Defining Study Family Attributes
Please note that the following functionality is optional and may not be available with your platform version.
After a study family is created, additional dataset attributes can be defined.
As an optional step, dataset attributes can be created within study families to enable filtering when navigating and selecting datasets.
This will also activate the Dynamic option within the Selection Mode menu.
Using attributes is helpful when multiple datasets are included under a study family.
Options to edit the study family and dataset names are also available.
Expand the menu to the right of the study family field and select Edit Study Family.
The Edit Study Family window will open.
The Edit Study Family window supports:
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Renaming the study family
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Deleting a dataset (has to be more than one within the study family, otherwise this option is not available)
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Deleting the study family (all datasets within the study family will be deleted, too)
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Adding dataset attributes
Click the Add Dataset Attribute option at the bottom-right corner above the OK button to bring up the Add Dataset Attribute window.
Adding and defining new attribute filters is done in this window.
Attributes will be available for use on the on the Get Data Page in Analyze.
In this example, a new attribute named, 'Year' is being added.
After an attribute is created, the dataset definitions will need to be populated.
Each attribute for every dataset will need to be defined.
After clicking the OK button, the attributes appear as separate filter selectors on the Get Data page and the dataset definitions appear as options in a drop-down menu.
Selecting options in the attribute menu will filter the datasets.
(In this example, 2019 is checked, so the 2018 dataset has been removed from the available sources list.)
Dynamic Selection Mode
After attributes are defined, the Selection Mode menu will become active and the Dynamic option will be available.
New Questions Created In Datasets
Any attributes that are defined in the study family will be included as additional questions in the datasets.
In the previous examples, Year and Wave were defined as attributes when editing the study family.
Those attributes will appear in the datasets as questions.
