When browsing responses in grid view, each option in a multi-select receives its own column with either a ‘1′ or a ‘0′ to indicate whether the option was selected. Previously, the naming convention used was QUESTION-NAME_OPTION-LABEL.  Although this naming convention was certainly very descriptive, you can end up with really long column headings.  Whilst there is no limitation on column heading length in Mobile Researcher, when importing datasets into other applications, such as Microsoft Access, variable (column heading) names of more than 64 characters may be truncated leading to duplicate variable names.

With this new feature, you may optionally elect to use a short naming convention whereby each option in a multi-select question response is identified by QUESTION-NAME_OPTION-VALUE instead of QUESTION-NAME_OPTION-LABEL.  This results in significantly shorter, but still unique column headings.

To use this feature, simply tick the box next to “Short Naming Option” when generating a result set from the Analytics tab.