• <Helps for GetStart>
  • CSPro User's Guide
    • The CSPro System
      • What is CSPro?
      • CSPro Capabilities
      • Release History
      • What's New in CSPro?
        • What's New in CSPro?
        • What's New in CSPro 7.0?
        • What's New in CSPro 7.1?
        • What's New in CSPro 7.2?
        • What's New in CSPro 7.3?
        • What's New in CSPro 7.4?
        • What's New in CSPro 7.5?
        • What's New in CSPro 7.6?
      • CSPro Applications
      • CSPro General Concepts
      • CSPro General Functionality
      • How To ...
    • Data Dictionary Module
    • The CSPro Language
    • Data Entry Module
    • Batch Editing Applications
    • Tabulation Applications
    • CSPro Statements and Functions
    • Templated Reporting System
    • Appendix
  • <Helps for CSEntry>
  • <Helps for CSBatch>
  • <Helps for CSTab>
  • <Helps for DataViewer>
  • <Helps for TextView>
  • <Helps for TblView>
  • <Helps for TRSWin>
  • <Helps for CSDeploy>
  • <Helps for CSPack>
  • <Helps for CSFreq>
  • <Helps for CSSort>
  • <Helps for CSExport>
  • <Helps for CSReFmt>
  • <Helps for CSDiff>
  • <Helps for CSConcat>
  • <Helps for TRSSetup>
  • <Helps for ParadataViewer>
  • <Helps for ParadataConcat>
  • <Helps for CSIndex>
  • <Helps for Excel2CSPro>
  • <Helps for CSWeb>

What's New in CSPro 7.5?

This is a detailed list of changes in CSPro 7.5. For a more general overview, see the readme.txt file located in the CSPro installation folder.
General
  • On Android devices it is possible to record and play audio in two modes: interactive mode, with the enumerator able to control the recording; and background mode, with the recording controlled by logic functions using the new audio object.
  • Listing files can now be written as comma-separated values (CSV) or CSPro data files. Traditional listing files in text format are still supported.
Android
  • The csentry directory on Android has moved. For new installations the csentry directory will be located at:
    <external storage>/Android/data/gov.census.cspro.csentry/files/csentry

    If you are upgrading from an earlier version of CSEntry, the csentry directory will remain at:
    <external storage>/csentry

    This change is required to support the more stringent security requirements introduced in the latest versions of Android.
Logic
  • A new object, audio, that allows for recording or playing audio. It has the functions: clear, concat, length, load, play, record, recordInteractive, save, and stop.
  • A new object, hashmap, that facilitates storage of numbers or strings in an associative array. It has the functions: clear, contains, getKeys, length, and remove.
  • A new function, syncparadata, similar in behavior to syncdata, allows for the syncing of paradata between devices over Bluetooth, or between a device and a CSWeb, Dropbox, or FTP server.
  • A new function, replace, returns a string with one of more instances of a substring replaced with new text.
  • A new function, encode, escapes special characters to facilitate writing to HTML or CSV files, or encodes characters when writing out URIs or URI components.
  • A new namespace, path, has functions for interacting with file paths: path.concat, path.getDirectoryName, path.getExtension, path.getFileName, and path.getFileNameWithoutExtension.
  • User-defined functions now support optional parameters as well as passing numeric and string values by reference.
  • Conditional compilation of logic is now possible due to the addition of a logic preprocessor.
  • New functions for list objects: list.removeDuplicates removes duplicate values; list.removeIn removes values specified in an in list; and list.sort sorts a list.
  • The list.show and valueset.show functions work with string lists and string value sets.
  • The valueset.randomize function is a new way to randomize value sets (which previously could be done using randomizevs). These value set randomizations now obey any seed value provided using the seed function.
  • The valueset.sort function sorts the order of entries in the value set by either label or code.
  • The randomin function now accepts non-integer values in the input in list.
  • New numeric and string variables can be declared inline in the recode statement's destination variables section.
  • A new callback function, OnSystemMessage, provides a way to override the displaying of system error messages.
  • It is possible to check a value against all special values using the code special in an in list (which are also used by recode and when statements).
  • Lists can also be used as inputs of an in list.
  • The loadsetting and savesetting functions accepts numeric values as part of the attribute-value pair.
  • The hash function accepts numeric values as inputs.
Tools
  • The Deploy Application tool has options to refresh all files or all data entry applications within a folder.
CSWeb
  • CSWeb can convert case data to MySQL/MariaDB relational tables using a command line process, allowing for more dynamic reporting.
See also: What's New in CSPro?