Title: NarraFirma
Author: cfkurtz
Published: <strong>October 24, 2015</strong>
Last modified: July 28, 2025

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# NarraFirma

 By [cfkurtz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfkurtz/)

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## Description

NarraFirma is companion software to the textbook [Working with Stories in Your Community Or Organization: Participatory Narrative Inquiry](http://www.workingwithstories.org).

Participatory narrative inquiry is an approach in which groups of people participate
in gathering and working with raw stories of personal experience in order to make
sense of complex patterns for better decision making. PNI focuses on the profound
consideration of values, beliefs, feelings, and perspectives through the recounting
and interpretation of lived experience.

#### What is NarraFirma?

 * It’s a checklist. NarraFirma provides practical guidance as you work, with questions
   for you to answer, recommendations based on the conditions you describe, activities
   that help you make decisions, and just-in-time advice.
 * It’s a journal. NarraFirma helps you keep careful records about what happened
   in your project, and it gives you places to reflect on what happened. This reminds
   you to keep learning as you work, and it helps you to document your project for
   future reference.
 * It’s a kiosk. NarraFirma helps you collect stories, on-line and/or off-line, 
   based on question forms you design (with sample questions you can copy). Because
   story collection is integrated, there is no need to export or import data.
 * It’s a workstation. NarraFirma helps you explore and interpret patterns in your
   data (stories and answers to questions about stories), creating annotated visualizations
   you can use to make sense of the stories you collected.

#### Why choose NarraFirma?

 * It’s portable. You can install NarraFirma anywhere, as a WordPress plugin or 
   a Node.js web application. Web hosting is inexpensive, popular, and well supported.
   You can also install NarraFirma on your local computer and use it off-line. (
   Whichever installation method you choose, we strongly suggest that you set up
   SSL security on your web site before collecting or entering confidential or important
   information. Many hosting providers can help you with this task.)
 * It’s a team player. With NarraFirma your team can work on projects together in
   real time without having to hand files back and forth. You can plan your project,
   collect stories, discover patterns, and reflect on what you’ve learned – together.
 * It’s an open book. NarraFirma is open source software. So if you have a question
   about how something works, you can just look at the source code to find out. 
   If you need the software to do something it can’t do, you can add new functionality
   yourself or ask someone else to add it.
 * It works in the real world. One NarraFirma installation supports multiple projects,
   forms, data sets, and reports. Why? Because real-life story projects are rarely
   simple or predictable. So go ahead and make a mess. NarraFirma is ready for it.

### Donations

We have spent a lot of time developing NarraFirma. We appreciate donations, and 
will use them to keep working on it. You can donate at [PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DGVVDT2D49QA8).

### Need some help?

I offer training in the use of NarraFirma and consulting for PNI projects. If you
are interested, check out my web site at [cfkurtz.com](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/narrafirma/cfkurtz.com?output_format=md),
or send me a note at cfkurtz at cfkurtz dot com.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * This is the main page of NarraFirma. The sections of the software (and the phases
   of PNI) are shown in the diagram. Clicking on any of these buttons leads to that
   section.
 * [[
 * This the main page for the NarraFirma planning section. Links to all the pages
   in that section are listed. You can enter reminders for any page; they show up
   on this page.
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is describing the groups of people who will be participating
   in their project. Describing your groups helps you think about how you should
   collect stories and what you should do with them.
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is doing a little sensemaking exercise based on some
   stories they told about what might happen when they do the project. Thinking 
   in stories during project planning helps to make better decisions about how to
   carry out the project.
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is deciding how they will collect stories. They are 
   looking at recommendations the software is giving them based on the answers they
   gave to the questions about their participant groups (see screenshot 3).
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is creating questions they will ask people about their
   stories.
 * [[
 * Here is the NarraFirma survey form participants see when they tell their stories(
   or NarraFirma users see when they enter the stories they collected off-line).
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is looking at stories as they come in to the collection.
   They are looking here only at stories told by older people who said the person
   in their story wanted to be heard.
 * [[
 * Here the user is looking at patterns in the data (answers to questions) collected.
   The selected row of the table of patterns (at the top) shows that the questions“
   How do you feel about this story” and “What is your age” are being compared, 
   creating a contingency (bubble) graph. The user has written an observation about
   that pattern (“People under 35 more positive”) and two interpretations of what
   that pattern might mean (“More weight on older shoulders” versus “Younger people
   have lots of energy”). The user has selected some stories on the graph to read;
   the stories appear in the table at the bottom of the image.
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is designing a plan for a sensemaking session, where
   people will work with the collected stories and patterns to make sense of the
   topic being explored.
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is ansewring questions about the outcomes of the project
   for each participant group. Those outcomes will determine recommendations for
   interventions.
 * [[
 * Here the NarraFirma user is reflecting on the entire project, to learn from it
   and to keep good records for the future.

