MTAB Knowledge Base

MTAB Knowledge Base

A collection of in depth articles, describing the many features that mTAB has to offer and explaining how they should best be used. We have broken up these articles into easily identifiable categories, allowing you to quickly locate the assistance you are looking for.

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Administration

Changing your mTAB password

Main article: Changing your mTAB password

Retrieving your mTAB password

Main article: Retrieving your mTAB password

Security Features

Main article: Security Features

Save the .JNLP message when launching mTAB

Main article: Save the .JNLP message when launching mTAB

Clearing the mTAB cache

Main article: Clearing the mTAB cache

Filter

Main article: Filter Overview

The ability to filter allows the mTAB user to eliminate from a tab all respondents who do not match the filter criteria.

Filter description options

Main article: Filter description options

Filter Logic

Main article: Filter Logic

Ignore Filter

Main article: Ignore Filter

This feature allows users to compare FILTERED and UNFILTERED columns of data side by side within the same mTAB spreadsheet view.

Format

Main article: Format Overview

Selecting a format style

Main article: Selecting a format style

Maximum and Minimum

Main article: Maximum and Minimum

Creating a new format style

Main article: Creating a new format style

Subset remainder question format

Main article: Subset remainder question format

Quartile formats

Main article: Quartile formats

Layer

Main article: Layer Overview

Introduction to layer

Main article: Introduction to layer

Selecting an alternative weight with multiple studies

Main article: Selecting an alternative weight with multiple studies

How to edit short study descriptions

Main article: How to edit short study descriptions

Recode

Main article: Recode Overview

Importing new labels into a recode

Main article: Importing new labels into a recode

Auto create recode across selected studies

Main article: Auto create recode across selected studies

Create recode new labels from base questions subset

Main article: Create recode new labels from base questions subset

Recode auto map dialog

Main article: Recode auto map dialog

Sorting in the recode editor

Main article: Sorting in the recode editor

Saving a draft recode

Main article: Saving a draft recode

Auto map, parsing stat values, saving

Main article: Auto map, parsing stat values, saving

Enhanced copy old to new in recode editor

Main article: Enhanced copy old to new in recode editor

Verbatim Responses

Main article: Verbatim Overview

How to use verbatim questions

Main article: How to use verbatim questions

Bigrams, Trigrams and Porter Stemming

Main article: Bigrams, Trigrams and Porter Stemming

Tag Clouds

Main article: Tag Clouds

Selected column tag cloud

Main article: Selected column tag cloud

Tag cloud frequencies

Main article: Tag cloud frequencies

Tag cloud breadcrumbs

Main article: Tag cloud breadcrumbs

Verbatim Filtering

Main article: Verbatim Filtering

Spreadsheet

Main article: Spreadsheet Overview

Applying a conditional format

Main article: Applying a conditional format

Conditional formatting - Auto Legend

Main article: Conditional formatting - Auto Legend

Conditional formatting - User defined benchmark column

Main article: Conditional formatting - User defined benchmark column

Interpreting K-means cluster analysis

Main article: Interpreting K-means cluster analysis

Simplified datasheet

Main article: Simplified datasheet

Support for URL's in spreadsheet

Main article: Support for URL's in spreadsheet

Sorting by question response labels

Main article: Sorting by question response labels

Spreadsheet Search/Replace Feature

Main article: Spreadsheet Search/Replace Feature

Text orientation in the spreadsheet

Main article: Text orientation in the spreadsheet

Subset

Main article: Subset Overview

TopN

Main article: TopN Overview

TopN report in layer outside worksheets

Main article: TopN report in layer outside worksheets

Colorization

Main article: Colorization

TopN in the spreadsheet view

Main article: TopN in the spreadsheet view

TopN additional data type analysis

Main article: TopN additional data type analysis

User Defined Questions

Main article: User Defined Questions Overview

Creating a user defined question

Main article: Creating a user defined question

Applying a user defined question to another study

Main article: Applying a user defined question to another study

Updating a user defined question

Main article: Updating a user defined question

Update new question responses in a user defined question

Main article: Update new question responses in a user defined question

Slice

Main article: Slice Overview

How to use Slice

Main article: How to use Slice

Importing a SLICE file into SPSS

Main article: Importing a SLICE file into SPSS

Sig Testing/Statistics

Main article: Sig Testing/Statistics Overview

Statistical formulas documentation

Main article: Statistical formulas documentation

Variations in means/statistical calculations

Main article: Variations in means/statistical calculations

Spreadsheet view - rounding differences explained

Main article: Spreadsheet view - rounding differences explained

Significance testing

Main article: Significance testing

Significance testing - Adjacent columns

Main article: Significance testing - Adjacent columns

Significance testing - Top/Bottom box

Main article: Significance testing - Top/Bottom box

Charts

Main article: Charts Overview

Correspondence analysis

Main article: Correspondence analysis

Save/Export

Main article: Save/Export Overview

Ability to export spreadsheet as an XML

Main article: Ability to export spreadsheet as an XML

Tab saving dialog

Main article: Tab saving dialog

Publish tabs to selected users

Main article: Publish tabs to selected users

MyTabs sort by date

Main article: MyTabs sort by date

Creating a folder structure in studies and mytabs lists

Main article: Creating a folder structure in studies and mytabs lists

Other

Question nesting in mTAB

Main article: Question nesting in mTAB

Optimizing Java for mTAB

Main article: Optimizing Java for mTAB

Batch Run

Main article: Batch Run

Understanding the icons in mTAB

Main article: Understanding the icons in mTAB

Loyalty/Source of Sales

Main article: Loyalty/Source of Sales

Overview: mTAB User Interface

Main article: Overview: mTAB User Interface

Group Questions

Main article: Group Questions

Hide topics/questions in the question view

Main article: Hide topics/questions in the question view

Meaning of (MK)(G1)?

Main article: Meaning of (MK)(G1)?

Use of the GROUP uniquing options

Main article: Use of the GROUP uniquing options

Setting the default to the column pane

Main article: Setting the default to the column pane

Videos

Tutorials

Main article: Tutorials

Webinars

Main article: Webinars