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EFS Survey
First Steps
Version: 1.0
Date: 03.11.2008
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Contents
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Introduction
Running surveys on the Internet is simple. It is indeed – provided you use the right
tool. EFS Survey by Globalpark is a software solution that gives you appropriate and
ample assistance when setting up and running online surveys. By using EFS Survey
you may quickly turn your concept of a survey into a questionnaire, and from there it
is only a short way to get the results.
To master EFS Survey means to be in command of many functions. Seen from a gene-
ral perspective, EFS Survey provides support when
앫 setting up and pre-testing an online survey,
앫 managing the participants’ access,
앫 monitoring the incoming results while it is “in the field”,
앫 tayloring and requesting a report.
This introduction provides a detailed insight into EFS Survey and its features. You will
be made familiar with the nitty-gritty details of using EFS Survey. For instance, you
learn how to navigate EFS Survey, define filter conditions or invite participants.
We think the best way to master EFS Survey is to make use of it and work with it. For
this reason, we decided to write a hands-on introduction. It guides you through all
steps necessary to set up a survey. We assume that the reader is unfamiliar with EFS
Survey. We do expect, however, that the reader has some experience with Internet
applications and is interested in working through some or even all of the examples
shown in this introduction.
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Information on changes of Globalpark product names
Please note that our product names have changed with the Software Release 5.2 of
September 2007. They are now bundled in the Globalpark Enterprise Feedback Suite
(EFS).
Products:
Functional extensions:
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1 Getting Started
This edition of First steps is based on release 6.0 of ESF Survey. Depending on which
installation of EFS Survey you use there can be minor feature differences.
1.2 Log In
In order to log into the administration area of an EFS Survey installation you need a
valid account and a password. Usually you will find the log in under the URL http://
www.your-domain.com/www/
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Is the admin area displayed in the wrong language? You can easily change the lan-
guage settings yourself: In the upper right corner of the screen you can find a link
that enables you to switch from the German to the English admin area and back
again. Click the link and the language will change.
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2. Breadcrumb
The breadcrumb makes orientation and navigation easier: You always know on which
level of the menu you’re working, and you can swap from one level of the menu to
another by just clicking on a breadcrumb link.
4. Content area
The actual work takes place in the central content area in the middle of the screen. By
selecting different tabs you can choose from various sub topics and you can make ent-
ries and trigger actions with the help of dialogs, icons, pop-up windows or links.
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Preliminary steps
Before you can create a specific questionnaire in EFS Survey you usually have to do
some detailed preparations.
앫 First you have to determine subject and target group of the survey. In the demo
survey created in this introduction for beginners Internet users will be asked to
evaluate a specific website.
앫 You have to select an appropriate survey type. As we do not have any data of the
participants in our demo survey we choose to conduct an anonymous survey. (In
Chapter 3, S. 47 you will set up a personalized survey in which the personal data
of the participants are known to you beforehand.)
앫 In order to create a questionnaire you need to be familiar with the different ques-
tion types and tools of EFS Survey:
– which question type is best suited for a specific question?
– which page of the questionnaire should contain which questions, sub titles and
multimedia elements?
– where to put a specific filter (i.e. which pages should only be visible to specific
participants)?
– which questions and answer items should be filtered (i.e. should only be visible
to specific participants)?
You can find a draft for the demo project which you are going to implement in the
appendix (Chapter 5, S. 61). It contains all relevant details needed to create a ques-
tionnaire with EFS Survey.
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Sequence of operations
After you have done the relevant project preparations you can implement the project.
In the course of our demo project you will do the following steps:
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Figure 2.2 The menu of the “Projects” module and the list of projects
Figure 2.3 Choosing the appropriate project type for the new project
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To create the questionnaire, click the Questionnaire editor menu item. The question-
naire editor is opened.
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For your demo project only the final page has been created automatically so far. You
will soon create all other pages yourself.
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1. By clicking on the Questionnaire editor menu item you get to level 1, the questi-
onnaire view. It shows a list of the different pages of the questionnaire.
2. If you click on a page title in the questionnaire view you get to level 2, the page
view. The questions on a questionnaire page are listed.
