Tool for Locating Incomplete Cases

[Gregory Martin]

A new tool has been posted on the Tools page. It allows you to quickly identify which of your data files have partially saved (incomplete) cases in them. It does this by searching all the .sts (status) files in a directory or group of directories.

This tool may be useful for people coordinating data entry in a large survey or census operation. Towards the end of data entry you will definitely want to make sure that there are no partial cases in the data files.

[lls]

Thank you for sharing this tool.

I tried to open it but I got an error message (see below).
I don't understand what is the problem. Does the tool need to be open from a certain location, as a folder containing data files?
Also, I did not find any .sts file in my CSPro application folders.


The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorect.

[Gregory Martin]

On the Tools page there is a link at the top for a series of files to download that relate to Microsoft's .NET framework. These is necessary to run this tool. If this doesn't work, run Windows Update several times to make sure that you have the latest versions of the .NET libraries.

The .sts file will not be in your application folder but will in the folder where all your data files are.

[lls]

Many thanks for the advice.

Unfortunately, the 'Locate Incomplete Cases' tool still fails to launch.
Updating windows and putting the files on the same folder did not fix the problem.

Other tools such as 'CSProCodeColorizer' do work fine though.

[Gregory Martin]

Try to download this again. I recompiled it on the computer where I created the CSProCodeColorizer (a Windows XP machine that uses different libraries than my Windows 7 machine) , so maybe it will work now.

http://www.csprousers.org/downloads/too ... eCases.zip

[lls]

Thank you very much.

The tool is now working fine and is indeed very usefull.