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New features in Magpi!
Joel Selanikio ON 08 October 2012
Magpi (the “new EpiSurveyor” coming out in January) has more than 40 new features (as well as major improvements to old ones). Here’s the full list of new features:
- SPEED — Magpi is WAY faster than EpiSurveyor, even over a slow connection. You’ll notice the difference immediately. Fewer page loads, faster code, everything is just much faster.
- More free data — we’re increasing the annual upload limit for free users by 20% from 5000 per year to 6000 per year
- registration – register and login using your email address, username, or mobile number
- mapping - open your maps in Google Maps.
- mapping - color-code the pins on your map to match your data, just by choosing from a menu.
- mapping - publish live updating maps to stand-alone webpages for sharing
- mapping - embed live updating maps in other websites
- mapping – easy filtering of dates with pulldown menu of choices (e.g. “last week”, “this month”, etc)
- mapping – easy filtering by search terms
- mapping – easy filtering by user with pulldown menu of all data collectors
- analysis – publish live updating reports to stand-alone webpages for sharing
- analysis – embed live updating reports in other websites
- analysis – easy filtering of dates with pulldown menu of choices (e.g. “last week”, “this month”, etc)
- analysis – easy filtering by user with pulldown menu of all data collectors
- analysis – easy filtering by search terms
- data - checkbox questions are now automatically separated into individual yes/no questions in your dataset to make analysis easy
- data – easily enter data into on-screen forms complete with skip logic and other constraints
- data – share on-screen forms with non-Magpi users so they can enter data online (think of it as Survey Monkey Lite)
- data – Publish live updating datasets to stand-alone webpages for sharing
- data – Embed live updating datasets in other websites
- data – easy filtering of dates with pulldown menu of common choices (e.g. “last week”, “this month”, etc)
- data – easy filtering by user with pulldown menu of all data collectors
- data – easy filtering by search terms
- form design – modify forms after you’ve collected data
- form design - drag and drop single or multiple questions to change order
- form design – change question types at any time after making the question
- form design - cut/copy/paste single or multiple questions
- form design - import xforms from other form design software
- form design - keyboard shortcuts for question creation, form saving, and more
- form design - better logic with a completely new and much easier method of adding skips and other logic to a form.
- form design - photos and video questions (on iPhone and Android)
- enterprise – “white labeling” — use your own logo and branding when you log into the website
- enterprise – define teams of users to make sharing forms easier
- enterprise – bulk import of users
- enterprise – register users without an email address — no more creating gmail accounts for your enumerators
- enterprise – two week free Enterprise trial so you can try our API
- account – users can see their remaining upload credits, view and print invoices on account page
- account – users can upgrade or downgrade themselves on account page
- account – users can “top up” their upload credits themselves on account page
- general – click on column headers to sort
- general – better paging for list displays
- general – fewer page loads, for increased speed over slow connections
- general – system remembers filter settings when changing between data, maps, and analysis
- general – system collects three date-time stamps for each record: record start, record end, record submitted to server
We know you will love the new Magpi, and we’ll keep you posted as we get closer to the release!

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