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 in to easily identifiable categories, allowing you to quickly locate the assistance you are looking for.

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

Filtering

 Main article: Filtering

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

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

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

Conditional Formatting

Conditional Formatting Overview

 Main article: Conditional Formatting Overview

Auto Legend

 Main article: Auto Legend

User defined benchmark column

 Main article: User defined benchmark column

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

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

Verbatim Overview

 Main article: Verbatim Overview

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

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

TopN

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

User Defined Questions Overview

 Main article: User Defined Questions Overview

Applying a user defined question to another study

 Main article: Applying a user defined question to another study

Slice

Slice Overview

 Main article: Slice Overview

Importing a SLICE file into SPSS

 Main article: Importing a SLICE file into SPSS

Charts

Correspondence analysis

 Main article: Correspondence analysis

Save/Export

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