ATLAS.ti 23

23.2.1 (build 4325)

Release date: 2023-07-17

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some word documents would import incompletely
• Fixed a crash when dragging a code from a quotation to another in the margin
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when merging quotations that are linked with one another
• Fixed issues exporting projects with duplicate contents
• Fixed issues with some documents when using AI Summaries
• Copying quotation content without reference string now also works in networks

23.2.0 (build 4305)

Release date: 2023-06-23

New and Improved

• AI Summaries powered by OpenAI
  Let AI automatically summarize your documents and coded quotations – get the gist in seconds instead of sifting through mountains of data, so you can concentrate on what's important. AI Summaries seamlessly integrate into memos, enabling versatile linking, conversion into documents, and coding.
• Link Memos to (Almost) Everything
  ATLAS.ti has pioneered interconnected data in the QDA world. More than a decade ago, we introduced Network Views, visualizing quotation-quotation hyperlinks and enabling complex code systems that go far beyond a simple codebook as a list of codes.
  Today, we introduce more powerful linking of Memos than ever before. You can now link Memos to any combination of Documents, Codes, Quotations, other Memos, Groups – even Networks!
  And we've made it easier than ever before to create and link a Memo when you want to start writing about any entity. Simply hover over it in the navigator on the left side of the main window, click the link icon that appears, and choose "New Memo".
  Linking existing memos is as easy as dragging the memo onto the entity you want to link it with – or vice versa.
• Improved Networks
  While we were at it, we updated the color of links displayed in networks, and removed some differences between the Windows and Mac versions. We also overhauled adding "neighbors" (linked entities) to networks. Right-click any node in a network view and choose "Import Neighbors".
• More Reliable AI Coding
  During the ongoing beta phase of AI Coding, we have been working on improving reliability and robustness of AI Coding. If you got a lot of errors before, we encourage you to try again!
• Copy Quotation Text Only
  Users asked to be able to copy quotation content without the reference and link. This is now possible: Simply hold Alt/Option while copying.

Bug Fixes

• AI coding will not show "Coding with category is not possible" error anymore
• Fixed a crash when hitting cmd+z during drag and drop
• Other stability improvements

23.1.1 (build 4239)

Release date: 2023-05-09
Release date: 2023-05-09

Note: We have temporarily disabled Twitter import functionality due to API and terms changes by Twitter. Until this is resolved, please use our social media comments import feature to import tweets.

New and Improved

• Increased free cloud storage for projects to 500 MB
• Reference manager import now finds more source files than before

Bug Fixes

• Improved reliability and error handling in AI Coding
• Fixed an issue uploading project to the cloud when they contained the same PDF document twice
• Fixed export of rotated Code Co-Occurrence table
• Multiple stability improvements
• Multiple minor UI fixes and improvements in AI Coding and elsewhere

23.1.0 (build 4207)

Release date: 2023-03-27
Release date: 2023-03-28

New and Improved

• AI Coding (Beta) Powered by OpenAI
  Say goodbye to endless manual coding and hello to AI-driven assistance on autopilot fueled by the cutting-edge GPT model. With our OpenAI-powered software, you can complete your research projects 10X faster. Fully automated code proposals take the grunt work out of your hands, so you can focus on refinement and analysis for optimized scientific accuracy.

Bug Fixes

• Updated import of social media comments to deal with changed export format
• Fixed an issue with code folders when merging projects
• Prevented a crash in the smart code/smart group editor
• Exporting a smart memo group now works properly
• Fixed a crash when opening Concepts on macOS 10.15
• Adding group members to a network doesn't crash the app anymore
• Fixed a crash that could occur when displaying certain co-occurrence results
• Repaired QDC codebook import
• Prevented a crash that could occur when exporting a report of a code folder linked to multiple memos

23.0.1 (build 4141)

Release date: 2023-01-31
Release date: 2023-02-01

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue importing projects from older versions of ATLAS.ti.
• Fixed an issue that could occur when uploading certain projects to the cloud.
• Improved reliability of license checking.
• Improved some user interface texts.
• Prevented a crash that could occur during text search.
• Fixed a crash on macOS 10.15 "Catalina" when using the co-occurrence or concepts tools.