Figure 2.8 List of already created questions on a questionnaire page in the page view
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3. If you click on a question title in the page view you get to level 3, the question view.
You will see the text elements and all other relevant settings for a specific question.
Figure 2.9 The text elements and settings of a question in the question view
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4. You have to choose an appropriate question type. Click on the Show available
question types icon. (As soon as you have familiarized yourself with the question
types of EFS Survey, you can use the drop-down list instead: selecting a group of
questions opens a list of the corresponding question types with schemas.)
5. A list of all question types with schematics is shown.
Figure 2.12 Extract of the detail view of the EFS Survey question types
6. For the welcome text you do not need any further question elements. You will only
use HTML text. Therefore you select the question type HTML code (998).
7. Confirm with Create. You get to the third level of the questionnaire editor, the
question view, where you will see an entry form to enter texts.
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8. Enter the text. You can either add HTML tags yourself or use the formatting fea-
tures.
9. Confirm with Save.
10. Click on the tab Preview question. In the pop-up window you can see the question
from a future participant’s point of view.
11. Click on the tab Questionnaire to get back to the questionnaire view.
12. The icons in the column “Actions” offer a variety of options to edit the newly-
created standard page: Preview, Create new page or filter, Copy, Search / replace,
Edit page, Page tree import under page “X” and Delete.
13. Click on the Preview icon to view the complete starting page.
If you want to change the text of the Forward button, click on Back to survey menu.
Open the Project properties menu. In the Survey messages submenu you can edit
the text of the buttons and other important survey messages.
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Steps:
1. In order to create the next page click on the tab Create new page or filter.
Figure 2.16 Adding the question title and choosing the question type
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6. Enter the question text and the texts of the answer categories.
7. In order to delete the fifth answer category, click in the checkbox in the column
“Delete”.
8. Save your entries.
9. Click on the tab Preview question to view the question you have just created.
With the question preview you can only see the specific question. Whereas in the
page preview which you have used on page 20 in step 13 the whole page is shown.
You can find the page preview in the question view menu, as a tab in the page view
and as an icon in the questionnaire view.
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Steps:
1. Create a standard page with the title “Attention”.
2. Create a question with the question type Multiple response list (vertical) (121).
3. Enter the question text, the fill-in instruction and the first three answer categories
(items). Activate the checkbox “Delete” for the answer categories which you do not
need.
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6. Save again.
7. The answer category with text field is created. Optionally you can change width and
maximum length of the text.
Figure 2.20 The completed multiple response question with additional text field
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Steps:
1. Create a new page with the title “If search engine”. Please make sure that you select
the type “Filter” instead of “Standard”.
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6. Choose the appropriate variable (v_14 is the variable of the answer category
“search engine” in the example shown in the illustration) and the code (1 for “Quo-
ted”.
7. Go back to the entry form for the filter definitions. Select the appropriate variable
which defines the filter in the select box, select the condition and the code: If a
participant has chosen the item “search engine” (variable 14=1) in the previous
question he is supposed to see the page beneath the filter page.
8. Confirm with Save.
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Figure 2.25 The saved filter condition for the filter page
9. Via the Back link you get back to the questionnaire view.
Steps:
1. Create a standard page with the title “Which search engine”. To do so, choose the
Create new page or filter icon in the row of the newly created filter page.
2. After successfull creation, the page “Which search engine” is shown indented bene-
ath the filter page.
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Figure 2.27 The indented page “Which search engine” beneath the filter page
Is the page “Which search engine” not indented in your questionnaire editor?
The page will only be automatically indented in the questionnaire view if you have
used the Create new page or filter icon in the line of the filter page ”If search
engine“ in order to create a new page.
If you have used the Create new page or filter tab you have to click on the arrow
pointing to the right in the column “Move” to reposition the page.
3. Create a question of the question type Text field (single row) (141) on the new page.
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Steps:
1. Create a standard page with the title “Evaluation”.
If you use the Create new page or filter icon in the line of the ”Which search engine“
filter page instead of the tab, the page will be indented in the filter branch. Click on
the arrow pointing to the left in the “Move” column to reposition it.
