Our WinCross clients are our best source for enhancements. WinCross 22, has incorporated many of those client suggested new features. Our goal is to create a better WinCross experience.
New Feature Highlights for WinCross V22
Now located under Run | Charts where all chart setup and options are conveniently placed in one location.
Another way to access the Create Charts dialog box is to select the pie chart icon on the vertical panel towards the right side of the screen.
This update allows a more powerful and user-friendly experience.
NOTE: Previous chart (.cht) files are not compatible with WinCross version 22.
Located under Run | Tables and select the Advanced tab, this option allows you to run multiple banners and tables in a specific order. Once you pick a banner and the tables you want run for that banner, select Add Selection.
This option is similar to interweave banners, however the order in which the tables are selected is how they will be presented once you run a report.
In Setup | Banners, you are now able to include statistic options such as mode, minimum, maximum, volumetric, etc.
1. Select a banner you want to add these options to and select Edit Banner.
2. Select Statistics within Banner Options tab.
3. Now, choose which statistics to include in your banner.
New table option ‘PO’ allows the user to create a summary table i.e., top box summary, without having to create hidden percentage off of rows.
1. Select the tables you want to include in your summary table and select Summary of Frequencies.
2. Enter the code value of what you want tested for your summary table (4 – Top Box)and enter the range of values for the percentaging base (1-4). The only difference is you will now select the Use Percentage Off table option.
In the jobfile, instead of showing the hidden percentage off rows, you will now see the table filter PO (1-4).
TIPS:
This option is a solution when simple logic is being used and there are no other filtersfor the percentage off rows.
Percentage Off table option will not work if there is more complex logic included in the rows (e.g., AND or OR logic).
Located under Tools | Program Options creates a backup file anytime the job file is saved. Number of backup files can be adjusted or turned off under program options.
Once the specified number of backups is reached, WinCross will replace the oldest backup file with the most recent save.
All backup files will show as jobfile(AutoBackup timestamp).job.
Within Banner Editor, select one or more columns you would like to edit the width of. Then select the Width and Spacing tab in the editor window. Type in how many characters wide you would like the selected columns to be.
The max banner column width has been increased from 100 characters to 5,000 characters.
Tables are labeled starting with a capital “T” in the first position of a given line. WinCross 22 table titles have been increased to allow 100 characters rather than 11 from previous versions. Table titles are followed by a caret (^) and an index number. If you do not specify a table index number, WinCross will automatically provide one.
Now when running multiple memorized reports (.wmr) that reference the same data file, the data file doesn’t reload after each report. This greatly reduces running time for large studies. For example, a 1 GB data file will only need to be loaded once instead of in the past having to be reloaded for each report. If the reports reference different data files WinCross closes the open data file and then loads the new data file.
WinCross 22 is compatible with SPSS version 28. For compatibility with WinCross, we recommend saving files in SPSS using Locale (code page) encoding.