## Installation

To install NarraFirma:

 1. Download the NarraFirma plugin (in zip format) from WordPress.org or the [NarraFirma web site](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/narrafirma/narrafirma.com?output_format=md).
 2. In your WordPress dashboard, click on “Plugins,” then click “Add New.”
 3. In the “Add Plugins” page, click “Upload Plugin.”
 4. Click “Browse,” then choose the zip file you downloaded.
 5. Click “Install Now.”
 6. Click “Activate.”
 7. You should see a new “NarraFirma” menu item in your dashboard menu. Click it.
 8. In the screen that appears, create a new project and add some users who can access
    it.

Or you can install NarraFirma from the WordPress plugins directory:

 1. In your WordPress installation, click “Plugins.”
 2. Click “Add New.”
 3. In the search box, type “narrafirma”.
 4. When NarraFirma appears, click “Install.”
 5. Click “Activate.”
 6. You should see a new “NarraFirma” menu item in your dashboard menu. Click it.
 7. In the screen that appears, create a new project and add some users who can access
    it.

## FAQ

### Where can I found out more about participatory narrative inquiry?

Take a look at the book behind NarraFirma, [Working with Stories in Your Community Or Organization: Participatory Narrative Inquiry](http://www.workingwithstories.org)

### What should I do if I find a bug?

Tell us about it on the [GitHub issues list](https://github.com/pdfernhout/narrafirma/issues).

### What about web security?

We strongly suggest that you set up any web site on which you intend to install 
NarraFirma with SSL (secure sockets). Your hosting provider should be able to help
you do that.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“NarraFirma” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ cfkurtz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfkurtz/)
 *   [ Paul Fernhout ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pdfernhout/)

[Translate “NarraFirma” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/narrafirma)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/narrafirma/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/narrafirma/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/narrafirma/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/narrafirma/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.6.11

Added: On “Configure catalysis report” page, added options to hide story-count labels
on bar graphs and histograms as well as on contingency tables
 Added: On “Review
graphs” page, story-count labels are now hidden by default (but there is a new checkbox
to show them) Changed: Stopped capitalizing graph titles (if you like them, check
the blog for how to get them back) Changed: Bolded axis name labels Changed: Changed“
Count” on bar graphs to “Number of stories” Changed: In histogram and scatterplot
sets, moved set answer names (e.g., Feel: happy) to above graphs Changed: Added 
fine gray lines around sub-graphs Changed: Increased sizes of all fonts on all graphs
Changed: On “Configure catalysis report” page, changed “tables” label to “contingency
tables” Changed: Increased default graph width to 900 pixels (because most laptops
have better screen resolutions than they did 10 years ago) Fixed: Bug with shrunken
fonts in exported PNG graphs Fixed: Bug where some graphs erroneously showed useless(
and wrong) “n: 0” statistics message

#### 1.6.10

Added: On “Describe participant groups” page, questions to build a win-win proposal
for each participant group.
 Added: Debug page (in Project administration) that 
shows all project data (for easier problem solving). Added: On “Translate story 
forms” page, additional operations (in “Do it” list) to rename or remove a language,
systematically replacing or removing all related translations. Changed: On “Translate
story forms” page, improved counts of translated texts to include “hidden” translations(
for languages that no longer appear in the “Additional languages” box). Changed:
On “Start story collection” page, improved descriptions of data conflicts (seen 
after clicking “Check for Data Conflicts”). Changed: Improved error message shown
in console when question included in story form does not exist in project. Changed:
On “Build story forms” page, added “NOT FOUND in project” to question-choice listbox
to alert user when included question does not exist in project (because it has been
renamed or removed). Changed: Updated text on Node.js site administration page. 
Fixed: Bug (in WordPress version) in which choice questions with numerical answers
caused mismatches between PHP and Javascript data formats (sorting algorithms have
now been improved). Fixed: Stopped trying to save to clipboard without checking 
that the context is secure (clipboard access is not allowed when page context is
insecure). Fixed: In WordPress version, added some missing PHP return statements
in certain error conditions, which could have (theoretically) caused problems. Fixed:
Confusing error message when granting anonymous survey access without first having
created an anonymous user id. Fixed: Improved handling of situation in which question
is null or missing during survey display and story collection.