23.0.0 (build 4121)

Release date: 2023-01-18
Release date: 2023-01-18

New and Improved

• Upload and Share Projects in the Cloud (Beta)
  You can now upload your projects to the ATLAS.ti cloud. Share your projects with collaborators, work from multiple computers, or just use it as a backup. In the project list, simply click the three dots and choose "Upload".
  Every user gets 100 MB of free storage during the beta period, enough for thousands of text documents.
• Co-Occurrence Cluster Analysis
  The co-occurrence tools have gained a new visualization mode, the force-directed graph. This fully interactive tool lets you easily visualize clusters of co-occurrence, play around with your data, and export beautiful images illustrating your data.
  As with all our visualizations, it is not just a picture, but fully integrated: It always shows the current data, and tasks like changing the color of a code are just a right-click away.
  While we were at it, we also cleaned up the co-occurrence analysis tools a little. The layout is cleaner, and we have removed the co-occurrence explorer, and integrated its functionality here.
• New Co-Occurrence Result Display
  ATLAS.ti now displays co-occurrences in a much more intuitive way. We have replaced the two lists of quotations with one list that shows overlaps just like you know from the margin in documents. This not only makes it much easier to understand, but also reduced the need to go to the document to view the quotations in context (which you can still do with a single click, of course).
• New Analysis Context Menu
  Because you can do so much, the context menu on codes, documents and groups had become quite long. We have reordered it and put all analysis and text mining functionality into the Analysis submenu.
  And while we were at it, we added some new functionality to make it easier to explore your codings. You can now jump right into the co-occurrence and code-document analysis tools from anywhere in the app. Just right-click a code or codes — or code groups — and you will find multiple options in the new Analysis submenu:
• Show Co-Occurrences Between Codes (only available when you have multiple codes selected) will open the co-occurrence analysis tool and pre-select the codes you had selected for both columns and rows. This lets you easily identify how these codes co-occur with one another. ATLAS.ti automatically removes rows and columns that show zero co-occurrences.
• Show Co-Occurrences will show all codes that co-occur with the selected code or codes (or code groups).
• Code-Document analysis works on documents (and document groups) as well as on codes (and code groups). Clicking it will open the code-document analysis tool. If you invoked the tool on codes, it will automatically show all documents that the codes are coding in. If you invoked it on documents, it will show all the codes coding in the selected documents. Empty rows and columns will be automatically removed.
• Full Text Search, Sentiment Analysis, and Named Entity Recognition in Coded Quotations
  We have added a new scope to our powerful text search and autocoding tools. You can now restrict your search to look only in quotations coded with certain codes or code groups. Of course, lexemization (finding inflected forms) and synonyms work as expected. You can also quickly access these features from the Analysis context menu mentioned above.
• TreeMap view for documents
  The document manager has gained a fully interactive TreeMap visualization. This lets you easily see and compare the number of codings in each document, and of course export it as an image to showcase your data.
• TreeMap view for Word Frequencies
  We have also added the TreeMap to the word frequencies tool, so you can now switch between list, word cloud, and tree map view modes.

Bug Fixes

As with any major release, there have been many bug fixes and other minor improvements and speedups. Too many to list them all here.

22.2.3 (build 3738)

Release date: 2022-11-17

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to print text documents on macOS 13 Ventura.

22.2.2 (build 3737)

Release date: 2022-10-14

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue when exchanging projects between Windows and Mac versions of ATLAS.ti.
• Improved transcript timestamp import reliability.
• Fixed a crash in analysis tables.
• Fixed a selection issue in the code cooccurrence table.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented opinion mining from creating codings.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during Twitter authentication.
• Multiple other minor fixes and improvements.

22.2.1 (build 3721)

Release date: 2022-09-23

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare project export issue

22.2.0 (build 3718)

Release date: 2022-09-16
Release date: 2022-09-19

New and Improved

• Opinion Mining
  A new natural language processing feature that combines concept and sentiment analysis, giving you a quick overview over your texts, and allows you to quickly code these segments with the proposed codes. As for all machine learning features, this works completely offline, so your data stays secure on your computer. It is available in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
• Improved transcript Import with automatic speaker coding
  Wa have made importing transcripts much easier, and added compatibility for virtually any transcription service in the world. For VTT files containing speaker information, ATLAS.ti now automatically codes the transcript by speaker.
• Referencing Quotations
  We have improved referencing quotations to help you document your work.
  Inserting quotations into memos is now easier than ever. Just hover the mouse over the paragraph numbers and click the button that appears. Or drag the quotation into the memo from anywhere in ATLAS.ti. Or copy a quotation and paste it into the memo. Also works with multiple quotations at once, of course.
  When inserting quotations, the full text content is now inserted along with a clickable link that takes you right to the quotation in-context.
  This works not only for memos, documents, and comments, but it works even outside ATLAS.ti! Copy and paste a quotation to your favorite word processor, text editor, or messaging app, and you will get a clickable link that opens the quotation in ATLAS.ti. Great for collaborating on a project!
• Code TreeMap
  The code manager has gained a new TreeMap view mode. This lets you see your most-used codes at a glance, and also provides a nice visual to spice up your reports. And of course, this is not just a pretty picture: The TreeMap is fully interactive, and you can do basically everything there you can also do in the other view modes. Try right-clicking! (Requires macOS 11.0 or newer)
• French Interface
  ATLAS.ti is now also available in French. Bienvenue!
• Automated spell checking
  You can now enable automatic spell checking and correction in documents, memos, and comments.
• Easier access to start screen
  In the main menu, you can now open the start screen via Project -> Start Screen, without having to close your current project.
• Improved performance for large projects
  Improved coding performance by up to 200x in projects with tens of thousands of codings, and reduced RAM usage when importing projects with lots of large PDFs.