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Figure 2.29 Opening the section “Scale options” in the question view of a standard matrix
5. Open the section “Scale options” by clicking on the [+] icon to edit the properties
of the scale.
6. An entry form for the answer scale is shown.
7. Enter the four properties from 1=“I strongly agree” to 4=“I absolutely disagree”
and define the fifth property “No answer” as a missing value.
8. Save your changes and check the result in the preview.
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If the left margin with the item texts is too small, change the number of pixels in
the line “Width of the left column with the question texts (in pixel)” (see below).
Steps:
1. Create a standard page titled “Sections”.
2. Create a question of the question type Multiple response list (vertical) (121) .
3. Enter the question text and the fill-in instruction.
4. Activate the checkbox “Delete” for all existing answer categories.
5. Save your entries.
6. Click on the Mass-import items button.
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10. Check if all items have been created correctly. If necessary you can delete or add
items, change the sort number or the type.
11. Confirm by clicking on Save.
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Steps:
1. Create a standard page titled “Evaluation of sections” and add a question of the
question type Standard matrix (311). Enter the question text and the fill-in
instruction, the answer scales and the items of the matrix and Save your entries.
2. By using the Funnel icons in the column “Hiding condition” of the entry mask you
determine the hiding conditions for each item. Select the Funnel icon for the first
item. An entry mask for hiding conditions will appear.
3. Click on the Codebook menu item to open the codebook in a second window, and
choose the appropriate variables with the help of the codebook.
4. Determine the hiding condition: if the section “Software” hasn´t been named in
the previous question i.e the code of the variable related to it is equal 0, then it
should be hidden.
5. Save your entries. Click on the Back link to get back to the question you were just
creating.
6. The Copy hiding condition and Delete hiding conditions icons are shown next to
the Edit hiding conditions icon.
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Alternatively you can use lists instead of hiding conditions in the above and similar
situations. A detailed explanation how to work with lists is given in Chapter 7.3 of
the EFS Survey manual 6.0.
The answers to the question about the year of birth will be checked by a plausibility
check to make sure the entered value is within a reasonable range, e.g. between 1900
and 2000.
The participant can only continue to fill in the questionnaire if the data is entered as a
four digit number and is within the predetermined range.
Steps:
1. Create a standard page titled “Demography”.
2. Create a question with the question type HTML code (998) titled “Text”, enter the
text and Save your entries.
3. Click the Page menu item to get back to the page view.
4. On the same page create the question “Gender” with the question type Single
response list (vertical) (111). As you have learned earlier on enter the question text
and the items. Save your entries.
5. On the same page create the question “Year of birth” with the question type Text
field (single row) (141) .
6. Enter the question text and the fill-in instruction.
7. Confine the width of the text field and the maximum input length to a four digit
number.
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10. In the section “Add new plausibility check” select the required check type “Range
check” and click on Add.
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11. Use the codebook to find the variable for the text field “Year of birth” and set the
drop-down list accordingly. Determine the valid range of numbers.
12. Enter the following plausibility check message: “Please enter your year of birth as
a four-digit number!”
13. Complete the process with Save.
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Steps:
1. Create a standard page titled “Competition”.
2. Create a question of the question type HTML code with the title “Text”, enter the
text and Save your entries.
3. Now you have to upload an image from your PC and integrate it into the media
library of the project. Click on Questionnaire to go back to the questionnaire view
and select the Media library menu item.
4. Click on the Upload file button.
5. The entry mask to upload new multimedia elements appears. Search the hard disk
of your PC.
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Please use only the jpeg format and the gif format. Do not use any bitmaps!
6. Optionally, you can define a wildcard that can be used to incorporate the image e.g.
into an answer category. Further information can be found in the EFS Survey
manual 6.0 in Chapter 7.1.3.
7. Activate “Show ’images’ directory after upload”, to make the software jump back
into the main directory after the upload process.
8. Finally, click on Upload to integrate the image into the media library
9. At the end of the process, the image will be displayed in the media library.
10. Change to the questionnaire view via the Back to questionnaire menu item.
11. Create a question of the question type Multimedia (999) titled “Digital camera”.
12. In the question view you can choose the appropriate image.
Figure 2.44 Choosing the picture in the question view for the question type “Multimedia”
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Steps:
1. Create a standard page titled “Newsletter”.
2. Create a question titled “Address data – competition” of the question type Text field
matrix (vertical) (143).
