Export Voting Results; Introduction; Results Export File Layout; Identification - Bosch DCN Manual

External Interface Manual
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Table 1: Voting kind numbering
1 Parliamentary vote
2 For/Against vote
3 Audience Response vote
4 Rating vote
5 Multiple Choice vote
6 Opinion Poll vote
Second line:
answer legend<SEP>answer text<SEP>answer correct<EOL>
where:

answer legend

answer text
answer correct
Note: This line is repeated for the number of answers.
6.3

Export voting results

6.3.1

Introduction

In DCN Voting applications, it is possible to automatically save the final voting results for a single voting
round. This section specifies the layout of such an export file.
6.3.2

Results export file layout

The results export file is composed of the following lines of data (in this order):

identification

answer legend
date and time
total results
individual results
6.3.2.1. Identification
DCN RESULT 5.0<SEP>voting number<SEP>voting name<SEP>voting subject<SEP>voting
kind<SEP>number of answers<EOL>
where:
DCN RESULT x.0
voting number
voting name
voting subject
voting kind
number of answers
6.3.2.2. Answer legend
This line is repeated 'number of answers' times:
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vote. This is a required entry. There is no default.
Indicates a separator character.
Indicates an end of line (carriage return (0x0D) and newline
character(0x0A)).
Table 2: Voting menu settings
1 No, Yes
2 No, Abstain, Yes
3 For, Against
4 --, -, 0, +, ++
5 1, 2, 3, ...
6 A, B, C, ...
7 ..., C, B, A
Legend text for this answer (10 characters maximum).
Descriptive text for this answer (66 characters maximum).
In a multiple choice vote, this setting indicates whether the
answer is correct (TRUE) or incorrect (FALSE).
st
This section is the 1 line in the file.
This section consists of lines repeated for each possible answer
in this vote (see table 1, section 6.2.2 ).
This section contains the date and time the voting was stopped.
This section consists of a part with a fixed number of lines with
the totals and a part consisting of lines repeated for each
possible answer in this vote (see table 1, section 6.2.2 ). I.e.
totals per answer.
This section is conditional and consists of a line for each
delegate.
Indicates the type of file and the version of DCN that produced
it. In this file type indication, the letter 'x' represents the major
version number of the DCN software (Version 5.0 shown in the
line above).
A number in the range 1-9999.
The name of the vote.
The voting subject text.
A number in the range 1-7 that specifies the type of vote: See
table 1 for explanation.
The number of possible answer options in this vote.
Table 3: Interim results settings
0 None
1 Total
2 Total + Individual
3 Total on PC only
4 Total + Individual on PC only
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