The developer of QualCoder demonstrates features of release 3.5.
This installation demo was made in March 2024, for QualCoder 3.5. For 3.6 and newer version, follow the instruction and scripts on the Wiki Introduction page for installing on MacOS. You will need to install Python 10 or higher but not Python 13.
These videos are tutorials for the 2025 Spring QualCoder series or will be from workshop recordings. Please note that changes may have been made to QualCoder since the videos were made.
When you have different data, you want to be able to link them to the same cases. In QualCoder 3.5 and earlier versions, QualCoder UNIQUE case constraint prevents the import of surveys with case names that already exist in the project. This video demo, using the pre-released QualCoder v. 3.6, suggests one way to address this problem. Since the video was made, the developer has removed the UNIQUE constraint for case name in survey import in the to be released version 3.6. A warning stills appear, but the survey will be imported. Column headers (attributes) and values do not replace existing headers but additional column headers and values will be added.
This video demonstrates how to change a code color as you code. It also goes over changing a category of color with Colour Scheme and viewing color from different color blindness perspectives. QualCoder 3.6 has a color palette icon in Coding menus to allow you to select the default color for new codes.
This video shows how to export a reference from Zotero and import it into QualCoder. Qualcoder does not import the abstract as a separate file so the video shows three way to create a file or memo.
Besides the three ways shown in the video on importing references, you can also import the RIS file in Manage Files and use autocode by start and end marks (the fourth magic wand) to auto code all abstract to a code. Enter AB - in first box (start) and DA - in second box (end).