Bug Fixes

• Delete key now works properly in code cloud.
• Fixed printing issues in memos.
• Improved display of text selection handles at paragraph boundaries.
• Synchronized scrolling mode in transcripts now properly positions multimedia playhead when moving the text cursor.
• Fixed a crash when attempting to split codes that are contained in a folder.
• Importing the same survey twice does not create duplicate code folders anymore.
• Fixed a crash when attempting to import an empty survey.

22.1.0 (build 3475)

Release date: 2022-06-03
Release date: 2022-06-09

New and Improved
- When adding Word documents with comments, the comments are now imported as quotations.
- When adding PDF documents with annotations, quotations are now created for each annotation. This is also available when importing reference manager data.
- You can now use individual documents as global filters, which opens up much more refined analysis options in tools like the cooccurrence table, concept analysis, etc.
- New machine learning models for Dutch and French, enabling lemmatized search with synonyms, concept analysis, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis in these languages.
- ATLAS.ti can now import new file types:
- Ebooks (.mobi)
- Excel (.xls and .xlsx) and Libre Office Calc (.ods) spreadsheets
- Powerpoint (.ppt and .pptx) and Libre Office Impress (.odp) presentations
- Visio (.vsd and .vsdx) and Libre Office Draw (.odg) documents
- Improved quality of machine learning features, such as concept analysis and named entity recognition.
- Improved handling of all-uppercase abbreviations in named entity recognition.
- We've done a little spring cleaning in the main window and toolbar.
- Many small usability improvements, including new context menu options for working with the code hierarchy.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed a rare issue where the app would not start
- Various other stability improvements

22.0.2 (build 3332)

Release date: 2022-03-14
Release date: 2022-03-29

New and Improved
- Added a new language model for Russian. This enables semi-automated Machine Learning-based analysis of Russian-language texts. We hope this helps you be a force for peace and truth in these times.
- Sentiment analysis now available for Russian texts
- Named entity recognition now available for Russian texts
- Concept extraction now available for Russian texts
- Lemmatization for text searches now available for Russian texts
- Synonyms in text searches now available for Russian texts
- In the concepts tool, it is now possible to code with either the concept and/or the matched phrase
- Concepts can now be excluded via right-click
- Smaller improvements, such as:
- Right-clicking on a code folder now allows to create a code in that folder
- Right-clicking on a code in a quotation list has a new option to open the code in the code manager
- Exported stop lists and go lists are now sorted alphabetically
- And many more…

Bug Fixes
- Sankey diagram now renders uncolored codes properly again
- Bar charts in document and code manager now respect global filter
- Improved license check reliability
- Many more minor bug fixes and stability improvements

22.0.1 (build 3294)

Release date: 2022-02-17
Release date: 2022-02-17

• Greatly improved performance when importing and working with large projects
• Fixed an issue where some ATLAS.ti 9 projects could not be imported
• Fixed an issue where the manual was not showing up via the help menu
• Improved compatibility when importing codebooks from spreadsheets
• Multiple UI improvements
• Multiple stability improvements and other bug fixes

22.0.0 (build 3222)

Release date: 2021-12-13
Release date: 2021-12-13

• Analyze social network comments
• Let ATLAS.ti find relevant concepts for you and auto code them
• Organize your codes in folders, categories and subcodes
• New bar charts in managers and analysis tables provide a quick overview of your data
• Improved survey import now supports many more popular services' formats and can be customized to fit
• Improved reference manager import including BibTeX support
• Improved machine learning models for text search and analysis
• Text search now supports synonyms for more languages
• A fresh look and overhauled context menus make ATLAS.ti nicer and easier to use and more powerful
• App updates are now much smaller