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hsmartin - 11/22/2022

Hello,

We recently encountered a new issue in which we received the error with the message: "This command 'format' is obsolete and will be ignored." I tried running the session again, and I received the same issue (with error code 26 for script element "a_mainbatch.iqx.data.format"). Any ideas on how we can fix this? It appears as though the participant's data were not saved or uploaded from their session on 11/21/22.

Thanks so much, and please let me know what other information I can provide that would be helpful!

Best,
Heather

It's not an error, but a warning. The difference between errors and warnings is that warnings are not critical, i.e. the script(s) will still run and complete just fine.

As for the specific warning, it concerns the /format attribute in <data>, which in the olden days of Inquisit 4 and below allowed you to choose between different output formats (tab-delimited, fixed width, comma delimited, etc.).

https://www.millisecond.com/support/docs/v4/html/language/attributes/format.htm

This is no longer supported and has not been supported for quite a while; data files are always tab-delimited.

To get rid of the warnings, remove any /format attributes from the <data> elements in your scripts.

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Dave - 11/22/2022

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hsmartin - 11/22/2022

Hello,

We recently encountered a new issue in which we received the error with the message: "This command 'format' is obsolete and will be ignored." I tried running the session again, and I received the same issue (with error code 26 for script element "a_mainbatch.iqx.data.format"). Any ideas on how we can fix this? It appears as though the participant's data were not saved or uploaded from their session on 11/21/22.

Thanks so much, and please let me know what other information I can provide that would be helpful!

Best,
Heather

It's not an error, but a warning. The difference between errors and warnings is that warnings are not critical, i.e. the script(s) will still run and complete just fine.

As for the specific warning, it concerns the /format attribute in <data>, which in the olden days of Inquisit 4 and below allowed you to choose between different output formats (tab-delimited, fixed width, comma delimited, etc.).

https://www.millisecond.com/support/docs/v4/html/language/attributes/format.htm

This is no longer supported and has not been supported for quite a while; data files are always tab-delimited.

To get rid of the warnings, remove any /format attributes from the <data> elements in your scripts.

This is so incredibly helpful! Thank you so much.