Supervisor/Monitor Related Options

Frequently Used Options

TRIPLE_QUOTAS

TRIPLE_QUOTAS=option

Shortform: TQ

Creates three quotas for each quota name referenced in the specifications: a standard quota (name), a target quota (name.T), and a resettable quota (name.R). Also allows the use of the TARGET compiler command to set the initial value for the target quota. You can use “TRIPLE_QUOTAS=MODIFY_TARGETS_ONLY” and then supervisors can only modify the target quotas on QSS screens; they won’t have access to modify the other quotas.

Other Options

ALLOW_VIEW

Allows View mode without requiring knowledge of the study password, so users can view and alter data without allowing users to change phone parameters or quotas.

COUNT_AS_COMPLETE

COUNT_AS_COMPLETE=# #

This allows you to specify up to 5 statuses to be counted as completes in the SUPERVISOR DAI menus. Use “COUNT_AS_COMPLETE=W” to count every case written with a case id as a complete.  Each status should be separated by a space.

A typical use would be to specify “COUNT_AS_COMPLETE=1” to count status “1” as a complete.

NOTE: Theserver and phone file counters count completes as phone status “1” no matter what, but the log reports can be adjusted to count completes however you’d like.

MASTER_QUOTA

MASTER_QUOTA=option

Specifies the name of the study that holds the master quotas for this study. (See MASTER QUOTA FILE TO HELP CONTROL MULTIPLE STUDIES for more information) on using a master quota file.

MODIFY_CASE_ID

MODIFY_CASE_ID=option

Shortform: MODID

Specifies the supervisor’s access to modifying the “next” case ID using the MODID command.  If Y(es), Supervisor can make changes. If N(o), Supervisor cannot, but the CLEANIT utility still can.  If P(ass) and the PASSWORD header option is specified, the supervisor will be prompted for the password when trying to use the MODID command.  The default is Yes.

MODIFY_FONE_FILE

MODIFY_FONE_FILE=option

Shortform: MODFON

Specifies the supervisor’s access to modifying the phone parameters using the MPF command. If Y(es), Supervisor can make changes. If N(o), Supervisor cannot, but the FONEUTIL utility still can. If P(ass) and the PASSWORD header option is specified, the supervisor will be prompted for the password when trying to use the MPF command.  The default is Yes.

MODIFY_QUOTA_FILE

MODIFY_QUOTA_FILE=option

Shortform: MODQUO

Specifies the supervisor’s access to modifying the quotas using the QSS or QNS Mod commands. If Y(es), Supervisor can make changes. If N(o), Supervisor cannot, but the QUOTAMOD utility still can. If P(ass) and the PASSWORD header option is specified, the supervisor will be prompted for the password when trying to use the MOD option on the QSS and QNS commands.  The default is Yes.

MONITOR

Controls monitoring from SURVMON. The default is you can monitor. If you specify -MONITOR and PASSWORD=, it will prompt for the password when they try to monitor. If you say -MONITOR and do not specify a password, you will not be able to monitor this study. This has no effect on the Supervisor’s MON command.

PASSWORD

PASSWORD=”<password>”

Shortform: PASS

Allows you to assign a password to access View mode in SURVENT, the MPF, QSS MOD, and MODID commands in SURVSUPR, and monitoring in SURVMON. There is NO password required by default. The password can be from 1 to 8 alphanumeric characters and must be enclosed in quotes. See the SUPER_PASSWORDS parmfile command and the note at the end of this section for more information on passwords.

To see options that affect ALL studies, see the Surox parmfile options.