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Version Changes

Version 6.2.5 - June 2010

• Enhancement: Demographics for Poll vote types now allows for demographic breakout to be displayed side-by-side. Originally, the demographic groups were displayed vertically in each bar. This option is available on the Set Demographic Filter dialog box.
• Enhancement: If average is shown on a Poll, when using demographic filters, the average for each filter group is shown in the legend.
• New Feature: You can now override the default font on charts. From the Preferences screen, click the Chart Fonts button and make your desired selections. This will help Innovator to support the larger alphabets required for some languages (Japanese, Chinese, etc.).

Version 6.2.4 - December 2009

• Enhancement: to allow limited support for Asian character sets, a change was made to the charting routine to allow overriding of the default font. Note: a future release of Innovator will include the selection of fonts through the preferences screen.

Version 6.2.3 - February 2009

• Enhancement: average is now displayed on Poll reports below the chart if "Show Average" is checked on the poll setup screen.
• Fix: There is a rare occurrence where a base station needs to be reset. The cause of this is unclear, but is probably the result of one of two things. First, another application trying to communicate with the base, thinking it is a different device, or second, having the base connected during start up of your computer. In this case, it is possible that Windows may try to communicate with the base thinking that it is an external mouse, or keyboard, and in querying the base station, data is sent down that confuses it. It turns out that there was a possibility that in the case of a confused base station, Innovator would not allow you to reset the device since it was unavailable. The CLiKAPAD Maintenance screen has been altered to force a reset of the base station when you click on Set Channel. On this screen, you can reset the base by selecting the Base option and entering the correct channel (usually 6).
• Enhancement: The CLiKAPAD Diagnostic Tool is now included in the installation. This can be used to test your keypads, diagnose problems, and change hardware settings.
• Fix: Applying Demographics to Sheet Laundering Results - when applying demographic filters to a Sheet Laundering vote, the "None of the above" items were confusing the analysis. This caused items to shift on the main list chart and for only the first Sheet to be displayed in the details. This has been corrected.
• Improvement: Previously, when printing reports from Innovator, a copyright (to The Innovator Company) would print at the bottom of each page. This is not necessary and has been removed from the reports.
• Improvement: Registration now helps manage versions so update alerts can be sent.

Version 6.2.2 - May 2008

• Bug Fix: In the Sheet Laundering vote, if the last sheet had more items that the previous sheets, it was not possible to vote on the last item in the list.

Version 6.2.1 - April 2008

• Removed base station error messages from Demo/Training Version when voting hardware is not being used.
• Fix: On the Report Options screen, the effect of setting the "scatters per page" option was reversed (selecting 1 previously printed 4 scatters, selecting 4 printed one scatter per page).
• Fix: In the Scales dialog box, the list of existing scales is now alphabetical (display issue only)
• Fix: when editing a scale's choice list, the order number wasn't being displayed on a recently edited item (display issue only).
• Improvement: When displaying results, Innovator will now remember the legend font size if you change it by right-clicking in the legend area and selecting Font. This is useful if your choices are very long.
• Customer Request/Improvement: When voting a pair compare, the auto-font size method will now force the two items, top and bottom, to have the same font size. Previously, the text size for each choice was maximized to fit the box and the length of the item. This would cause very short items to appear large, while longer, more descriptive items to be displayed with a smaller font. To avoid any subliminal effect of a larger font indicating value or strength, the fonts will be equalized. Now, on any pair page, the largest possible font for both top and bottom will be used, balancing readability with voting effect. This option can be controlled in the preferences screen and by default will force the fonts to be the same. If you want Innovator to calculate the fonts for top and bottom independently (as in previous versions), you can uncheck the box for this feature.

Version 6.2 - December 2007

• New Vote Type - Sheet Laundering. This vote type automates the normally facilitated activity of laundering brainstormed items on flip charts. Works well when trying to do this activity in large audiences where working with flipcharts is not effective.
• New Feature - Scoring is now available for Polls. You can now do tests with Innovator and get results by keypad and by group. When adding choices to a Poll, you can assign a score to one or more choices for that vote. Scores can be viewed in a new report and can be shown by keypad, or grouped by a selected demographic (non-scored) poll. This way "teams" can be created for the scoring activity, or demographics used to understand the results.
• New Reports:
  1. Detailed Session list of Issues and choices
  2. Answer key (for scored Polls)
  3. Scored Results Report - by keypad or group
• Fix: Item numbers now display in markers when printing an Opportunity Map
• Fleetwood keypads no longer supported. Based on customer usage, only CLiKAPAD keypads will be supported in this version of Innovator.
• Fix: When pasting into lists from Word, bullets and numbered lists are now handled better (before would add the extra characters that represent the bullet or number before the item which caused display/entry problems).
• Improvement: When exporting results from the main Session screen, keypads that have not cast any votes are now ignored.

