The latest release of QualCoder has been published: https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/releases/tag/2.4
It contains a major change from many opened dialog windows. to a tabbed interface with four tabs for actions performed log, coding, manage and reports.
Details of other updates are:
- Use of base64 for icons.
- Export option for case and file attributes.
- Reports – Case matrix – various options for the matrix columns: codes, categories, top categories.
- Extra explanation for text search in code text regards Regex.
- Additional shortcut keys when coding:
- Shortcut R to select Recent codes. (requires text selection)
- Shortcut Q to Quick code with the most recent code. (requires text selection)
- Shortcut M to memo a code. (click on the coded segment first)
- Shortcut O to cycle through overlapping codes in situ. (click on the coded segment first)
- Code in context of original file – now available in code text, code image, code av, graph and code reports results. In the coding menus in code text ,code image, code AV, click on ‘Show coded files’ code tree menu option then in the displayed codes window, click on a colored heading to show the code in its original context.
- In code text: the font size for the document text can be changed. (Future: this may be moved to an option for all document text in the Settings menu).
- In Manage Attributes. Right click on ‘numeric’ for an attribute and there is a menu option to change to ‘character’.
I skipped the 2.3 release as I could not change two minor issues after the code was released on Github.
QualCoder 
Looks great and works flawlessly. Thanks and congratulation!
Thank you!
I am not able to run the software
Thanks for the software, it has been very helpful for my work. My dear friend, I have a question. Why in this new version I can’t launch the program from \ QualCoder-2.4 \ qualcoder.py, as I did with version 2.2? Although I can do it from \ QualCoder-2.4 \ qualcoder \ qualcoder.py, I still don’t understand the reason for this difference.
The file structure is the same. So in 2.2 I would run using python Qualcoder-2.2/qualcoder/qualcoder.py
You may have moved the files from the qualcoder folder up one level, or created a shortcut.
Greetings my dear friend. Launching the program from the cmd of windows, I found the following error: import error: cannot import name DialogManageAttributes from attributes (C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages\attributes\__init__.py) Could you help me to solve or understand the reason for this error. Thank you?.
You may have accidentally deleted or moved or renamed files inside the folders. I have tested here and it works fine. Download the zip folder again.
Thanks for your answer. QualCoder is really very good and very useful. I used it to do an analysis of more than 150 interviews, and I preferred to work with QualCoder rather than other software that I already had installed on my computer.
Regarding the question I asked earlier, the software runs fine from the path “C: \ Program Files (x86) \ QualCoder-2.4 \ qualcoder”. But if I move the qualcoder.py file one level up, it throws the message I placed before. However, in version 2.2, it ran from either of these two locations. That was the cause of my question.
Thanks again, and let me have a message for all readers: the software is 100% recommended. It’s very light. The other CAQDAS software that I have installed on my computer, after loading many documents and entering many codes, tends to become slow, and affects the performance of the computer. QualCoder didn’t have that problem in my case. For my work I uploaded more than 150 interviews, and formulated more than 25 codes, with 5 categories of codes. In all respects QualCoder was an excellent tool.
Thanks and regards.
Thank you for your positive support. 🙂
If or when you publish your work, please let me know.
Perhaps leave a review of QualCoder on:
https://www.saashub.com/qualcoder-alternatives
or
https://alternativeto.net/software/qualcoder
with regards Colin
Finally, I am running and testing the software for the first time thanks to this note from Alfredo comment QualCoder-2.4 \ qualcoder \ qualcoder.py and this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2vks2n9d1g
Thank you for your effort and great job ccbogel!!!
Hola. Estoy usando la versión actual (2.4). Lo he instalado sin problemas en Debian 10 como en Ubuntu. (Kubuntu 20.04.2). No he tenido ningún problema para instalar. En realidad se solicitaban librerías pdf que no recuerdo pero con instalarlas funciona todo OK
He podido importar proyecto de RQDA sin inconvenientes.
Quería agradecer por el trabajo y por el resultado. Genial este programa. ¡Felicitaciones!
Un comentario: cuando se transcribe y se insertan oradores crean los atajos sin problema: ctrl + 1….8, pero al cerrar el proyecto y al reiniciarlo, cambia el orden.
Sugerencia: sería muy cómodo para la transcripción que Vlc reinicie desde donde se abandonó la reproducción
Nuevamente, ¡Muchas gracias!
Thanks you!
A comment: when it is transcribed and speakers are inserted they create the shortcuts without problem: ctrl + 1 …. 8, but when closing the project and restarting it, it changes the order. Yes – it sdoes not store the speaker names or their order.
Hint: it would be very convenient for the transcript if Vlc would restart from where the playback was abandoned. Ok will consider adding something for this.
First of all, thanks for the software! It works really well.
Could I ask you a question? I’ve been using it for some weeks now, but lately every time I try to code a new text chunk, it keeps showing the following message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/qualcoder/code_text.py”, line 1924, in combo_code_selected
cursor.setPosition(int(item[‘pos0’]), QtGui.QTextCursor.MoveAnchor)
UnboundLocalError: local variable ‘item’ referenced before assignment
What might I have been doing wrong?
Thanks you Ana, I am glad you like the software. May I ask what operating system do you use and was the instillation easy for you?
I think I have fixed this error, after the 2.4 release was released.
It is not in a 2.5 release yet. You can download the latest code from here: https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder using the Green Code button at the top right of the page. Unzip it and the program files are stored in the inside qualcoder folder.
Thanks! It seems to be working fine now.
I use Linux Mint 19.3.
I am running the software from terminal, I did not install it. But when I was using the original 2.4 release I had installed the debian package.
Hi! Everything is working fine here. Is there any way to change the file’s name after importing it into the project folder? I regret not correcting some of them and now I have a little mess. I tried to change the name directly on the project folder, but nothing changed.
Thanks!
Hi. I did not enact this because I had troubles in the past.
Save a backup of the project first.
These instructions only works for files stored in the project folder , not for linked files.
Go to Menu > Reports > SQL statements
In the top section write similar to this:
update source set name=”newname.txt” where name=”oldname.txt”
Run the statement by clicking the cogs button.
You will need to refresh the other areas of qualcoder to see the change.
Important: make the file names in the project folder match (specially for images, audio, video), also keep the file ending (.txt, .docx, .mp4, etc)