Export multimedia files from open... (AskiaTools)

Use this feature to export any multimedia files stored in the open-ended data of your questionnaire. The multimedia content will be exported as individual multimedia files to a specific directory.

To use this function, open the *.QES file or SQL Server database you want to export from and then, in the tools menu, select export multimedia files from open.... The available options are:

Option Description

Directory

Type the path to the directory in which you want to save the multimedia files. Alternatively, click ... and select the directory in the file dialog.

File format

Specifies the format of the filenames that will be used for the multimedia files.

For example:

??shortcut????id??.??extension??

will result in filenames that begin with the question shortcut, then have the respondent ID and finally a dot followed by the filename extension, according to the file type. For example: Q3_PICTURE0098.png

Questions

Determines which question/s the multimedia files will be exported from. Click ..., and move your chosen questions into the right-hand list (to do this, select them and click the right-facing arrow). Note that you can only move open text questions into the right-hand list.

Export completes only

Select this if you don’t want to export files from incomplete interviews.

Interview started after

If you select this option, and a date in the list-box, then multimedia content will be exported only from interviews that began after that date.

Additional filter

Here, you can specify the interviews from which multimedia content will be exported, according to a script (click ... next to additional filter and enter the script).

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