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Adobe Tracker - Data Collection, Organization, Formatting

Jun
Registered: Mar 22 2011
Posts: 10
Answered

Hello,
 
I am learning to use Adobe Acrobat X Pro, hoping that Adobe Tracker is a good thing for my job tasks. I am confused about display options in Tracker since I can't seem to find any way to control how survey results are shown.
 
When, for example, I distribute a simple form with a question, "Did you eat lunch today?" with a check box, then my recipients submit their answers back to me (in this case with the check box 'checked' or 'unchecked') All I can see in the View Responses section of Adobe Tracker is that there is a column, which is labeled "checkbox1" and 0's and 1's.
 
I understand computing well enough to know that the answer "1" means that the recipient ate his lunch and "0" means that he didn't, but how can I present such array of numbers to someone, who has no computer programming experience?
Is there a way to make my survey results more descriptive and reader friendly? I would at least like for it to show what the question is asking, and either "yes" or "no" instead of a list of binary numbers.
 
There must be something I can do, perhaps, in the process of authoring the form in form generators such as Livecyle Designer and the like. I hope there is a solution to this that is simple enough.
 
A workaround is for me to go though a lengthy post editing process in a spreadsheet editor like MS Excel after the results have been exported. I would very much like to avoid this if I can.
 
If any subscriber of this forum knows of a proper technique, I would love to hear about it. Thank you in advance for your expert opinions.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows
Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Accepted Answer
Hi,

Give to the Yes checkbox the "yes" export value, and give the "no" export value to the other checkbox.
These values will appear in the Tracker.

Jun
Registered: Mar 22 2011
Posts: 10
Thank you.

Is it also possible to manipulate the appearance of each column header? The only way I can change this is by renaming the fields and checkboxes, which does not allow the use of spaces in between words.


Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Sure : in the "Responses" portfolio double-clic on any row header to change it.

;-)