Suspend and resume options

[jarvis24]

[edited from support email]
Sometimes we start to run an experiment and then need to exit out and then later want to return to the same experiment. It seems like if we go back into the experiment again, Media Lab will just overwrite the previous data (if we skip over questionnaires previously administered). At this point, then, would you recommend administering questionnaires individually instead of the experiment? Similarly, if a subject wants to go back to earlier questions, it seems that you have to re-administer the questions that the subject has already answered. Is there any way for Media Lab to “remember” the subject’s previous responses?

[jarvis24]

In a future version I am sure we will have a suspend and resume option, as well as the ability to go back and forth between questions without doing those questions over.

In the mean time, if you are familiar with the Advanced Features, you could rig the responses.xls file to create a suspend and resume type of result. You could create a special responses.xls file that tracks all your variables. If you end a session early--e.g., by pressing ctrl+alt+right, you will get a report version of the responses.xls file that you could use next time they come. On the subsequent session, you could copy their report and rename it "responses.xls" in the main folder and re-run the session. With a few clever skips, you could have MediaLab skipping over the sections they have already done, so that they start where they left off. And when they DO finish, you have all the data saved in the subjects' final xls report file. Not as easy as a suspend and resume but it would work.

[katbert]

Did this function ever get implemented?

[jarvis24]

No, but we are working on this for the next version.