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29 IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer Server Administration User’s Guide When there is a conflict between the versions, the order of precedence is taken from the order in which versions are specified in the expression, with the rightmost versions taking precedence over the leftmost. For example, if a category label differs in the versions you select, the text in the version with the higher precedence will be used. However the order of questions and categories is always taken from the most recent version and there is special handling of changes to loop definition ranges and the minimum and maximum values of variables. For more information, see the topic Version Expressions on p. 29. Latest. Select this option if you want to use the most recent version. All. Select this option if you want to use a combination (superset) of all of the available versions. (This is sometimes called a superversion). Versions. A list of all of the versions that are available. For each version, the following information is shown: Name. The version name. Version names are made up of a combination of the major version and minor version numbers in the form Major#:Minor#, where Major# is the number of the major version and Minor# is the number of the minor version. Changes in the major version number indicate that the structure of the case data has changed (for example, variables or categories have been added or deleted) whereas changes in the minor version number indicate that the changes affect the metadata only (for example, a question text has been changed). Version names are created automatically when a version is locked. A version that has not been locked is always called LATEST. Created by. The ID of the user who created the version. Created Date. This shows the date and time at which the version was locked. Description. When present, this is a text that gives information about the version. Languages. Select the language you want to use. You can change the language only if there is more than one language defined. Contexts. Select the user context you want to use. The user context controls which texts are displayed. For example, select Question to display question texts, or Analysis to display shorter texts suitable for displaying when analyzing the data. LabelTypes. Select the label type you want to use. You should generally select the Label option. Version Expressions When you open a metadata (.mdd) file, you can specify the version or versions you want to use. This topic describes the syntax that you use to specify the version or versions. You can specify a single version using its name. Version names are made up of a combination of the major version and minor version numbers in the form Major#:Minor#, where Major# is the number of the major version and Minor# is the number of the minor version. Changes in the major version number indicate that the structure of the case data has changed (for example, variables or categories have been added or deleted) whereas changes in the minor version number indicate that the changes affect the metadata only (for example, a question text has been changed). Version
