Deleting a project removes it from IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Server
Administration and Interviewer Server Administration’s distributed property management system (DPM). You can also delete the project’sfiles and its case data, sample management and quota databases.
Note: The Firefox browser does not support project deletion. Contact your IBM® SPSS® Data Collection administrator tofind out how to do this.
If the project uses sample management, the sample management object is also deleted. If you have projects that share sample management objects, you should ask your Interviewer Server Administration administrator to change this behavior so that deleting a project does not delete the sample management object.
It is recommended that projects to be deleted are in the Inactive state. If you try to delete a project that is not in this state, the deletion procedure will ask whether you want to change the project’s state before deleting it.
When you activate a project, the activation process creates a project folder in the Projects subfolder of the IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Server installation folder, and places a copy of the project’s.mddfile in this folder. This folder exists on every machine running the interviewing server and is updated automatically by the activation process. For example, if you activate the tea project every interviewing server will contain thefile [INSTALL_FOLDER]\IBM\SPSS\DataCollection\6\Interviewer Server\Projects\tea\tea.mdd.
These folders andfiles are not deleted when you delete a project in Interviewer Server Administration, but you may delete them manually afterwards.
If your company uses a hierarchical project list, deleting the last project from a folder automatically deletes the folder too. If you delete the last project and the folder is not deleted, this is because the folder contains other projects that are invisible to you because you do not have permission to use them.
Deleting a project
E Select the project in the Interviewer Server Administration project list. E Click the Delete icon.
E If the project is not Inactive, Interviewer Server Administration displays a reminder that this is recommended and asks whether you want to change the project’s status now. ClickYesto change the status and then delete the project,Noto leave the project’s state as it is and then delete the project, orCancelto cancel the deletion request.
E Next, you are asked whether you want to delete the case data and otherfiles associated with the project. The default is to delete the project from Interviewer Server Administration and DPM but not to delete anyfiles. To delete the case data, sample management, and quotafiles, select Delete will remove existingfiles and the case data database. If you do not want to delete sample management or quotafiles, cancel the check boxes that this option has selected for you. Click Continue. If you have any doubts about deleting the project, clickCancelas this is your last opportunity to cancel the deletion request.
Note: Project names are unique to each customer account. After deleting a project, other users will not be able to create a new project, with the same name as the deleted project, unless they are assigned to the same customer account in which the deleted project was created.
Interviewer Server Administration processes your deletion request and displays a message box when the project has been deleted.
E ClickCloseto close the message box.
Locking and unlocking projects
IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Server Administration automatically locks a project when you use an activity that can change the projectfiles. When a project is locked, everyone except the person who locked the project has restricted access to the project, and most activities will be unavailable to them. This is an important safety mechanism designed to prevent one user accidentally overwriting another user’sfiles.
Interviewer Server Administration does not automatically unlock a project when you close the activity that locked it. If you are working on a project that is shared with other users, you should unlock the project when you havefinished working on it. Unlocking the project makes it fully available to other users. If you have changed any of the projectfiles, you should use the Files activity to check them in to the shared area so that your changes are visible to other users. Normally you should do this before you unlock the project.
Note that using IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Survey Tabulation does not lock a project, because Survey Tabulation never writes data to the main projectfiles. (When you create new variables in Survey Tabulation, they are stored separately from the main project data.) This means that you can use Survey Tabulation on a project that is locked.
Locking a project:
E Select the project in the project list. E Click the Lock Project icon.
Unlocking a project:
E Select the project in the Interviewer Server Administration project list. E Click the Unlock Project icon.