Release 24.2 (February 12th, 2024)

The AI-powered “MAXQDA Transcription” feature is now seamlessly integrated in MAXQDA so users can automatically transcribe the recording directly within your MAXQDA project.
MAXQDA now offers the same 45 transcription languages available on the “MAXQDA Transcription” web app within our desktop software while ensuring the highest-quality transcripts. In just a few minutes after uploading your recordings to “MAXQDA Transcription”, you’ll receive the complete transcript. Optionally, you can create custom glossaries to ensure uncommon terms, jargon, or specialized terminology are transcribed correctly.
“MAXQDA Transcription” labels each speaker’s contribution separately and fully GDPR-compliant.

When printing coded PDF documents, users are now able to visualize coded image segments. Image codes appear as frames.
We’ve said goodbye to the image code’s background coloring. Now, image segments in PDF documents are exclusively coded with a border in the designated color, eliminating the colored background to improve the clarity of coded images.
Some PDFs can produce unnecessary double spaces at the end of each line of text. MAXQDA now automatically recognizes and removes these spaces when users are retrieving text from coded segments.

New memo type for the root of the code system to store crucial information or coding rules.
The “summary” section of the memo can now be extended, which makes it easier to read lenghty summaries within Code or Document memos.
The project memo is now displayed in the Memo Manager, along with all other memos.

The color-coding icons have been consolidated into a single drop-down menu, now operating like the text marker feature found in MAXQDA memos and other word-processing applications.
The Text Alignment icons within the Edit Toolbar have also been consolidated into a unified drop-down menu, a design choice to optimize space use and maintain a clean, uncluttered interface.
When working on a manual transcript, MAXQDA now consistently stores copies of the transcripts in the Temp folder and keeps them available for multiple days. This functionality allows users to retrieve previous versions of transcripts in case of accidental edits or deletions.

The avatar area, located in the top right corner of the interface, has undergone a fresh styling, enhancing its visibility. Additionally, we’ve introduced a new notification icon to promptly alert users when their media has been successfully transcribed with “MAXQDA Transcription”.
We’ve improved several UI elements, such as boosting the contrast of scroll bars, adding visible dividers to table columns and refining the styling of selected cells in tables.
Mac users are now able to use “Fullscreen” mode again.
If users hover over the project name in the main title bar, a new tooltip will appear, displaying the full path to where the project is stored on the computer.
Icons in the Document System have a smarter drop-down menu that opens automatically on hover.

Code system: During code searches in the Code System, users now have the option to deactivate the filtering of the code system by search hits and display search hits within the entire code system.
Paraphrases & Comments: The paraphrase and comment text fields are now more responsive. A real-time character count has been added so users can keep track of the remaining characters before hitting the text limit.
Paraphrases: Text segments that are already paraphrased are now displayed with an orange background to match the orange paraphrase icon better and make the feature more accessible to new users.
AI Assist: The dialogue displaying generated code suggestions now offers the flexibility to independently expand or collapse each section corresponding to a specific code type. This enhancement enables users to concentrate on a singular type of code suggestion (thematic vs. interpretative), streamlining users focus compared to the previous format.
Performance: Improved performance when starting MAXQDA.
Performance: Improved performance when opening a worksheet in the QTT workspace.
Interface: Severall smaller interface adjustmens and improvements.

Fixes an issue while coding with a new code in a large project file where the coding process was slow.
Fixes an issue while opening the search results for a word in the word cloud that has been created from categorize survey data where the search result was not listed.
Fixes an issue while saving a project with MAXQDA 24 as a .mx22 file where directly opening the file with MAXQDA 24 again failed.
Fixes an issue while staying logged in to the MAXQDA user account where holders of student licenses had to log in again multiple times.
Fixes an issue while playing media files in the Multimedia Browser where manually entering a time in the spinbox did not work properly.
Fixes an issue while exporting coded segments from the retrieved segments window where the code and document names were not properly exported when the retrieved segments window was closed.
Fixes an issue while moving the cursor out of a selection in a video file where the video image was not updated.
Fixes an issue while navigating search hits with keyboard shortcuts. Users can now use “Enter” or “Shift+Enter” to jump to the next or previous search hit.
Fixes an issue while creating a longer code summary in a code memo where scrolling was not possible.
Fixes an issue with table designs in Stats selection dialogues.

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