Versions

While working on SimpleX, your work is not saved automatically. If you edit an answer, you lose track of the previous answer. If you delete all the topics available at on point in time, or launch a distribution of answers across existing topics, there is no possibility to undo this action in one click or any Ctrl+Z combination.

The only exception is the split feature. Answers resulting from a split are available for unsplit, given the option to switch back to the original unsplit version.

On the other hand, some elements set during import process are not editable. Keywords attached to answers are not editable. You have the ability to hide those you would not feel relevant or useful but they stay attached in our database to one given text answer.  Value from the filters, inherited from the original spreadsheet imported, can not be edited within SimpleX. Wrong values should be corrected before importing into SimpleX.

Any analyst has been educated to sav regularly his/her work. Just in case...

With SimpleX you don't hav to be afraid of electric shutdown or coffee spill over. The latest version work is automaticall saved  and will be accessible once back in line. But there are some other good reasons to save your work.

At some point on a given survey, you might on the verge of launching "risky" actions. Say you have started to classify answers into topics of your own, you are half way through and you are not convinced it is the right path to go. Now you remember you could have SimpleX suggest topics for you and it might be a better way. But it is not guaranteed, and by doing so, you would lose your half satisfactory work. 

Or you may have gone through a full classification exercise with one given angle, and would like to do another one with a different angle, a different way of looking at your. 

Creating a Version is the way to go. 

A Version is the capture of your work at one moment in time in a comprehensive way. It captures of course the text answers, the value of filters attached, the status of keywords visibility as well as the topics and subtopics created, their content.

To create a Version, click on the bottom right Versions menu.

Enter a name describing the status of where you are in the working process (v1 might not be the most insightful name 😉 )

Click on Save and your work is saved.

You can now launch this AI-powered 'Topic suggestion' feature. If it proves not successful, it will be easy to come back to where you were. In order to switch back, go the Version, select the version you want to come back to and click on the left icon to switch back.