How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.

Changing the activations in the “Document System” immediately changes your results.

It is often helpful for this function to include the subcodes, so that all combinations of intersections between each code (and its subcodes) are automatically included. The easiest way to include the subcodes is to click on the symbol at the bottom of the screen.

Example:

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.
4. Set the minimum number of codes that must intersect in Window C.

You can see in the “Results” window how many retrieved segments would be found based on intersections.

Example:

If Codes 1, 2, 3, and 4 are entered in Window A, and you have entered in Window C that at least three intersections are required, the first two examples to the right would not be called up. The first doesn’t have any intersections, and the second only has two intersecting codes. The third has the required three intersection codes, though, so it would be listed in the “Retrieved Segments” window.

Only the section of the coded segments that is coded with all three codes is displayed.

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.

The “Overlapping” function works just like the “Intersection” function, except that the results are displayed differently. The results of “Overlapping” include the entirety of each coded segment that overlaps, rather than just showing the section that is coded with both codes.

As with the “Intersection” function, it is often helpful to include subcodes in the retrievals. Then all combinations of subcodes are tested for overlap.

Example:

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.

Example:        

If codes 1 and 2 are in Window A, the first two examples on the right would be included in the retrieval, because they don’t overlap each other. The fact that codes 2 and 3 overlap makes no difference, because code 3 is not in Window A. The third example would not be included in the retrieval because codes 1 and 2 intersect.

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.
4. Select the relevant code in Window B. The fastest way to do this is to drag it with the mouse from the "Code System" into Window B.

Example:

Code 1 is the selected code (Window B). Code 2 and 3 are the codes in Window A. When either Code 2 or Code 3 intersects with Code 1, Code 1 is not listed. This is the case in the second and third examples on the right. Only the first example shows an instance of Code 1 that isn’t intersected by Code 2 or Code 3. It would be listed in the “Retrieved Segments” window.

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.
4. Select the relevant code in Window B. The fastest way to do this is to drag it with the mouse from the "Code System" into Window B.

Example:

This function would be helpful if you were looking for text segments in which people talk about what they consider possible, but don’t want to include those instances that are in the context of these peoples’ wishes.

Code 1 is in Window A, and Code 2 is in Window B. This means you are looking for instances of Code 1 that are completely outside of Code 2. In the example on the right, only the third example would be called up. In the first example, Code 1 isn’t even there, and in the second, Code 1 is not completely outside of Code 2.

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.
4. Select the relevant code in Window B. The fastest way to do this is to drag it with the mouse from the "Code System" into Window B.

Example:

Let’s say you are interested in the things people said about criteria for success, but only in the context of what they consider feasible. You could use this function, putting the “criteria for success” code in Window A and the “considered feasible” code in Window B.

In the examples on the right, only the first shows a case where Code 1 (Window A) is found completely inside Code 2 (Window B). That is not the case in the second or the third examples.

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.
4. Select the relevant code in Window B. The fastest way to do this is to drag it with the mouse from the "Code System" into Window B.
5. Enter a maximum allowed number of paragraphs between the codes in Window C. If zero is entered as a number, B must begin in the same paragraph as A.

You can define what results should be generated as result of this function: The segments of the code in Window A which are within distance X before Window B's code, the coded segments of Window B's code, or both. The last option, however, will rarely be necessary.

Example:

In the example on the right, we are looking for Code 1 (Window B) following Code 2 (Window A) within two paragraphs.

Code 1 appears four times in the example, but only the third instance would be included in the results, because it follows an instance of Code 2 within two paragraphs.

How it works:

1. Activate the relevant documents in the "Document System".
2. Go to Analysis > Complex Coding Query and select this function.
3. Activate the required codes in the "Code System" and then click on All activated codes in Window A.
4. Select the relevant code in Window B. The fastest way to do this is to drag it with the mouse from the "Code System" into Window B.
5. Enter a maximum allowed number of paragraphs between the codes in Window C. If zero is entered as a number, B must begin in the same paragraph as A.

You can define what results should be generated as result of this function: The segments of the code in Window A which are within distance X before Window B's code, the coded segments of Window B's code, or both. The last option, however, will rarely be necessary.

Example:

We are looking for places where Code 2 (Window A) and Code 1 (Window B) are found within two paragraphs of each other (Window C).

Code 1 is found four times in the screenshot, but only the second and third instances are within two paragraphs of Code 2.

We chose to view the Window B code in the Retrieved Segments, but we could have theoretically chosen to list the Window A code or even both of them.