{"id":626,"date":"2011-04-13T04:06:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T08:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2011-04-13T04:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T08:11:16","slug":"easier-to-get-started-and-to-give-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/easier-to-get-started-and-to-give-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Easier to &#8220;Get Started&#8221; and to give feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is easier than ever to get started with SOFA Statistics. A new &#8220;Get Started&#8221; button has been added to the main form and other buttons have been shifted to better emphasise the most important:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/getting_started.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/getting_started.gif\" alt=\"New &quot;Get Started&quot; button\" title=\"New &quot;Get Started&quot; button\" width=\"430\" height=\"672\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-634\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the &#8220;Get Started&#8221; button open a web page with screen shots and step-by-step examples.<\/p>\n<p>It is now easy for first-time users to give their feedback. Was it as useful as they hoped? Is there anything which can be done to improve SOFA? There is a link on the main start form, plus a pop-up option on first exit from SOFA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/feedback.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/feedback.jpg\" alt=\"Feedback via simple Google Docs survey\" title=\"Feedback via simple Google Docs survey\" width=\"430\" height=\"678\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/feedback.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/feedback-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goal is to make SOFA more useful by finding out what worked, and didn&#8217;t for users &#8211; especially first-time users.<\/p>\n<p>There were two other changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When importing csv files, SOFA now sets the default for &#8216;Has header row?&#8217; according to a review of the sample contents.<\/li>\n<li>And an Exit control has been added to all forms where appropriate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once again, there have been a number of bug fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed postgresql quoting error by using single quote values.<\/li>\n<li>SOFA now uses the default database when making an initial connection. If connecting to a project fails, SOFA reverts to previous project. Postgresql projects insist on default database if user is not &#8216;postgres&#8217;. Gives useful error if an old project has this problem.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed minor bug in Mann-Whitney output exposed whenever labels with %s in them were used.<\/li>\n<li>Improved error trapping if error importing wx.lib.iewin.<\/li>\n<li>Better font for help text on main form according to platform.<\/li>\n<li>CSV importing copes with single-row data.<\/li>\n<li>Better font settings for help text on Macs.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed display bug in Mac when more than 20 values warning shown (smaller font now).<\/li>\n<li>Chart by now filters out data lacking values in chart by variable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most important thing for the project is the feedback we will hopefully receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is easier than ever to get started with SOFA Statistics. 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It is now easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}