Merge Studies

You can search and create graphs for all recordings in the same study. Manager automatically puts imported recordings into the same study if their study configurations match. If they do not match, you can merge the recordings into a single study.

You may want to keep multiple related studies in the same project to help analyzing over the lifetime of a project. For example, you may start your project with a focus group, followed by paper prototype testing, electronic prototype testing, and final product testing. With these four studies in the same Morae project, you can create highlight clips with videos and graphs from all of the studies.

Merge studies:

• When you import recordings, or
• By dragging and dropping recordings into a study in the Project pane

See the following topics for more information:

• Merge Recordings into a Study
• Match Task Definitions
• Match Task Scores
• Match Marker Definitions
• Match Marker Scores
• Match Survey Questions

Merge Recordings into a Study

To merge a study:

1. With a project open in Manager, choose File > Import > Recordings. If the study configurations of the recordings do not match each other or if the imported recordings don't match an existing study, the Mismatched Study Configurations dialog box appears.
    
2. Click the Merge Recordings Into a Single Study button. The Select Study dialog box appears.
   If you click the Don't Merge Recordings and Create Multiple Studies button, the recordings are imported into multiple studies. 
    
3. Select a study for the recordings.
   Click Show/Hide Details to view which recordings match the study.
4. Click View Study Details to open a copy of the study details for the selected study.
5. When finished, click OK. The Merge Recordings into Study dialog box appears.
    
6. For any of the items that list Mismatched, click Match. For more information on matching specific items, see:
   • Match Task Definitions
   • Match Task Scores
   • Match Marker Definitions
   • Match Marker Scores
   • Match Survey Questions
7. When you finish matching items, click OK to merge the recordings into the study.

Match Task Definitions

	Select a task definition on the left from the recording.
	Select a task definition on the right from the study.
	Click Match.
	The matched marker appears below: If you match a task, Matched appears. If you are changing a definition, Becomes appears. If you are defining an undefined task, Defines appears. If you are adding a new task Added as New appears.
	To change any of the matched task definitions, click Unmatch and the task definitions reappear in the Unmatched group box. Click Add to add a new task definition to the study.

Match Task Scores

	Select a task score on the left from the recording.
	Select a task score on the right from the study.
	Click Match.
	The matched task score appears below: If you match a task score, Matched appears. If you are changing a task score, Becomes appears. If you are defining an undefined task score, Defines appears.
	To change any of the matched task scores, click Unmatch and the task score definitions reappear in the Unmatched group box.

Match Marker Definitions

	Select a marker definition on the left from the recording.
	Select a marker definition on the right from the study.
	Click Match.
	The matched marker appears below: If you match a marker, Matched appears. If you are changing a definition, Becomes appears. If you are defining an undefined marker, Defines appears.
	To change any of the matched marker definitions, click Unmatch and definitions reappear in the Unmatched group box.

Match Marker Scores

	Select a marker score on the left from the recording.
	Select a marker score on the right from the study.
	Click Match.
	The matched marker score appears below: If you match a score, Matched appears. If you are changing a score definition, Becomes appears. If you are defining an undefined score, Defines appears.
	To change any of the matched marker scores, click Unmatch and the marker score definitions reappear in the Unmatched group box.

Match Survey Questions

If you merge recordings with different surveys, you need to look at and update the surveys. During study merging, all surveys that do not match are added to the study, and answers from matching surveys are merged into the existing surveys.

Why Match Surveys?

For all recording within a study, you can:

• Export survey results into a comma separated values (CSV) file to open in other programs, such as Microsoft Office Excel.
• Graph survey answer frequency and average scores.
• Automatically calculate mean and standard deviation of scores (found in the graph data table.)

To view and edit an individual survey:

	Select a study tab.
	Select a survey from the dropdown list of all surveys in the selected study.
	Click to export all results for the selected survey as a CSV file.
	Click a recording name to open the survey for editing.
	Edit or enter survey answers for the selected recording.