Version 6.1.6 - July 10, 2007

• Improved: Innovator now communicates directly with CLiKAPAD base stations. This means that the extra step of setting up a COM Port is no longer required. This simplifies installation and improves general operation with these keypads.
• New Feature: Auto-starting votes now works with CLiKAPAD keypads. From the main session screen, click the "Auto Start Vote" box. When you begin a vote, you won't need to press the "Start" button at the top left of the screen. In certain situations this is beneficial, but if you are intending to discuss the item while it is onscreen, then manually beginning the vote is still advised.
• New Feature: Axis charts for Opportunity Maps. From the View dropdown at the top of a chart, you can now display charts for the vertical and horizontal axis.
• Fix: When displaying a chart, if your legend items were longer than 250 characters, an error would occur and the chart would fail. Long items are allowed during voting, but the display will be slightly truncated when the chart appears. This affects all vote types.

Version 6.1.5 - November 27, 2006

• Fix: cleaned up the stop vote procedure. While voting, the questions after pressing the stop button have been refined.
• Serial Number / Product Registration process - From the About screen you can register your Innovator license.
• Export / Import Session - now supports transferring participant data. The new Export/Import will preserve the session across computers. What does this mean? When you export a session from one computer, import on another, it will be identical. If you import the same session again, it will overwrite the existing information. You can Export/Import the entire session from the Open Session screen. Select a session and press the Export button, or press the Import button and locate the session information file to load.
• When viewing a bar chart onscreen, the original item numbers are now preserved when sorting high/low and low/high.

Version 6.1.3 - March 1, 2006

• New Feature: Combine Sessions - Access this feature from the initial Open Session dialog box. You can select two or more previously voted sessions to combine into a newly created "roll-up" type session. This is useful for doing multi-session surveys and generating combined reporting and analysis after the events.
• New Feature: Revote Opportunity Map Horizontal Axis - When revoting an opportunity map, you now can elect to only revote the horizontal axis. This will copy the vertical vote and allow you to "experiment" on your list of items.
• New Feature: From the Session screen, you can now combine similar Polls into a single Rate Items list. Polls must have the same number of choices to be combined. The text for each Poll becomes an item in the list. This is useful for reporting and analysis of similar polls.
• Help file updated for all new features. See relevant articles for more information (screen help and guidebook).
• FIX: When viewing Opportunity Map scatters, if you mouse over the scatter dot, it was displaying an item label from the main map chart. This is now corrected and only the dot's coordinates are displayed.

Version 6.1.2 - February 15, 2006

• Fix: CLIKAPAD keyapds over 100 were being ignored. Innovator now supports CLIKAPAD numbering from 1 to 500.

Version 6.1.1 - Released January 22, 2006

• IMPORTANT: Version 6.1 includes changes to the database structure and is a major update. If you are using version 6.0 of Innovator, this will install into a new folder and not overwrite your existing information.
• New vote type - Decision Matrix. A Decision Matrix is a vote in which a list of alternatives is evaluated against a set of criteria.
• MAJOR FEATURE: Innovator now supports new credit card sized keypads. Call or email for more information.
• Update: All vote processing routines have been updated.
• Enhancement: Voting progress is now embedded into the voting screen. This eliminates the floating vote progress window that would appear in the bottom right of the voting screen. Now progress appears at the bottom of the window.
• Enhancement: Scanning for keypads is now built into the Participant setup screen (no longer do you need to use the Quick Poll feature to scan for keypads).
• New Feature: Weighting added to participant/keypad. Normally, each keypad receives the same weighting when scoring a vote. In many cases, such as delegate voting where the keypad represents a constituency of varying size, it is important to weight the participant votes differently. You can add weights on the Participant Edit screen. Click on the Participants button from the Session screen. Select a keypad number and press Edit. A weight value of 2 will be the same as if that participant voted on two keypads with the same responses.
• New Feature: From the main session screen, you can combine previously voted Decision Matrices. This allows you to split large matrices for efficient vote processing in your sessions. See the help article for Decision Matrix for more information.
• New Feature: Paste Option available on all vote edit screens. Use this feature to copy and paste items from your Word or other text documents into Innovator. All issue (name) fields support pasting using the standard windows paste key (control-V) after copying text from another source. Now, you can press the Paste button to bring a list in from Word. Each line in the list will become a choice in Polls, or items in Ratings, Pairs and Opportunity Maps. You can also paste your alternatives into the Decision Matrix.
• New Feature: Keypad tester is available on the toolbar. Allows you to test and manage your keypads without setting up a session in Innovator.
• Charting features:
  • For chart readability, added numbers to the X axis instead of text. Text labels often did not fit. Numbers now correspond to the choices in the legend.
  • For decision matrix votes, you can adjust the criteria weighting directly from the chart screen to do "what if" analysis.