#### 1.6.9

Changed: Updated WordPress readme file to comply with WordPress requirements.

#### 1.6.8

Changed: On the “Describe participant groups” page, added a notes field to each 
question category (about each group’s status, ability, expectations, and feelings).

#### 1.6.7

Changed: Made “Does not apply” slider label settable and translateable in general(
not only for specific questions)

#### 1.6.6

Added: You can now use display lumping to rename a too-long answer or put aside 
an answer that was rarely chosen (use with care and respect)
 Added: In display 
lumping, you can comment out a line by placing a semicolon at the beginning of it(
helps with trying different schemes) Added: On the “Print story cards” page, you
can now hide non-selected choice-question answers (instead of showing all answers)
Added: On the “Print story cards” page, you can enter a custom text to write between
choice-question answers Added: Printed story cards now have a pound/hashtag sign
in front of the story number/index (to make it easier to search for a story by number)
Added: On the “Write annotation questions” page, you can now set the order of questions
on the “Annotate stories” page (you can also add headers and choose which columns
to display in the table of stories) Added: On the “Explore patterns” page, added
a button to export a (simplified) summary of significant correlations across all
choice-question subsets (helps in pattern discovery) Added: More template questions
about participants

Changed: The “Spot-check graphs” page is now called the “Review graphs” page (and
the introduction has been tweaked)
 Changed: The main-page display of story collections
is (hopefully) more intuitive (clicking on the number of stories now leads to the“
Review incoming stories” page, and clicking on the number of answers now leads to
the “Review graphs” page) Changed: On the “Explore patterns” page, the export buttons
have been moved to the top of the page (before they got in the way of writing observations)
Changed: The threshold for drawing extra-tall contingency charts has been reduced
from 11+ to 8+ rows (for better clarity) Changed: Improved formatting of printed
session agendas (collection, sensemaking) and project presentation outline Changed:
Slightly improved wording of some of the page descriptions on section pages

Fixed: A bug where the “anything else?” label was forgotten when adding the story
form translation system
 Fixed: A bug where the statistics information reported (
in patterns table) was incorrect (in some relatively rare) situations) Fixed: A 
bug on section pages (Planning, Collection, etc) where HTML elements from other 
pages were appearing on top of the little page-type icons Fixed: A bug on the “Spot
check graphs” (now “Review graphs”) page where making a selection in one subgraph
did not remove a previous selection in another subgraph Fixed: A bug on the “Annotate
stories” page where adding the first answer to a choice question also added an empty-
string answer Fixed: A bug where clicking on the number of stories in a collection
on the main/dashboard page did not bring up that collection on the “Review graphs”
page Fixed: A bug where certain carriage-return characters within stories would 
cause the CSV export to misalign spreadsheet cells Fixed: A bug where, in CSV story
import, there was no backup default for a missing multi-choice single-column delimiter(
it now defaults to a comma)

#### 1.6.5

Fixed: Bug where code to update legacy data with missing remarkable flags was setting
extra flags as well (only affected projects created before v1.4.0)
 Fixed: Added
explanation of circle colors in clustering during catalysis

#### 1.6.4

Added: Catalysis option to hide patterns that don’t include at least one question
asked about stories
 Changed: Clarified a few things on the Project admin / Import&
Export page Fixed: Bug in WordPress version where resetting a project more than 
once would produce an error Fixed: Bug where a forward slash in a question’s short
name would cause the data collected for that question to be invisible (now slashes
are not allowed) Fixed: Bug where story cards html page had title with long messy
id instead of short name Fixed: Bug in csv import that would cause an error (in 
NF, not in the console) if a data column name was not described in the story form
file Fixed: Bug in csv import where slider with non-default “does not apply” label
was being read incorrectly