3. Enter the question texts and the item texts. By entering an item text in the line
“new” and saving your entries you can create additional items.
4. Now you have to determine the hiding condition on question level. Click on Edit
hiding condition in the question view.
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If the Edit hiding condition link is not displayed, click the Question options icon in
the header and activate the additional option “Hiding condition for this question”.
5. The entry form for hiding conditions is opened. You can determine the hiding con-
dition with the help of the codebook: If “participation in the competition equals
no” (the variable v_42 for the “Competition” equals 2 in the example shown below),
the question will not be displayed. Alternatively you can select the variable, and
then click the binoculars icon in the column “Code”. A pop-up window opens,
offering the codes which belong to the selected variable.
6. Click on Save.
7. Click on Back to editor. In the question view you will find the definition and a new
Delete hiding condition link next to the Edit hiding condition link.
8. Add a second question titled “E-mail” of the question type Text field (single row)
(141) on the same page and enter the question text. Don’t forget to Save your
entries.
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Steps:
1. Click on the title of the final page in the questionnaire view and create a question
of the question type HTML code (998). As you have learned in Chapter 2.2.1, S. 18
you can format the text yourself.
2. Insert a “Close window” button: Place the cursor in the entry field, and select the
option “Insert ’Close window’ button” in the drop down list “Insert code automati-
cally”. The following HTML code will be added automatically:
<br>
<div align=center>
<input type=”button” onClick=”window.close()” value=”Close window”>
</div>
<br>
3. Save your entries.
Figure 2.49 Determining the field time and activating the survey
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Compiling
All data created e.g. by tests in productive mode must be deleted before the start of the
survey. Click on the Compile menu item. Select “Delete all survey data” and click on
Compile survey. Now the database is newly created and all test data deleted.
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Field report
The field report provides information about the number of participants and the break-
off rate.
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Online statistics
At any time during the survey the online statistics provides an overview of the answers
to closed questions that have been collected so far. You can either get the data regar-
ding specific questions or you can get the data concerning the whole survey.
Figure 2.52 Online statistics for a multiple response question and a matrix
Open-ended answers
In this menu, you can view the answers to open-ended questions.
If you want to offer information on the survey progress and survey results to your
staff members or clients without giving them access to internal features of the pro-
ject in the admin area it is recommended to use EFS Survey Status. As EFS Survey
Status is completely separated from the internal project area an accidental manipu-
lation of survey settings is impossible. On most EFS Survey installations you can
find the login to ESF Survey Status on http://www.your-domain.com/report/ See the
EFS Survey manual 6.0, Chapter 12.9 for further information.
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Detailed information on the export options can be found in the EFS Survey manual
6.0 in Chapter 13.
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The demo survey created in Chapter 2, S. 11 is an anonymous survey, i.e. you do not
know the participants. Chapter 3 presents the second project type that can be realized
with EFS Survey, the personalized survey. This project type is characterized by a rest-
ricted number of participants whose personal data is known beforehand. In contrast to
an anonymous survey, you can invite these participants personally by e-mail.
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3. After you have entered the participants’ data click on the Save button to store the
data.
Importing participants
1. Use the Import participants button to open the import dialog.
2. Click the Download import template button and save the template on your PC.
3. Open the file with an appropriate editor, e.g. Microsoft Excel, and enter the data of
your participants. (For details on the formatting rules, please see Chapter 11.2.7 of
the EFS Survey manual 6.0.)
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6. EFS Survey automatically assigns the columns of the import file and the approp-
riate fields of the database.
Figure 3.7 Assigning the columns of the import file to the database fields
8. The import preview shows all data records as they will be imported into the project.
As of EFS 6.0, you can edit data in the preview.
9. If you are content, click Import data to trigger the import.
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6. Make sure the wildcards have been replaced by the data for the specific partici-
pants. If you are satisfied with the result click on Send.
7. If you click on the Mail transmission report menu item you will find a list of the
mails which have been sent.