Version 6.0.6 - Released January 3, 2005

• Enhancement: When voting rate items, pair compare, and opportunity maps, the Issue, and in the case of opportunity maps the axis label, are displayed in the title bar for reference.
• Enhancement: Allow selection of multiple issues when voting. Innovator will automatically advance through all selected issues. Charts can be displayed between each or tuned off with the "Show chart after vote" feature on the Session screen.
• Enhancement: Auto-start feature is now available when voting. From the Session screen, turn on the "Auto Start Vote" feature. When enabled, Innovator will immediately begin polling the issue when the Vote button is pressed (or the issue is doubleclicked). If this is not enabled, then you must press the Start button from the voting screen to begin. This is desirable when sequencing multiple votes, such as in a survey, to limit interaction with the computer. It is still recommended to enhance your process that you do not use this feature for most issues. You should take the time while the issue and choices are displayed to reinforce, and ensure comprehension, of the items being voted.
• Fix: When selecting individual participants to print, Innovator would revert back to the entire group after printing the report. Innovator now maintains the selected participant list until the feature is turned off.
• Fix: Printing while in print preview now works.
• Enhancement: Cover page is now optional on the Print Options dialog box.
• Enhancement: Extended individual reporting features. On print options dialog box, you now have the option to print individual reports. Select one or more issues to print from the Session screen. Press Print, then on the Print Options dialog box, check the Individual Reports option. For each participant, all selected reports will be printed. If you elect to include the cover page, then this will separate the pages. Participant names appear at the top of each page when this feature is used. You can limit the participants to be printed by checking the "Display / print only selected participants" option on the Session screen.
• When using the "Display / print only selected participants" feature, information messages now only appear the first time.
• When you stop vote from the progress box at the bottom right of the screen, you can now choose to discard the votes collected. This allows you to restart the vote fresh in the event your audience requires clarification. See the article Continue Voting Question in the Help file for more information.
• Enhancement: Up and down arrow buttons give the ability to move to next / previous issue from the chart screen
• Help system updated. Data Triage article added.

Version 6.0.5 - Released 21 July 2004

• Fix: When adding a new Poll, if you clicked on the Add button to set the choices, nothing would appear (If you used the keyboard combination Alt-A to get to the Add Choice box, it worked fine)

Version 6.0.4 - Released 12 July 2004

• Fix: About box now reflects correct version number
• New Feature: Spellchecker added to vote setup screens
• Enhancement: Copy From feature now lets you copy multiple votes at once
• New Feature: Auto sizing of fonts on vote screen now available - when Auto font is set, Innovator will calculate the largest possible font to display on the screen in which all text can be shown.
• Enhancement: On participant screen, inactive participants are marked with a double asterisk (**) after the keypad number
• Enhancement: Pairs are now shuffled before voting in Pair Comparisons and Opportunity Maps. This is the default setting. An option on the Preferences screen allows you to turn off this feature.
• Fix: On Opportunity map charts, large numbers of items now display in a single light color for better readability
• Fix: Opportunity Map legends with large number of items would lose item number. Also, charts with 10 or less items now include the item number in the legend along with the color marker
• Help file updated

Version 6.0.3 - Released 20 May 2004

• When applying a demographic filter to a chart, the title now shows the demographic issue selected
• New feature: Ability to convert votes from one type to another from the Session screen
• New feature: Export/Import for all session data to move sessions between Innovator computers
• New Feature: Added Up and Down arrows for reordering issues on the main Session screen
• Fixed bug when applying demographics to a poll being displayed by percent
• When doing Yes/No votes, the chart legend didn't show the labels
• Copy From was duplicating issue in originating session, not in current one

Upcoming Feature Enhancements

• Add demographic breakout at the detail level on Rate Items charts
• New Feature: Show total scores on Rate Items votes - sum up all item scores (checkbox option somewhere to manage
• New Feature: Weighted voting I - apply weights to items, based on entered values or selection of a list type vote (rate items or paired comparison) for weight scores.
• New Feature: Add user defined field to session setup for sorting purposes
• Enhancement: Add numbers to colors in demographic charts
• On Demographic charts, the horizontal axis doesn't display the item names like a standard chart does
• Option to use Top Row/Bottom Row versus 1/2 when voting pairs
• Charting: add indication of alignment on markers in Opportunity Maps (e.g., circle around items with high degree of alignment)

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