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Using MRI-Simmons Catalyst

About Composer

The Composer tool is the selector tool for the Crosstab, Brand Catalyst, and Quick Report features. Composer allows users to search, pull, and edit criteria from survey and add it to a report while sorting and filtering categories. It flows from left to right, where criteria are searched on the left side of the tool and added to the report on the right side of the screen.

Depending on the product being launched (Crosstab, Quick Reports, or Brand Catalyst), the Composer will provide space for variable to be placed in a combination of Bases, Rows, Targets, or Columns. This informs how the data is selected, filtered, and presented.

Selecting, Organizing, and Filtering Survey Data

Each of the tools (Crosstab, Quick Reports, and Brand Catalyst) will prompt you to select, organize, and filter survey data before it creates the report, data visualization, or weighted tabulation. The Composer screens are nearly the same regardless of which of the tools you are using.

Using Composer

The main Composer screen will be displays as a an additional selection window. Note that the flow of the tool moves from top to bottom, left to right.

  1. First, select the Study survey data that you wish to pull from. For a current listing of the Studies available to chose from, see the Surveys Available tab.
  2. Then use the Dictionary to select from the survey data available.
    1. Dictionary: Search for criteria using the search bar at the top of the composer tool, or choose criteria by using the dropdown menus in the box on the left side of the screen.
    2. This criteria will appear in the adjacent box to the right.
  3. Click on the box next to the variable(s) you would like to add to the tool.
    1. Use Boolean (AND/OR/NOT) to combine variables, then click ADD to move them to the box to the right
  4. The Selection box has additional options to for functions, Boolean, changing the label, and, in the case of CrossTab, moving the variables to either rows or columns for the table.

Below is an example of the layout of Composer with the arrows demonstrating how the survey data will move through the window as it is selected, filtered, and organized.