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4 Creating a Layout for Your Questionnaire
In the last chapter of the introduction for beginners you will explore the possibilities
offered by EFS Survey to create a layout for your questionnaire. By clicking on the
Layout menu item in the Survey menu, you can access numerous features to edit the
design, both for normal EFS Survey users and for users with HTML and CSS program-
ming experiences.
In the EFS Survey manual 6.0, Chapter 8 you can find detailed information on the
topic layout.
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Changing spaces
With the Spaces tab you can edit the spaces between the various elements of a question
for the complete project.
Detailed information can be found in the EFS Survey manual 6.0, Chapter 8.8.2.
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Page: Start
Question title: Start
Question type: HTML code, 998
Question text: Welcome to Globalpark’s website check
Your opinion about our Internet presence is important to us.
Please take part in our short online survey.
Best regards
Your Globalpark team
Page: Attention
Question title: Attention
Question type: Multiple response list (vertical), 121
Question text: How did you get to know our website?
Fill-in instruction: (multiple answers are possible)
앫 friends
앫 search engine
앫 link on another website
앫 others ____________
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Page: Evaluation
Question title: Evaluation
Question type: Standard matrix 1, 311
Question text: Please evaluate the following aspects of our website.
Page: Sections
Question title: Sections
Question type: Multiple response list (vertical), 121
Question text: Which sections of Globalpark’s website do you know?
앫 Software
앫 Consulting
앫 The company
앫 Service
1 2 3 4
Software
Consulting
The company
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(cont.) 1 2 3 4
Service
Page: Demography
Question title: Text
Question type: HTML code, 998
Question text: You have nearly completed the survey. Please answer some questions
about yourself.
Question title: Gender
Question type: Single response list, 111
Question text: You are...
앫 male
앫 female
Question title: Year of birth
Question type: Text field (single row), 141
Question text: How old are you?
Fill-in instruction: Please enter your year of birth as a four-digit number.
Page: Competition
Question title: Text
Question type: HTML code, 998
Question text: We would like to invite you to take part in our competition. The prize
will be this digital camera:
Question title: Digital camera
Question type: Multimedia, 999
Question title: Competition
Question type: Single response list (vertical), 111
Question text: Do you want to take part in the competition?
앫 yes
앫 no
Page: Newsletter
Hiding condition on question level: The question “Adress data - competition” is not
shown if the participant has chosen “no” in the question “Competition” on the pre-
vious page.
Question title: Address data - competition
Question type: Text field matrix (vertical), 143
Question text: In case you win the prize we need your address.
Name ____________
Surname ____________
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Street ____________
Zip/Postal code ____________
City ____________
E-mail address ____________
Question title: Newsletter
Question type: Text field (single row), 141
Question text: We hoped that you enjoyed the survey. If you want to subscribe to our
monthly newsletter please fill in your e-mail address:
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Index
Index
A M
Activating a project 42 Mail sender 52
Anonymous survey 11 Mail template 53
Matrix question 29
B Menu 9
Breadcrumb 9 Module 8
Buttons Monitoring a survey 44
changing labels 20 Multiple response list 22
C N
Changing project type 49 Navigation bar 8
Codebook 25 New project 12
Compiling a project 43
Content area 9 O
Copying a project 49 Online statistics 45
Open-ended answers 45
E
EFS Survey Status 45 P
Exporting data 45 Page view 16
Participant administration 50
F Participant data 50
Field report 44 Password 9
Filter 24 Personalized survey 47
Final page 42 Plausibility checks 34
Form elements 59 layout 59
Formats 59 Progress bar 59
Project list 12
G Project type 11
Graphical form elements 59 Projects
module 12
H
Hiding conditions Q
on item level 32 Question types 19
on question level 40 Question view 17
Questionnaire page 18
I Questionnaire view 16
Images 36
Import of item list 31 S
Invitation e-mails 52 Single response list 20
Inviting participants Spaces 59
anonymous survey 43 Standard matrix 29
personalized survey 50 Survey menu 14
Survey messages 20
L Survey type 11
Language selection 8
Layout 57 T
Layout templates 59 Test 43
Log in 7
Logos 58
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