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It has been possible to enter information manually into a cell of any Event line since INTERACT version 7.

This allows you to use INTERACT as a kind of Excel-sheet that is able to control your video(s).

Create Events Manually

Besides the usual ways of logging new Events or creating pre-defined intervals, you can also add single Events manually:

▪Click Start - Edit - Add Event to create a new empty Event line.

Enter Descriptive Information

Manually typing information is possible at all times:

▪Click into a Cell and type whatever you want to use to describe that Event.

Activate Dropdown-Editor

To easily re-use information you entered before, without the need to pre-define codes up-front, INTERACT 20 offers a Dropdown-Editor:

This special feature was developed for explorative coding and lists all entries found for that column in a dropdown list to choose from. Also useful for making corrections to existing data.

▪Read Explorative Data Collection example.

Use Dropdown-Editor

Once activated, a little dropdown arrow appears whenever you click into a cell.

The Dropdown-list extends itself the moment information is available inside a Class column:

▪Click into the cell you want to edit.

▪Click on the now available drop-down icon:

▪Select the item you want to enter

Note: You can still use any of the coding modes to regularly log Events. Also entering new information manually is possible: just do not click on the dropdown icon.

Add Time Information

To add time information, to a manually created Event:

▪Enter the required time information manually into the start time and offset cells

OR

▪Drag & drop the current time information:

If you need to correct some of your time codes, dragging the current time value, displayed in the Timer, onto the time value to be changed, does the trick:

To use this functionality, do as follows:

▪Position the multimedia file(s) to the exact position of your choice.

▪Click on the time value, shown in the Timer display within the Observation Ribbon.

▪Hold down your mouse key and move your mouse to the required position in your document.

▪Release your mouse, to overwrite the previous time information.