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The [PREFERENCES] section of the job file contains the job preferences. Preferences are established when you create a new job using the File|New Job and select a Profile Setting.
Default preferences are stored in the PROGRAM.INI file located in your C:\Documents and Settings\Username \Application Data\WinCross or C:\Users\Username\AppData\
Roaming\WinCross folder, depending on your operating system. This file is updated each time WinCross is used. While it is permissible to leave this section blank, you must have a [PREFERENCES] section title in your job file.
This section appears as follows in the EXAMPLE-VARIABLE.JOB file:
[PREFERENCES]
132,120,25,60,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5,1,8,360,648,360,648,9,10,11,6,25,120,3,7,99,12,720,720,1,0,Courier New,13,14,15
NB,PC,TC,CT,TT,BC,CF,SC,SH,^-,%-,CB,T3,LA,BL,QA,BS,FH,MH,TF
MEAN,MEDIAN,STANDARD DEVIATION,STANDARD ERROR,N,Grouped Median
STATISTIC BASE,MODE,1ST QUARTILE,3RD QUARTILE,CHI-SQUARE|SIGNIFICANCE,MINIMUM,MAXIMUM,EFFECTIVE SAMPLE SIZE
TOTAL,TOTAL ANSWERING,NO ANSWER,SIGMA,UNWEIGHTED BASE,EFFECTIVE SAMPLE SIZE,#C PERCENTILE
OW,OR,OV,OB,S2,P1,V2,SA,SP
TOTAL^TN^0
Required line (blank line for this example)
A [PREFERENCES] section must have six lines (although default wording physically occupies lines 3-5 in the example above, it is only counted as a single line for this discussion). Each line is explained as follows, with actual values from EXAMPLE-VARIABLE.JOB shown in parentheses:
Line 1
The numbers in the first line denote report width (132), table title width (120), row width (25) and lines per page (60). The next eight numbers represent a portion of the original statistic order (1-8), followed by the original summary row order (1-5), then the records per case (1) and default font size (8). The left, right, top and bottom margins for XML report output (in twips; 1440=1 in.) represent the next four values (360,648,360,648), followed by three statistic (9,10,11) positions, the last original summary row order (6), an unused position (formerly used for the default row text width for XML report formatting) (0) and default table title width (120) for XML report formatting. The next four numbers represent significance line count (3), last summary row position (7), sig items per line (99) and another statistic row position (12). The ASCII print left margin (720) and the ASCII print top margin (720) in twips represent the next two values. The next three values are font print options, font style (1), font color (0) and font type (Courier New). The last three values are the last 3 statistic row options.
Line 2
The second line denotes the summary row formatting options (NB), and other table preferences (NB,PC,TC,CT,TT,BC,CF,SC,SH,^-,%-,CB,T3,LA,BL, QA,BS,FH,MH,TF) described next.
Summary Row Options
FP = Show filter on every page (first page of table)
FB = Show filter on bottom of page (top of page)
TP = Show total answering on every page (first page of table)
TB = Show total answering on bottom of page (top of page)
NP = Show no answer on every page (first page of table)
NB = Show no answer on bottom of page (top of page)
SP = Show sigma on every page (first page of table)
SB = Show sigma on bottom of page (top of page)
QP = Show total on every page (first page of table)
QB = Show total on bottom of page (top of page)
UP = Show unweighted total on every page (first page of table)
UB = Show unweighted total on bottom of page (top of page)
XP = Show effective sample size on every page (first page of table)
XB = Show effective sample size on bottom of page (top of page)
Other Table Preferences
PN = No page numbers
PC = Page number continuously
PR = Restart page numbering with each table
TC = Table of contents
CT = Center table
TT = Center table titles
CB = Center table filter titles
BC = Center banner titles
CF = Center banner filter titles
PO = Portrait
LA = Landscape
BH = Hide Table grid lines (XML output)
FH = Hide Frequency grid lines
BL = Show blank lines between rows
BS = Show table grid lines (XML output)
FS = Show Frequency grid lines
SH = Show Blank Cell Characters
SD = Show date of run
ST = Show time of run
PM = Show time of run as AM/PM
SC = Show dashes
SK = Show dashes in every line of cell
SN = Suppress table number
HT = Suppress blank tables
RP = Treat weights as replicates
RU = Round up decimal values of 5 or more
T1 = Table number left justified
T2 = Table number center justified
T3 = Table number right justified
TF = Shrink all tables by same amount
TS = Shrink only tables that are too wide
TW = Do not shrink tables
QA = Sort quartiles ascending
QD = Sort quartiles descending
QM = Compute Medoid for Median and Quartile options
^- = Blank cell character (default)
%- = Blank column character (default)
Small Sample Size
DDO = Denote display of column values
DOV = Suppress display of column values
DCF# = Denote/Suppress display of column values when the Frequency (base) equals #
DCE# = Denote/Suppress display of column values when the Effective sample size equals #
DCP# = Denote/Suppress display of column values when the Horizontal percent equals #
DDE = Denote display of cell values
DEV = Suppress display of cell values
DFS# = Denote/Suppress display of cell values when the Frequency equals #
DPV# = Denote/Suppress display of cell values when the Vertical percent equals #
DPH# = Denote/Suppress display of cell values when the Horizontal percent equals #
DPC# = Denote/Suppress display of cell values when the Constant percent equals #
DIZ = Show suppression text for blank cells
DLD# = Display text in denoted/suppressed cells (# = text to display)
DFN = Show footnote about denoted/suppressed cells
SOV = Suppress statistical testing for columns
SCF# = Suppress statistical testing for columns when the Frequency (base) equals #
SCE# = Suppress statistical testing for columns when the Effective sample size equals #
SCP# = Suppress statistical testing for columns when the Horizontal percent equals #
SEV = Suppress statistical testing for cells
SFS# = Suppress statistical testing for cells when the Frequency equals #
SPV# = Suppress statistical testing for cells when the Vertical percent equals #
SPH# = Suppress statistical testing for cells when the Horizontal percent equals #
SLD# = Display text in suppressed statistical testing cells (# = text to display)
SFN = Show footnote about suppressed statistical testing
Significance Indicator Order
SOO = Alphabetically within each comparison group
SOC = Aphabetically across all groups
SOS = Order by significance level
Lines 3 through 5
Counted as a single entity, the third through fifth lines contain the wording for rows WinCross supplies for statistics rows and summary rows labels. The order of the labels must be as it is in the example, each separated by a comma. Adding #c, #C, #n or #N to the default wording for PERCENTILE is optional. The Setup|Job Settings|Wording for Rows or Setup|Profile Settings|Wording for Rows topics describe these options.
Line 6 (considered line 4)
This line (OW,OR,OV,OB,S2,P1,V2,SA,SP) denotes table presentation (see Setup|Job Settings|Table Presentation or Setup|Profile Settings|Table Presentation). See Options - Job File Codes for a list of all table option codes.
Line 7 (considered line 5)
This is the filter (TOTAL^TN^0) shown in filters (see Setup|Job Settings|Filters or Setup|Profile Settings|Filters ). The filter title is followed by a caret (^) and the filter or logic, followed by another caret and a number indicating the filter type: TOTAL = 0; TOTAL ANSWERING = 1 and SIGMA = 2.
Line 8 (considered line 6)
This line is required and contains the character specified as the Delimiter to use between significance indicators in Setup|Job Settings|Statistics or Setup|Profile Settings|Statistics. If no character is specified, this line will be blank.
Related topics:
Writing Specifications Using a Text Editor