#### 1.6.3

Added: Buttons to export all graphs and statistics displayed on “Explore patterns”
page (without regard to observations)
 Fixed: Bug that was slowing down display 
of graphs on “Explore patterns” page Fixed: Bug where more than one forward slash
in a question or answer name created spurious subfolders in zipped images

#### 1.6.2

Added: Option when printing catalysis reports to save observations and interpretations
to simple CSV file
 Added: Texts below graphs explaining that you can click and 
drag in the graph to select stories (this is not obvious) Added: On “Explore patterns”
page, new “things you can do” option to show survey questions for selected pattern
Fixed: Bug where you might have seen a “pattern is null” message on the “Explore
patterns” page Fixed: Bug where not enough space was being allocated to upper-right
labels in table (contingency chart) images

#### 1.6.1

Fixed: Bug (introduced in last update) that made it impossible to create the first
story collection in a project
 Fixed: Several bugs related to multi-user data conflicts
Fixed: Bug where leading/trailing white-space characters were allowed in fixed-answer
lists, but display lumping and filtering systems assumed none

#### 1.6.0

Added: Duplicate button to make copies of most items in lists
 Added: Data conflict
check when updating “snapshot” story form in story collection (to avoid confusion
and data loss) Added: More buttons providing quick access to relevant help pages
Added: On “Spot-check graphs” page, ability to show stories from multiple collections
at once Added: Copy-to-clipboard button on all popup text dialogs Added: Option 
to print story cards in multiple columns Changed: Removed annoying “Please click
the close button” popup (by improving data-entry validation system) Changed: Made“
Start story collection” page easier to use and understand Changed: Improved help
on updating “snaphot” story forms in existing collections Fixed: Made survey text
question responsive to screen size (multiplying specified percent width by 4x on
mobile, 3x on tablets, 2x on laptops) Fixed: Bug where special character in survey
URL caused link on “Start story collection” page to not work Fixed: Bug where radio-
button or boolean answer showed only on last story entered on form (though data 
was correctly stored)

#### 1.5.24

Fixed: Bug where stories appeared out of order in survey form.

#### 1.5.23

Fixed: Bug I thought I had fixed long ago, in the “chooser” boxes where you add 
questions to a story form. Showing the question texts broke the associations. Removed
them.

#### 1.5.22

Fixed: I forgot to save one file (package.json) with the new version number in the
previous release. That’s all.

#### 1.5.21

Added: Import option for multi-choice delimited questions with write-in answers 
in the same column.
 Added: On “Write questions about stories/participants” pages,
when import options are showing, button to directly access import guide. Added: 
On “Start story collection” page, button to directly access help on what can be 
changed in a story form linked to a non-empty story collection. Changed: Improved
import guide and help on updating story forms.

#### 1.5.20

Added: Spot-check graphs page now has buttons to show selected stories (or random
sample) in pop-up window for copying and pasting elsewhere.
 Added: Spot-check graphs
page can now show answers to questions about stories (in a simple format) for copying
and pasting elsewhere. Added: Additional warnings to alert the user of read-only
mode, in case they edit fields without realizing they are not logged in to an account
with editing privileges.

#### 1.5.19

Added: Icons that show the actitivies on each page (manage, plan, enter, review,
journal, export). Can be turned off in project options.
 Added: Tips at the bottom
of the screen. Can be turned off in project options. Added: Page (in Planning) to
help you observe and reflect on a story-sharing conversation. Added: Page (in Planning)
to help you build and print a project privacy policy. Added: Journaling pages for
reflections at the end of each project phase. Added: In Planning, added a few more
questions about participant groups (these new questions are not linked to the recommendations
system). Fixed: Bug where a question type was being erroneously required for elicitation
questions. (It exists there but is not important.)

#### 1.5.18

Added: Validation check to make sure that all questions have types.
 Added: Validation
check to make sure that questions of types that require answer lists (select, radiobuttons,
checkboxes) have answer lists. Added: For validation support, if you are editing
a list item and you click a page-change button, a message will appear asking you
to close the currently open item first. (NF needs you to do this so it can run its
validation checks.) Added: Global error pop-up that shows the same message as is
posted to the development console (for those who don’t know about or can’t find 
the development console). Changed: Improved error reporting when questions that 
should have but are missing answer lists are imported from CSV. Changed: Improved
error message in survey itself when a question that requires an answer list has 
no answer list. Changed: NF’s HTML cleanup process has always interpreted a single
angle bracket (<) as the start of an HTML tag (and showed an error if there is no
closing bracket). This is a problem for texts like “<25” (an age bracket). Now NF
just prints out the < and lets you figure out if it’s an incomplete HTML tag.

