Thank you for creating a wonderful software and providing guidance through your community forums to researchers leveraging your software in our studies. Our study is currently using the Dyad Census capabilities and which we ask participant to identify if these two alters know each other. We constructed two protocols with different labels to account for the English and Spanish participants we recruit.
Currently, in the Dyad Census I do not see any capability to change the Yes / No (TRUE / FALSE) labels in this section. Please see screenshot below:
Thank you for the kind words about the tool and this online user community!
At present, there is no way to customize the labels for response options on the Dyad Census interface. That said, you may consider dropping the Dyad Census and utilizing the Tie-Strength Interface instead, which does allow for custom ordinal variables that indicate the strength of the tie between alters. This interface is designed to capture both an edge and an edge attribute. This may be the best option as it should allow for the customization you’re looking for, depending on the specifics of your study.
While this isn’t immediately helpful, we do plan to include language localization in the Network Canvas Studio platform currently under development by our team.
Thank you again for the really kind words about the software. They are much appreciated.
Kate has made an excellent suggestion that I hope will work for you.
I just want to point out that there is one additional option if you are using Fresco for your study. This is an advanced technique that has some drawbacks, but will allow you to localise some of the hard coded text on the interview screens.
Essentially, because Network Canvas is open source, you are able (and encouraged!) to make changes to the software as needed. In this scenario, you can find the hard coded strings used by the dyad census in the source code of the software, and change them to say whatever you would like (in whatever language you prefer). This is only really practical if you are using Fresco, because if you followed our deployment guide the app will automatically rebuild itself once you edit the code. The desktop apps have a much more complicated process that would make this less feasible.
You do not need advanced technical knowledge to do this - it can be done from a web browser, and it would take a matter of seconds.
The drawbacks of this would be:
You would not be able to customise the labels for different dyad census screens.
This would be an application wide change - all protocols you install would have these changes
Your version of Fresco would be different from ours, which might make updating more difficult.
However, for a single study I think these are reasonable compromises.
Let me know if you would like further instructions, and I would be happy to help.
Thank you @Kate and @Joshua for your help with this. We are currently using the software that needs to be downloaded. For future projects, we will go ahead and see if we can leverage Network Canvas Studio for future projects.
