ...
Translate Analyst Software
Overview Compusense offers three levels/types of translations: Analyst software translations. Button and label translations on the panelist website. Ballot translations for the panelists. In this workflow we will focus on the first translation type; ...
Saving Files in a .csv Format
Overview Working in Compusense means that sooner or later you will need to import a .csv file to meet some of your testing needs. It could be that you need to import panelists or a custom design. We find that, depending on you MS Excel settings, when ...
Accessing Question and Attribute Options
Overview Every question type has various options available. Different question types have different options to assist you in setting up your tests in the best possible way to meet your data collection and analysis objectives. Additionally, attributes ...
Display Question Name to Panelists
Overview By default, the question names are visible only to you and other analysts in the test Build tab and in the reports. The question names are not visible to panelists unless you make them visible. Attribute names, on the other hand, are ...
Print Ballot
Overview Compusense software's primary purpose is to collect data electronically and provide built-in analysis. However, you do have the option to print the ballot (to print the questionnaire) in a .PDF format, if necessary. This feature is for ...
Create Custom Wildcards
Overview In addition to the built-in wildcards, you can create custom wildcards that are based on responses panelists have made in previous Ranking, Category, Comment, "Choose", or Sort all and Sort n questions. For example, you have a Rank question, ...
Log Panelists Out Automatically
Overview Do you ever find that some of your panelists forget to click the Finished button? You are then left with incomplete data even though likely they answered all the questions. Or do you ever find that some of your panelists forget to log out ...
Advanced Design Creating Workflow
Overview In our basic workflow for creating and importing custom designs we covered a simple example on how to create a design with a warm-up sample always being seen in the first position while other samples are randomized. By popular demand of our ...
Create and Import Custom Designs
Overview Compusense has a wide variety of pre-set experimental plans (designs) that can be added to a test to present samples in a specific order. These same designs can be used for presenting sections in a specific order. However, sometimes a need ...