#### 1.5.17

Fixed: Broken link on several help pages.

#### 1.5.16

Added: Icons for (nearly) every button.
 Changed: Simplified header at top of all
pages. Changed: Simplified and reorganized all section pages (Planning, Collection,
etc). Changed: Removed View and Edit buttons under all “GridWithItemPanel” list 
tables. Now all items in lists can be edited live, without separate view-only step.
Changed: Renamed “Design, generate, or import story forms” page to “Build story 
forms.” Changed: When editing story forms, can now see question texts as well as
short names. Changed: Improved validation of short-name fields in questions (eliciting,
about stories, about participants, annotation), story forms, story collections, 
and catalysis reports. Fixed: Bug where activity lists in printed agendas for story-
collecting sessions and sensemaking sessions were not properly sorted. Fixed: Error
where survey introduction text did not wrap correctly.

#### 1.5.15

Changed: Dealt more gracefully with situation in which multi-choice question (checkboxes)
was changed to single-choice question (select) after data was collected. Was choking
on wrong data type during story export.

#### 1.5.14

Fixed: Bug in printing story cards where story-form question-answers were not appearing.

#### 1.5.13

Fixed: Bug where choose-questions-for-story-form widget was not matching up questions
correctly if question short names had extra (leading or trailing) blank spaces. (
Now any extra blank spaces are trimmed off.)
 Fixed: Bug where extra (empty) lines
in choice-question available-answers lists were creating malformed survey HTML, 
causing the error “Something went wrong loading the survey questionnaire from the
server.” (Blank lines are now being trimmed out correctly.)

#### 1.5.12

Fixed: Bug where the texts of edited stories did not appear correctly in the “Show
story texts for copying” popup window on the “Explore Patterns” page.
 Fixed: Bug
where annotations might not match existing stories correctly during import and bulk
changes.

#### 1.5.11

Fixed: Improved error handling for empty (no-name) questions. Was choking on them
during export.

#### 1.5.10

Fixed: Bug where write-in answers were missing from the display of submitted stories
and answers (which survey-takers can use to save a local copy of what they said).

#### 1.5.9

Added: Brief introductory text (with link to WWS book) to home page
 Added: Section
links to home page (on right, below story collections table, for better accessibility)
Changed: Moved page descriptions from popup tooltips to texts below page links; 
shown by default but can be turned off in project admin options Changed: Improved
page descriptions to explain what each page is for and why you would want to use
it Changed: Section pages (Planning, Collection, etc) now start with graphical icons
that echo the home-page diagram (better continuity) Changed: Hid upper-right page
navigation buttons (previous, next) in situations in which they had been disabled(
gray) Changed: Made all links have a highlighted box when hovered over (for better
accessibility) Changed: Consolidated all color designations in main CSS file into
CSS vars (to make it easier to tweak colors) Changed: Tweaked some colors to make
interface a bit calmer Changed: Removed hard-coded copy of CSS definitions for SVG-
PNG conversion (now read directly from DOM); should reduce errors while changing
CSS Changed: Default font from “Arial, Helvetica” to “Helvetica, Arial” (looks better?)
Fixed: “Explore patterns” page now handles legacy case where observation exists 
but “remarkable” flag is not set Fixed: Bug where version number was not updated
in place that makes correct version appear on Project admininstration page

#### 1.5.8

Added: Bulk annotation import from CSV file
 Fixed: Bug where question links to 
new story form were not being correctly created (causing it to be impossible to 
add questions to form) Fixed: Formatting mistakes in help system

#### 1.5.7

Changed: In Node.js version, added logout link to choose-project page
 Fixed: Bug(
in WordPress version only) where setting and then deleting read-access permission
role/id would allow anonymous read permission

