As soon as you have coded a document segment, a coding stripe appears in the gray area next to the document in the “Document Browser.” The standard color for this symbol is green, but you can choose another color for any code, causing all the code symbols for this code to appear in this color. The column for the coding stripes can be made bigger or smaller by clicking on the separator between the column headers and dragging to the right or left. Double-clicking on the column separator makes the column the optimal size. This optimal view can be impractical, though, if you have too many coded segments. In such cases, the text will be made so small that you won’t be able to read it easily.

You can also choose whether code names should be shown in the coding stripe column. By right-clicking in the gray area of the column, you will call up a window with various setting options. One of those options is to Show code name.

You will always be able to see the code name in the tooltip that appears if you hover your mouse over the coding stripe. The tooltip also shows you the assigned weight, the author of the coded segment, and the date that the segment was coded.

This tooltip always displays the complete code name, even if it is a subcode. This is significant, because the coding stripes in the column only show the name of the codes, rather than including the codes that they are subcodes of. In other words, the code “Interests” is a subcode of “Day-to-Day Issues,” but that is only visible in the tooltip, not in the coding stripe column (see above). In the tooltip, it is shown as “Day-to-Day IssuesInterests.”

If there are many coded segments, it can also be difficult to figure out exactly which codename belongs to which coding stripe. This can be immediately identified when you move the mouse over a coding stripe, at which moment the code name will appear brighter and the code assignment will be displayed.

Often you will want to know which codes are assigned to a specific text or image segment. To do so, select the segment and choose Display assigned codes from the context menu.

This will display a menu in which all assigned codes are listed. Click on an entry in the list to highlight the code in the “Code System.”