Visualvalue function for alpha item

[htuser]

Dear cspro developers team,
I would like to implement non-response follow up, also for field errors corrections. It's because i'm thinking about some tracking logic using external dictionnary, writecase in modify mode. This will allow us, for each case to track which item have been modified? Who modified it?When this case have been modified?

It would be easy if visualvalue function could be used for alpha item.
For each item i could write something like this in postproc: if $= visualvalue($) then,
else writecase (external dcf,$) endif;

Please can you share with us some good ideas about?

Thanks in advance,

[romain]

Hello all
I think that this preoccupation is important and I'm interested in solutions. Similarly, I would like to add at this topic how to view the different error messages that were displayed to the interviewer during the interview.

[jfigueroa]

Hello everyone,
There is a file generated by CSPro that has ".lst" extension. According to Windows description, is a MASM Listing (.lst) type file where maybe you can find useful information such as:
- Survey Date
- Start Time
- End Time
Also:
- What messages were displayed to the operator
- numbered and unnumbered messages
And other info...

The name of the file is the same as your Input Data file. So it would be such as "MyInputDataFile.dat.lst"
To view the info of it I use a text editor such as "TextPad" or you can use whichever of your choice.

Hope this info helps you.
Regards.

[htuser]

Thank you Figueora,
I want to track all's change with external dictionnary.
Greg already give us the response for my post:

You don’t have to use visualvalue for alpha fields because by default you always get the visualvalue. I’m not sure why the initial CSPro programmers decided it should be that way, but as programmed, visualvalue only applies to numeric fields. To figure out if an alpha field has not been entered, you could use the highlighted function.

If you want to check if an alpha field has been modified, you could do something like this:

PROC ALPHA_FIELD

preproc

string initialValue = ALPHA_FIELD;

postproc

if initialValue <> ALPHA_FIELD then
// do something
endif;

I will try Greg's advise soon .

Regards,

[jfigueroa]

You are right htuser, Gregory´s advise looks very useful.

Thank you so much for sharing.
Regards.