MediaLab Version 2006.1

[jarvis24]

Added internal site license for London Business School (UK)

[jarvis24]

Fixed a fairly rare issue with thought listings. If greater than 13 thoughts were being listed and the questionnaire containing the item was being timed at the experiment level and a responses.xls file was being used and time ran out then the item wouldn't end properly--you'd go into a feedback/prompt loop or an error would be generated. This is fixed.

Added internal site license for University of Washington Business School.

[jarvis24]

Until now, when inserting a variable into subsequent question wording (e.g., Hello <name>, welcome to the experiment!>, the variable being used had to be all lowercase. From 2006.1.20 on, this is no longer a constraint--any combination of upper and lower will work.

See: showthread.php?p=114&posted=1#post114

[jarvis24]

Fixed spacebar conflict that could occur between MediaLab and HTML items using ASP or other script, or that use the POST or GET methods of data submission.

see: showthread.php?p=162&posted=1#post162

[jarvis24]

Added IP codes for Texas Christian University

[jarvis24]

Fixed case sensitivity problem when referencing variables in a custom html item.
Added IP licensing for Lancaster University, UK

[jarvis24]

Two minor tweaks re custom items. Some code will generate "%26" as the delimiter for posted data which is a fancy (hex value) way of saying "&" which is what MediaLab expects. MediaLab will now accept "%26" as well. Nobody is going to care about this but I'm saying it anyways.

Also, in cases where multiple values are passed through a post command, the variable names can simply be listed in any questionnaire as a custom item with no filename. MediaLab will automatically skip such items but will write the data from a posted variable to that item's spot in the data file.

Documentation on preparing custom items is almost ready--it's really easy now to create almost any kind of custom item.