I saw this question in the forum and replied there. Maybe upload a screen shot of where you are clicking "PHPmyadmin". I usually just go to localhost/phpmyadmin and do not click on anything, so I am not sure what click you are making where.

Hi Hyunsung, sorry just saw this now. Comments in the wiki are not easy to see and do not promote conversation. Going to the forum (www.qualintitative.com/forum) is the fastest way to get my attention.

Oh I see that we already discussed this on the forum: http://www.qualintitative.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=47#p47

The answer is the same, we have not developed that part for viewing the network via data processing. It is only available in a Network question during an interview. It would not be that difficult to add but I generally visualize data I collect outside of EgoWeb, in R. If I was going to invest in developing these features, I would do more with building an R interface that directly accessed data in EgoWeb databases and would, therefore, have the full power of R and R development instead of duplicating effort within EgoWeb for data analysis.

Hi Sydney,

No, sorry! Good idea, but there is only one random number generation feature and that is at the ego level. Adding more functionality for choosing subsets of alters based on something other than previous alter questions is a good thing to put on a to do list but it does not exist right now.

Hi Jamie,

I have been testing this out on my own machine to see what might be the problem since I have heard a few users run into some recent trouble. I was not able to install because there is a new version of PHP that does not work with the encryption engine. However, I just tried the Mac fix (using AMPPS) for my own Windows machine and that worked fine. Everything is the same except for file locations (Macs store AMPPS files in "Applications" and Windows puts them into "Program Files" and you can skip Step 6 completely because there isn't a problem with hidden files for Windows machines like the Macs. At least that is what worked for me. I'm going to update the instructions. Maybe if you want you can give it a try and let me know how it went.

dave

Hello,

In case you haven't found a solution yet, I was running into the same problem. I had to drop the egoweb database through phpmyadmin.

Then I changed the config file for MySql. Open up AMPPS and click on the gear next to the MySql label - then click on to change the config file. Look for [mysqld]. Paste 'innodb_force_recovery = 0' (without quotes) underneath [mysqld]

Then recreate database and follow the rest of the instructions.

I recently re-wrote a lot of the wiki info about exporting data. You can find it under "Data Processing". Here is the link: http://www.qualintitative.com/wiki/doku.php/process.

I think the new text might help answer your questions. The expressions serve a few purposes. They primarily define when a question should be presented to a respondent or not. Counting and comparison expressions are not very intuitive and I would love to revamp how they work, but they are ways to change which questions appear or not during interviews based on previous question responses. Most of the time I just use simple and compound expressions.

Simple expressions about alter-pair questions also help define an edge from the alter-pair raw question data. The edge definitions are necessary for drawing edges in graphs in network questions and when viewing a network in data processing. They are also necessary for exporting network statistics along with the ego and alter level raw data. Basically they define how to dichotomize the edge from an alter-pair question for calculating density, degree centrality, etc. The only relevant expressions for the network statistics export are the alter-pair expressions, so that is why they are the only expressions that show up in the drop down menus for edge expressions (to avoid confusion).

As for using R with the data exported from egoweb, yes this is what I use all the time. The data are exported as .csv so that they can be exported into most any other statistics program. The variables that come directly from EgoWeb 2.0 data export are limited to just a few. EgoWeb is mostly used in conjunction with other analysis programs and R packages because there are many of them that are being developed and there is no reason to duplicate effort.

Till Krenz created an R package called "egoR" (formerly "egonetR" but changed to avoid confusion with the package "egonet") for processing egocentric data and he added an EgoWeb import function. I have not used this package much yet but worked with Till to format the EgoWeb output in a format that enabled consistent importing.

It is on CRAN. Here is the link to the egor description: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/egor/vignettes/using_egor.html

Here is the repository on github: https://github.com/tilltnet/egor

Hi Alexandra,

I'll be working on revising the instructions over the next month or two before I give a workshop at the next North American Regional Social Networks (NASN) Conference: http://insna.org/nasn2018/.

Lots of things changed when we added multiple name generators. We decided to make the entire questionnaire authoring section more flexible, so that you do not have to have hard coded sections of ego questions first followed by the name generator then the alter section then the alter pair section then network questions. You can put them in that order but now it is more mix and match.

Most of the instructions for ego questions, alter questions, etc. are still the same but now there is just one question section and you can choose to make each question an alter question, ego question etc.

This page gives an overview of these new features: http://www.qualintitative.com/wiki/doku.php/multinamegenerator.

I have to convert the screen shots for the old instructions to the new features. We still have some minor tweaks to make to finalize this work so I was putting it off until that is finished. But I will be doing that soon.

Here are a few thoughts off the top of my head. You mention the spelling of the email address and that is typically a problem but make sure the case matches and there are no additional spaces, etc. You can make it work on your computer but that could happen if you are logged in to EgoWeb as an admin/super admin. Make sure you are logged out to test an external participant. What I sometimes do is to test with a browser that I don't usually use and am not normally logged into because I have sometimes tested and thought the links should be working but then realized I was logged in. Another thing to check is to look in Data Processing and see if this id was already used. If there was an interview started with this id I think this error comes up if another attempt is made to use the same ID. Just some quick thoughts that hopefully will help resolve the problem.

I thought I answered this over email but maybe not. Sorry for the delay in responding.

The option to send links to participants does not require them to download and install the software. Even if they do that is not how it works. It works via a web browser so no installation required. However, if the EgoWeb you are using to send the links is installed on a laptop/desktop computer that is not a web server (people cannot see it via their own web browser) you can't send them links. It needs to be installed on a web server, so something like AWS or some other virtual host or if you are working somewhere where a server can be set up, etc. I use a service called Linode. This of course requires some web server set up expertise. There are instructions here for setting up a Linode server.

If you are using a Mac, we just fixed the instructions. MAMP was no longer working well with Mac OS so we changed the instructions to use AMPPS. A few users who had this problem were able to get going with the new instructions.

http://www.qualintitative.com/wiki/doku.php/install#install_egoweb_20_on_a_mac_os_machine

I recently tried to install the latest version of EgoWeb on my new computer for the first time and I am also getting this exact error.

For those using a Mac, we just fixed the instructions. MAMP was no longer working well with Mac OS so we changed the instructions to use AMPPS. A few users who had this problem were able to get going with the new instructions.

http://www.qualintitative.com/wiki/doku.php/install#install_egoweb_20_on_a_mac_os_machine

Hi Catherine,

I think you might be picturing this page being integrated with where you are using EgoWeb, but it is not. This is just an informational page. I see that you are registered here with a ufl account. You are probably using a server set up by BEBR or someone else at UF (just guessing based on other people who have contacted me). This new wiki has nothing to do with that (other than it is information for how to use EgoWeb 2.0).

Registering on this page is just so that you can post comments, make edits, etc. I initially had it open and not requiring registration but there was a major wave of spam, so I set it to require registration by default, but it is not necessary to register to see this page and it does not impact where you have been using EgoWeb 2.0.

Hope that helps! I set your registration to "member" which gives you any access you should need to modify pages if you want.