Is there a place in the forums to report bugs?

I ran the "Assign documents to specified codes randomly function" a little while ago and I just recently realized that it didn't allocation citations into groups randomly. Rather, it created 10 groups and alphabetically allocated the citations to the various groups by author name. Which is really unfortunate because my team didn't realize (We would sort citations by Title when screening) until just now.

I tried to replicate this bug but was unable to do so. I re-randomly assigned documents into groups and it worked properly today.  

Thanks for the reply Jeff.

I did not only select the items on a particular page. I had created a unique code for 5409 citations. I then selected this code for the randomization process. I utlized the search function to varify that the original 5409 citations were found in the 10 groups.

(Group 1 OR Group 2 OR Group 3... OR Group 10) = 5409 original citations.

There is some randomization in the groups but there is obviously some order to the groups that are not accountable to chance.

Here are a list of some examples:

1. Group 5: Author names A-H

2. Group 6: Author names A- L

3. Group 7: Author names A-R

4. Group 8: Author names E-R

5. Group 9: Author names L-Z

6. Group 10: Author names N-Z

The likelihold that this many groups do not have the full spectrum of author names is extrememly unlikely given a sample of 5409 citations.

Not sure what else I can add here. It appears as the randomization failed in groups >5.

Cheers

Hi Jeff,

That is the second randomized group I created when I tried to replicate the bug. As you noted, it is well randomized.

The initial not-so random groups are under the codeset "Citations for Screening (Start Here)" and under the parent code "April 30 Search Results."

Cheers,

Wil

Good afternoon Jeff,

Just wondering if you've made any progress on this. Also, what do you think about my suggestion for a bug report forum group?

I came across another bug in which the "Refresh Search List" function doesn't work. I.e. If I update codes on documents and rerun the searches the hit counts don't update. Rather, I have to manually redo the searches (and use the combine tool again)after the documents have been coded to get them to show up in the search results.

Cheers,

Wil