Making Changes in the Contents of the Data Files

Generating the Citation Requirement

A citation requirement can be added to text files with the "Add text -> Add citation requirement" button. The citation requirement is defined in the meF file of the study.

NB! If a citation requirement already exists and is not identical to the one defined in the meF file, the program will not overwrite the existing citation requirement but simply adds a new one . To remove the old citation requirement text, use the "Search and replace" feature (Original text: Old citation req. New text: empty field

Adding Free Text and the Search and Replace Feature

Free text can be added in front of every data file can be added by selecting "Add text -> Add free text" This command can be utilized when adding headers in the front of every data file.

The search and replace feature ("Add text -> Replace text") searches for the input text in the "Original text" field in all text files and replaces all occurences with the input text in the "New text" field.

Creating a Header List

Kvalikirstu2 can also handle studies that are not in odt or txt format.

After selecting the study press "Create header list". This will open a text window, where headers are written. Type each header on its own row. Do not add a colon after each header.

Kvalikirstu2 then creates a new text file, with a header paragraph for each file in the data folder. Fill out the background information for each paragraph. Kvalikirstu2 also adds a "Data file" header for each paragraph that defines the path of the data file. The path is given relative to the .txt file.

As an example let's examine an imaginary study with three images as subjects, along with some metadata.
The file has been selected and a header list was added with headers "Name", "Camera", "Lens" and "Description". The generated file has been filled out with the metadata in the study.
In this case the text file should look like this:

Header example



Editing Background Information Headers and Values

The headers recognized by Kvalikirstu2 will show up in the list in the main window when the study is selected. If the spelling of a header is not identical in all files (e.g. "Gender", "gender"), these headers will displayed in separate columns in the index. To display them in the same column, you need to correct the spelling. Click twice on the header you want to edit, make the change and confirm with Enter key.

The values related to the header can be displayed with the button "Background information". Values are edited similar to header names. Changes to multiple lines can be done by selecting multiple lines and then pressing "Give a new value for all selected".

If you want to write changes to headers into data files, select "Save" -> "Save changes to daF". Otherwise your changes will only be displayed in the index.

Date format: If the background information contains date values, it must be in format 'DDMMYYYY' (e.g. 16.03.1990, 1/5/2017) so that sorting a column by date works correctly in the index.