Interview Report
Overview — Three Views of the Same Data
The Interview Report analyses your interview and focus group responses at three levels of detail, each in its own expandable section:
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Section |
Shows |
Use it to |
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Detail Reports Based on Questions |
Results question by question. |
Find which specific questions produced concerning answers. |
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Summary Reports Based on Traits |
Results rolled up to ISF Traits. |
See the broad picture across the framework. |
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Summary Reports Based on Attributes |
Results rolled up to ISF Attributes. |
Locate the specific attributes driving a trait's score. |
Open it from Reports → Interview Report. Needs Reports read access.
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PRO TIP Read them in the order Traits → Attributes → Questions. Start broad to find where the problem is, narrow to find which attribute, then drill into the questions for the evidence. |
Set Point Controls
Each section has High and Low set points that flag scores above and below your chosen thresholds. Both must be 0 or greater, and the section's export is disabled while a value is invalid.
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HEADS UP Set points are not saved with the activity, so two people running the report with different values see differently flagged results. Agree them across the team. |
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PRO TIP Use the same high and low values here as on the Survey Report. Comparing a survey flagged at one threshold with interviews flagged at another produces apparent differences that are entirely artefacts of your settings. |
Finding a Question
The Detail Reports Based on Questions section has a search box — "Search questions (e.g. opening, closing)" — filtering the question list.
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PRO TIP Use it when you already know what you are looking for. Once an interview has flagged a concern about a specific subject, searching for that question is faster than scrolling. |
Exporting
Each of the three sections has its own Download Excel button, exporting that section's table.
The report also has an Export PDF button, producing a formatted PDF of the analysis. The dialog offers include themes, ratings, demographics, and additional traits; colour output; Full or Summary detail; a None / Draft / Confidential watermark; and an optional password.
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GOOD TO KNOW The three Excel exports are separate — exporting the trait summary does not include question detail. The PDF covers the report as a whole. |
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PRO TIP For a report pack: PDF at Summary detail for the front of the pack, and all three Excel exports behind it. The PDF is what people read; the workbooks are what you turn to when someone challenges a figure in the meeting. |
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PRO TIP Turn Include additional traits on when the report is going to anyone reviewing framework coverage. Additional Traits are where interviewers recorded findings the question set did not ask about, and they are invisible in a summary that omits them. |
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HEADS UP A section's Download Excel is disabled while its set points are invalid. If the button will not respond, check the High and Low values in that section rather than the others. |
When There Is Nothing to Report
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Message |
What it means |
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No Results available |
The report as a whole returned nothing. |
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No Results available for this activity |
Shown within a section that has no data. |
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HEADS UP A section can be empty while others have data. Trait and attribute summaries depend on questions being classified against the ISF — if those sections are empty but the question detail is not, the questions lack classification, which is a question-pool matter for an administrator. |
What Feeds This Report
· The rating you gave each answer.
· The themes you tagged.
· Any Additional Traits you recorded on an interview answer.
· The demographic fields — department, level, site, employment type.
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HEADS UP Interviews with blank demographic fields contribute to totals but appear in no breakdown. It cannot be fixed retrospectively without reopening every response. |
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PRO TIP The report is only as good as the response records behind it. An interview written up as "some concerns raised" with no rating and no themes is invisible here. |
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GOOD TO KNOW Focus group responses feed this report alongside interviews. Both are analysed together. |
Common Problems
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What you see |
What it means |
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Reports group missing from the activity |
You have no Reports read access. |
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No Results available |
No interview or focus group responses recorded yet. |
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Trait or attribute section empty, questions populated |
The questions are not classified against the ISF. Ask an administrator. |
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Download Excel disabled |
That section's High or Low set point is invalid. |
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Your figures differ from a colleague's |
Different set points. Agree and record them. |
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No departmental or site breakdown |
Demographic fields were left blank on the responses. |
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An interview is missing from the report |
Its response has not been submitted. |
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Additional Traits missing from the PDF |
The Include additional traits option was not ticked. |
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Interview and survey results look inconsistent |
Check you used the same set points on both reports. |





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