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@caledavis caledavis released this 22 Jun 18:22
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Magnolia 1.5.0

The headline change: your project files are now fully self-contained, and Magnolia interoperates with Atlas.ti and MAXQDA far more faithfully.

New

  • Self-contained projects — every file you import (documents, PDFs, images, audio, video) is stored inside the .qdpx itself, as it should be. Magnolia no longer keeps imported media in temporary files on your computer, so a project opens with all its content intact on any machine, and an imported file is written into the project the moment you add it.
  • Repair a project that's missing its files — open a project whose embedded files aren't actually stored in it (for example, one saved by an older version) and Magnolia lists the affected documents and lets you re-import each one, keeping its existing codes.
  • Memos work with other QDA software — memos are saved in the shared REFI-QDA format, so Magnolia's memos appear when a project is opened in Atlas.ti or MAXQDA, and memos made in those tools appear in Magnolia.
  • Scope queries to surveys — the Document Selector's Type filter now has a Survey option, so a query can be limited to survey sources.
  • Text in spatial queries — Overlapping, Inside, Outside, Before, and Followed by now accept text terms as inputs, so you can find a word inside a particular phrase or inside a coded passage (documents and surveys).

Changed

  • The toolbar shows the open project's name — the Magnolia wordmark is now the app icon followed by the current project's name; click the name to open Project Info.
  • "Content Memo" is now "Selection Memo" throughout, to better describe a memo attached to a selection.

Fixed

  • Imported files can no longer be silently lost — Magnolia writes an imported file's content into the project when you save and refuses to save in a way that would drop it; re-opening restores media from the project file rather than from temporary copies the system can clear.
  • Exports open in Atlas.ti, and image area-codings show in MAXQDA — image coding coordinates are now written as whole numbers, as the interchange format requires.
  • Atlas.ti import fixes — PDF codes made in Atlas.ti no longer disappear on import, and documents whose stored filename differs from Magnolia's own naming now display and save correctly.

Full changelog: https://github.com/caledavis/Magnolia/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

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