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June 2025 (NVivo 15.2.0)

Feature

Description

AI Assistant: Summarize

AI Assistant: Summarize option now supports summarization of cases.

Usability and User Interface Improvements

  • Enhanced the welcome screen by making the options more accessible and adding a new button to open projects from disk. Additionally, improved the application behavior so that the welcome screen is displayed when all NVivo projects are closed and when the NVivo icon is clicked from the dock.

  • Updated the top ribbon so that options like AI Assistant is made more visible in the default window size.

  • Minor user interface localization improvements.

General

Fixes included in this release:

  • Fixed collaboration cloud project upload and upload canceling issues.

  • Resolved an issue where the minimized Navigation View is automatically expanded when coding.

  • The display of the “Coded to …” notification shown in the Navigation View.

  • Word Cloud layout button is now available.

  • Word Tree diagram is now correctly displayed.

  • Resolved text alignment issue in 'Delete Items' dialog.

April 2025 (NVivo 15.1.3)

Feature

Description

AI Assistant

Improvements to AI functionality as part of ongoing maintenance support. Please update to this version to ensure seamless operation of AI Assistant.

April 2025 (NVivo 15.1.2)

Feature

Description

Licensing

Improved workflows for on-premise enterprise license provisioning and activation.

Collaboration Cloud with NVivo 15

Manage Team dialog has been improved so that Project owners can add collaborators by entering their email address.

January 2025 (NVivo 15.1.0)

Feature

Description

License management

Improved workflows for license provisioning and activation.

AI Assistant

Resolved crashing issues with AI summary language selection.

Users can now navigate through the entries in the Summarize and Suggest Child code dialog using the UP and DOWN ARROW keys on the keyboard.

AI Assistant: Summarize

AI Assistant: Summarize option, previously called AI Assistant: Summarize Document(s), now supports summarization of codes.

Installation

Resolved command line installation issues when using NVivo 14 Subscription license key to install NVivo 15.

Collaboration Cloud with NVivo 15

Resolved issues with cloning projects, delete access for collaborators, and code handling.

Datasets

Resolved dataset import issues.

October 2024 (NVivo 15.0.1)

Feature

Description

AI Assistant: Summarize Text

Added support to allow users to edit the AI suggested summaries before saving them as Annotations.

AI Assistant: Suggest Child Codes

  • Added support for Child code suggestions for codes in datasets.

  • The "Created by" column in the list view displays NVivo AI user to indicate the AI generated child codes.

  • Resolved issues with context menu.

AI Assistant: Summarize

  • Added support to allow users to edit the AI suggested summaries before saving them as memos.

  • Added support to handle long documents.

  • Improvements to summary generation and document selection processes.

  • Resolved context menu issues for files selected from the File classification option.

Collaboration Cloud with NVivo 15

  • Improvements to Collaboration Cloud Windows and Mac data synchronization.

  • Fixed issues with opening the cloud project on Mac that was uploaded from a Windows machine.

General

Aside from user interface localization improvements, the following issues were fixed:

  • Issues with displaying Highlights (coded content) in files.

  • Crashing issues when opening a specific dataset file from the sample project.

  • Issues with editing memos and appending new memos to the existing memos.

  • Resolved preview screen issue in Import Dataset Assistant.

NVivo 15.0.0

Feature

Description

AI Assistant

AI Assistant is a generative artificial intelligent tool that is embedded within NVivo to enhance your data analysis. Using AI assistant, you can leverage coding suggestions and summarize texts or documents.