mQuest® 18s is here.
Digital surveys
are now even easier.

The new mQuest® Version 18s is in the starting blocks: The highlight is the new developed SurveyManager, the web-based control centre for surveys with mQuest®

 

Numerous new functions and enhancements, the brand new SurveyManager, a modernisation of the security architecture and policies, as well as a new programming interface (API) make mQuest® fit for the future. You can find all release notes with all the new features in detail below (Listing includes all features since version 11.3)

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SurveyManager.

The new command centre for mQuest.®

The brand new Survey Manager builds the new centre portal for planning and controlling all mQuest® projects and replaces the QuestAdmin. 

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Faster, Safer, more stable

Numerous improvements make mQuest® faster, safer and sturdier than ever before. These include the modernisation of the security architecture and policies, the optimisation of the system architecture for better performance and scalability, as well as the improvement of the integration capability thanks to revised mQuest® APIs.

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Features, Features, Features …

…and more features.

Of course mQuest® 18s brings a lot of new features. Use the “Smart Search”-function for the autocomplete lists, the lead module “OCR- Business Card Scanner” with automated text recognition, advanced heatmap features - for example, a “Likes & Dislikes Map”, the sending of mails with PDF reports, as well as new design options of the mQuest® app.

All new features in detail.

For those of you, who want to know exactly. Here is a detailed listing of all improvements in mQuest® 18s. 

 

SurveyManager

The SurveyManager is the new, central portal for planning and controlling mQuest® projects. The SurveyManager runs in all major browsers and provides a large number of useful features:

  • Project management
    • Create, edit, import and delete projects
    • Edit project settings
    • Update questionnaires
  • Show the most important project key figures. (form version, number of captured data sets, etc.)
  • Multiple export options: SPSS (fully labeled), MS Excel, Comma separated value files (CSV), count data, Excel templates, project archives.
  • Data view
    • Configurable display of all relevant variables
    • Search function for data sets by ID
    • Editing function
    • Deleting data sets, restriction to periods
    • Ignore data sets
    • Direct display of photos, videos and audio files
    • Display of GPS coordinates
  • Quality assurance tools
    • Generate test data
    • Create routing statistics
  • Manage tasks
    • Import and export Excel tasks
    • Sortable overview of all tasks (managed via API and/or Excel)
    • Detail view of individual tasks
  • Quota management
    • View and control project-specific quotas
  • Comfortable user management
    • Create users with different authorizations (Administrator,  Surveyor, QuestReport-user) and optionally enrich with additional information
    • Delete users
    • Change passwords
  • License management and overview

Feature Details

  • Adaptation to Apple iOS 11 and Android 8 (Oreo)
  • Support for new mobile devices like iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPad Pro
  • Question groups for mQuest® app 
    • Now also available for Android devices
    • Android/iOS: Dynamic filter evaluation in question groups
  • Advanced “Smart Search” function on autocomplete lists
    • Full-text search with multiple search terms
    • Optimized search for umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and special characters
    • Improved search speed even for large lists
  • New module: Business Card Scanner (OCR)
    • Online OCR (optical character recognition/automatic text recognition) of business cards and pre-assignment of fields with the results
    • Storing the photos of business card scans
  • New heatmap features in QuestReport
    • Calibration of the maximum value
    • Single-coloured red or green heatmaps
    • Optional reversal of the gradient
  • New questionnaire functions
    • Colour selection for question type “photo marking”
    • Android/iOS: default value for closed questions
    • iOS: Horizontal presentation of text, single selection and multiple answers
    • iOS: When selecting an entry from an autocomplete list, the entry will only be shown once
    • Improve usability when taking photos (QuickClick)
    • Ability of Zooming images with question type “Message”
    • Adjustable number of lines for text input
    • Non-editable text fields
  • New individual design possibilities
    • New, optional home screen with questionnaires/tasks categorized by icons
    • Customizable color in the title bar
    • Customizable color per heading in navigable chapters
    • Customizable icons per navigable chapter
  • QuestEditor: Undo Function
  • Send mails with PDF or RTF attachments that are generated from mQuest® data
  • mQuest® for iOS: Automatic background synchronization (for active apps)
  • Optimizations and bug fixes
    • Order management extended by training orders
    • From Android 6: Query access permissions only when needed
    • Paused records can be deleted directly when uploading
    • For orders with maximal of one order, paused records continue on demand

mQuest® API

New, revised mQuest® API (condition: mQuest® CloudConnect license)

  • Projects API: Manage projects
    • Manage Questionnaires (MQF)
    • Updating of ACL, MACL and attachments
    • Load questions from a questionnaire (including filters)
    • Raw data export to SPSS, XLS, CSV
    • Access to media files
    • Quota settings
    • Result management
  • Tasks API: Revised and advanced task management
    • Manage tasks
    • Manage task-specific lists (ACLs or MACLs)
    • Task-specific attachments – e.g. Manage video/images etc.
  • Users API: Manage users
  • SurveyExport API: Result export after synchronization
    • Export of new records in XML, JSON, or key-value format
    • Export of media files
    • Transmission of PDF files based on a data set
  • Authentication and authorisation via API-key
  • Online documentation at  https://api.mQuest.de