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[NEW]

• AI Chat with Coded Segments
• The AI-powered “Chat with Coded Segments” allows users to chat with their coded data directly within MAXQDA’s interface.
• Users can chat with coded segments of a single code in the code system and coded segments in the “Retrieved Segments” window, Smart Coding Tool, and Categorize Survey Data.
• AI Chat History
• This feature allows users to access older chats and review past conversations.
• Users can easily access archived chats in the main chat window to continue their analysis and compare insights.

[IMPROVED]

• AI Assist
• AI Assist features are now available in the Categorize Survey Data workspace.
• Longer documents: AI Assist users can now chat with documents that are twice as long as before and contain up to 100,000 characters.
• Increased character limits for segments: all AI Assist functions summarizing segments can be used with up to 120,000 characters, allowing for more in-depth data analysis.
• Easily access information about AI Assist via the new icon in the Home ribbon tab.
• AI Regions: License admins can select a server region for their MAXQDA licenses.
• Automatic Transcription
• MAXQDA Transcription now supports transcribing bilingual media files, accurately handling audio where both Spanish and English are spoken.
• Mismatching timestamps are now ignored to ensure the creation of a transcript with mismatching timestamps.
• “Retrieved Segments” Window
• Export to Smart Publisher: Users can export their retrieved data via the Smart Publisher directly within the “Retrieved Segments” window, resulting in clearly formatted reports.
• Full-width view for images: Retrieved image data is now fully displayed, enhancing users’ ability to work with images within MAXQDA with greater precision and detail.
• More improvements
• Codebook: Exported codebooks now come with enhanced Word formatting for improved readability and presentation.
• Code Matrix Browser: We’ve added the option to switch columns and rows when exporting code tabulations, enhancing the flexibility and usability of the Code Matrix Browser.
• Image codings: Improved sizing of image codings in “Retrieved Segments” window and Summary Grid.
• Interface: New, modern and easily recognizable icons for the Multimedia Browser, Mixed Methods, and Visual Tools.
• Interface: Several smaller interface adjustments and improvements.

[FIXED]

• Fixes an issue while importing PDF documents with different sizes where the background was displayed grey instead of white.
• Fixes an issue while having the Summary Grid open and creating new coded segments where MAXQDA quit unexpectedly.
• Fixes an issue while choosing the option “Only activated documents” in the Smart Publisher dialogue where the number of segments did not change accordingly.
• Fixes an issue while creating a Codebook where the dialogue could not be closed via the “close” icon.
• Fixes an issue while applying changes to codes where an empty message box was displayed.
• Fixes an issue while switching between worksheets in the QTT workspace where the newly created insights were not saved correctly.
• Fixes an issue while using color highlighters where the color was not remembered in the Memo Editor.
• Fixes an issue while importing a .mex file via Teamwork Import where the target for the document could not be changed via the dropdown menu.
• Fixes an issue while importing transcripts created with Rev where parts of the timestamps were added to the text.
• Fixes an issue while using the local search where the cursor within the search field jumped to the last character.
• Fixes an issue while using the Open Coding Mode where code suggestions did not display all existing codes.
• Fixes an issue while dragging a coded segment into MAXMaps where the document information was not displayed on the map.
• Fixes an issue while creating AI summaries where the selection dialogue did not remember the user settings correctly.
• Fixes an issue while activating documents via the variables “created” and “modified” did not work correctly.
• Fixes an issue while importing documents with unusual font sets where the text was displayed in bold and italic.
• Fixes several minor interface issues.