This form generates an interview guide for your project. You can either have Symphony generate the complete document, or you can have Symphony simply make copies of a predefined document for each of your Respondents.
When the documents are generated, they are given the names of the Respondents, with "Interview Guide" appended. For example, "John Doe Interview Guide.doc".
A common practice among Symphony users is to transcribe interview responses to a Word document that contains the questions that were posed to the interviewees. This has the benefit of providing a permanent record of each interview. An additional benefit when using Symphony however is that the responses can be imported into Symphony, with optional pre-coding. If your project includes Codes where their Code Types have been set to Question, Symphony will output them to the report. Alternatively, you can also use a template that includes the questions you plan to ask, and have Symphony both create codes from the questions, and pre-code the comments to those codes. For more details, please see the topic Import Comments From Word Document.
To bring up the Interview Guide Form, choose Reports/Interview Guide from the Symphony menu.
 Source Document
This is the path and file name of the Word document to be copied.
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 Browse for Source Document
Click this button to navigate to and select the Source Document.
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 Output Directory
Specifies the directory in which to save the documents.
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 Browse for Output Directory
Click this button to navigate to and specify the Output Directory.
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 Include Respondent Info
When this box is checked, Symphony adds a Word form to the generated documents. The form contains fields for the Respondent first and last name, plus fields for each Demographic. The current values for each Respondent are filled in. When the document is imported, changes to these values replace the values in the project.
By default, the form is added to the beginning of the document. You can however direct Symphony where to place the form when you use a template (Source Document). You do so by adding a Word bookmark called "RESPONDENT_TABLE" at the location where you want the form to appear.
If the Respondent Info is included in the output, a section is created and is protected so that the consultant doesn't accidentally delete fields.
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 Check/Uncheck All
When you check this item, all other items become checked or unchecked, depending on whether this item was already checked.
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 Project Sample Document
When this item is checked, a document with the project's name is created. This document can then be distributed to team members in lieu of or in addition to predefined documents for each Respondent. This is useful when you don't know for certain who is going to be interviewed or if you elect not to define the Respondents first. If the Sample Document is distributed to the team members and Add Form is checked, this can be a convenient way of getting Respondents set up in Symphony, because once the document is complete, the team member can drag and drop the file onto the Respondents node in Standard View and Symphony will create a Respondent from the information included in the form.
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 Respondent Items
An entry is created for each Respondent. Check the checkbox next to each one for whom you want to generate a document.
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 Include Questions
When this box is checked, Symphony includes the Codes where the Code Type is set to Question. Symphony also includes any higher level codes needed for defining the complete path to the Questions. During or after the interviews, you transcribe the comments into the form in the appropriate places. When the document is imported, Symphony codes the comments to the codes in which they were transcribed.
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