#### 1.5.6

Changed: Added “start here” label to home-page diagram, so beginners have a hint
at what to click on first
 Changed: Revamped help system to (a) clarify interactions
between pages and (b) add previous-next links between help pages Changed: In story
cards, added bold tags so word processors will show selected answers even if style
information is lost Changed: While looking at stories in “Review incoming stories”
can now see raw JSON story data Fixed: Bug where survey could refuse to save story
because it seemed to have no name (though it did) Fixed: Bug where question name
with leading or trailing space did not match choice made in story form (now extra
spaces are trimmed out) Fixed: Bug where “Active on web?” column on “Start story
collection” page showed “checked” for all story collections (instead of yes or no)
Fixed: Bug where instructions on “Create project story elements” page were out of
synch with changed clustering-diagram interface

#### 1.5.5

Fixed: Critical bug in WordPress PHP code that could cause new NarraFirma installations
to show a blank screen instead of the setup page

#### 1.5.4

Fixed: Small bug in display lumping code that could cause a lumped count to be off
when somebody chose and then un-chose an answer

#### 1.5.3

Added: Option to set custom graph height as well as width

#### 1.5.2

Changed: Improved usability of clustering interface (used in planning and catalysis)

Fixed: Improved error message when JSON was expected but HTML was received (the 
HTML could be an error message; now it is shown) Fixed: Small (probably invisible)
bug where id for write-in fields was not given story id prefix

#### 1.5.1

Fixed: Bug where catalysis report graphs did not print (list comparison was set 
backwards, sorry)

#### 1.5.0

Added (survey): Multi-lingual surveys (partipant can choose language; choice is 
saved for graphing)
 Added (survey): Option to embed introductory video (streaming
or mp4) Added (survey): Story collection date question (generated or imported) Added(
survey): For all question types, option to allow write-in answer (for “other” answers
or follow-up questions) Added (survey): For “select” question type, option to show
full list box instead of drop-down list Added (survey): For “select” question type,
option to set no-choice text (e.g., “– select –“) Added (survey): For “boolean” 
question type, option to set yes/no texts Added (survey): For “text” question type,
option to set width of textbox (in percentage units) Added (survey): For “radio 
buttons” and “check boxes” question types, option to include image links to show
below answers

Added (catalysis): Ability to change annotation questions while answering them (
to build answer lists that emerge from reading stories)
 Added (catalysis): Templates
for annotation questions Added (catalysis, sensemaking): Real-time display lumping(
merging of similar answers) in catalysis graphs and statistics Added (catalysis,
sensemaking): Ability to filter stories by story length Added (catalysis, sensemaking):
Ability to filter stories by searching for specific pieces of text

Added (usability): Option to set project nickname, which shows on pages and reports
within project
 Added (usability): Buttons to hide or show advanced and import options
for questions, story forms, observations Added (usability): Improved text-box widths
throughout the pages, so shorter texts have shorter text boxes Added (usability):
Better explanation/labeling of cluster order in catalysis clustering Added (usability):
Ability to “archive” (hide) WordPress projects

Changed (catalysis): Moved annotation facility from collection to catalysis; improved
annotation process
 Changed (usability): Added “choosers” to improve process of 
adding questions to story forms and changing question order Changed (usability):
Shortened length of text boxes for shorter entry fields (e.g., names, labels) Changed(
usability): Reduced number of entry fields that appear in situations where they 
don’t apply Changed (usability): Application now checks that your question short
name is unique (instead of asking you to check it yourself) Changed (usability):
Navigation buttons now say “Previous page” and “Next page” (to make it more clear
that you are going to a page, not doing something) Changed (usability): Revamped
WordPress launch/options page Changed (stability): Changed almost all “var” variables
to “const” or “let” variables

Fixed (catalysis): Bug where missing custom graph size for catalysis report could
result in printed graphs with zero height
 Fixed (catalysis): Bug where no-answer
answers for boolean and checkbox questions were being graphed as no or false instead
of no-answer Fixed (sensemaking): Bug where generated questions (e.g., Eliciting
question) still appeared in story cards when their check boxes were unchecked Fixed(
sensemaking): Bug where story filter with && combination did not work when printing
story cards Fixed (usability): Issue where last few lines of home-page right-side
links could pop over to bottom left Fixed (usability): Many small CSS element spacing
awkwardnesses Fixed (stability): Bug where application did not load under WordPress
when installed on Bedrock server Fixed (stability): Updated Mann-Whitney U test 
for two improvements in scipy code from which it was derived

To read about previous changes, see the NarraFirma blog.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.6.11**
 *  Last updated **8 months ago**
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 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
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