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DCN Next Generation
Multi Voting
en Software User Manual
LBB 4176/00
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About this manual Manual conventions This user manual is divided into five chapters. For clarity this user manual uses consistent styles, Chapters 1 and 2 provide background information, symbols and typographical conventions. They are: chapters 3 and 4 provide detailed user information and chapter 5 provides import and export i Note information as follows: • Chapter 1 - Multi Voting - containing a brief General notes are contained within rules and overview of the Digital Congress Ne
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 3 Table of contents 1 Multi Voting ...............................................................................4 3.4 Viewing results during or after voting .............. 16 1.1 About multi voting ................................................... 4 Specifying which results are displayed.....................17 1.1.1 What is multi voting?.............................................. 4 3.5 Specifying settings.....................................
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 4 5.4.1 Introduction.............................................................35 Opinion Poll - in an opinion poll, participants 5.4.2 Script + results export file layout.......................35 choose from a number of answers. There can be Identification.....................................................................35 between two and 24 answer options. Voting info.........................................................................35
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 5 Voting results shown as a percentage are given to one decimal place. For a Multi voting, the exact percentage is always rounded down to obtain the one decimal place figure; for instance, 50.99% is rounded down to 50.9%. This prevents a percentage being rounded up to the majority limit when in fact the limit has not been reached. The leftover percentage, in this case 0.09%, is added on to the ‘not voted’ or the ‘abstain’ figure. If neither is pos
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 6 modules will not run without the appropriate 2 Getting started installation or names file. Multi Voting requires an installation file in order to function correctly. It also makes use of one specific 2.1 Starting multi voting area of information contained within the names file; the assigning of delegates to user-specified groups 2.1.1 The Startup screen within the conference. The results of the voting of The Multi Voting program is started f
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 7 An on-screen page with the requested information • Select the ‘Help’ menu and click on ‘Glossary’. will appear. A list of terms used in the help facility is given in alphabetical order. For more information on any 2.2.3 Keyboard term contained in the glossary: This gives information on which keys on your • Click on the required subject in the index. keyboard can be used with the software. This includes using keys to activate menu items, to mov
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 8 3 Preparing for a conference i Note For details on opening a script file, please refer to page 9. 3.1 The preparation window The Preparation window of the Multi Voting module The menu bar for the control screen is used to prepare votings. From this window it is All menu options referred to in this user manual are possible to create new votings and edit existing ones. contained within the menu bar, located underneath You can also access t
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 9 • Click on the ‘Ok’ push button to return to the i Note dialogue and enter a valid name. Leaving the Multi Voting program is not Opening an existing script file covered in this section, but under ‘Exiting Multi To open an existing script file: Voting’ in paragraph 4.4. Similarly, printing is covered in paragraph3.6, and copying in • Select the ‘File’ menu and click on ‘Open’. paragraph 3.3.6. The following dialogue box appears: Creating a
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 10 The following dialogue box appears: ‘Are you sure you want to delete file ?’ If you still wish to continue: • Click on the ‘Ok’ push button. The selected file will be deleted. Importing a script file It is possible to import a script file from outside the Multi Voting application. To import a script file: • Select the ‘File’ menu and click on ‘Import Script...’. Figure 6 The ‘Save As’ dialogue box The following dialogue box appea
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 11 i Note i Note This is only possible if the script contains This is only possible if the script contains Multiple Choice questions and no information Multiple Choice questions and no information of other voting types. of other voting types. i Note i Note When a Multiple Choice script file contains When a Multiple Choice script file contains more than 40 questions, the file is no longer more than 40 questions, the file is no longer
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 12 0001 to 9999 and must be unique. If it is not, a • Click on the ‘Subject’ edit field. warning message will appear when you attempt to insert the edited voting back into the ‘Current’ list, • Type in the required voting information. and the insertion will not take place. To edit the voting number: 3.3.1 Voting answers • Click on the ‘Number’ edit field. You can specify the number of answer options, the LCD text and the answer text, which will
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 13 specified, this appears to the left of each answer is stopped, it is possible to send the results to hall option. For information about specifying legend texts, displays. see paragraph 3.5.2. • Individual + Total on PC only - total and individual interim results will be visible only on If the number of answer options is greater than five, a the control PCs. After voting is stopped, it is scroll bar is active and can be used to scroll up or possi
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 14 • Select the ‘Results’ menu and click on • Select the ‘Results’ menu and click on ‘Answers’. ‘Absolute’. If the option was previously enabled (indicated by a If the option was previously enabled (indicated by a tick mark) it will become disabled. If it was disabled, tick mark) it will become disabled. If it was disabled, it will become enabled (indicated by a tick mark). it will become enabled (indicated by a tick mark). Specifying delegate names
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 15 answer options. To specify this option: an existing voting is almost identical to that for creating a new voting. The only differences are that • Select the ‘Results’ menu and click on you must recall the voting you wish to edit from the ‘Thermometer’ then ‘Results Window’. voting list, and therefore the edit fields are not The voting results will be displayed in the form of a necessarily empty. The specifying of voting number, name and kind, vo
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 16 select the desired entry by clicking on it. i Note Votings that have been located using the ‘Search’ If the ‘Current Script:’ list contains a voting facility are selected for insertion in the same way as with the same voting number as one being those selected from the voting list. inserted, the inserted voting is shown in the ‘Current Script:’ list with a new number. After inserting a voting, the last selected position in 3.3.6 Editing th
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 17 The Results window will appear: of the window and displays the number of delegates who have not voted in the second voting. i Note If the Quorum and/or Majority options are selected, Present and Not Voted are replaced by displays giving information about the selected quorum and majority as follows: Quorum - displays the number of authorized delegates who are present Req. Quorum - displays the required number of delegates as determined b
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 18 contain a list of all groups that have been specified 3.5.1 Specifying timed vote for the current conference using the Delegate The Multi Voting module incorporates a timer facility that allows you to set a time limit for any Database module. The default setting is ‘All’, so voting results of all participants will be displayed. vote. From the ‘Voting Timer’ dialogue box you can The left hand display area refers to the current set the time limit a
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 19 3.5.4 Specifying 100% votes You can specify how the number of delegates taking part in a vote is calculated. • Select the ‘Settings’ menu and click on ‘100% Votes’. The following dialogue box appears: Figure 18 The ‘Legends’ dialogue box From the ‘LCD’ drop-down list box: • Select the LCD legend text by clicking on the required option. There are three options: ‘Yes’, ‘No’, ‘Yes’, ‘No’, ‘Abstain’ or ‘Yes’, ‘No’, ‘Abstain’, ‘NPPV’. In the
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DCN Next Generation Multi Voting en | 20 for each delegate, can be applied. To apply vote weighting: i Note • Select the ‘Settings’ menu and click on ‘Vote The present key is disabled on delegate and Weighting’. chairman units if the ‘Valid Votes’ or If the option was previously enabled (indicated by a ‘Authorized Votes’ setting is selected. tick mark) it will become disabled. If it was disabled, it will become enabled (indicated by a tick mark). 3.5.5 Specifying roll call You
