Coding stripes

Coding stripes are colored bars that show you the codes that code the content you are viewing.

You can hover over a coding stripe to see more information or right-click on a stripe to:

• Highlight coding for the code that the stripe represents (content is highlighted in yellow)
• Open the code in Detail View
• Uncode all content coded to the code (only content in the file or code you are working with is uncoded)

You cannot display coding stripes when a file is in edit mode.

Click the Undock icon (in the top right of the Detail View) to open the file in the Detail View into its own window, making more space to work. See Customize the workspace

Show coding stripes

1. Open the file, code, case or memo in the Detail View.
2. In the View menu, select Coding Stripes and then choose an option.
   • All—show coding stripes for all the theme, case and relationship codes that code the content.
   • Most Coding or Least Coding—showing the codes that most or least code the content can help you to see the dominant themes in your files.
   • Recently Coded—see the coding you have just done. This is one way to check that you coded the content to the correct code.
   • Selected Items—these could be codes, cases, relationship codes
   • Coding Density Only—this might help you save space.

Check coding density

The Coding Density bar is displayed to the left of the colored coding stripes.

You can hover over the Coding Density bar to see the codes that code the related content. The color graduations indicate the coding density: light gray (minimal coding) to dark gray (maximum coding). The coding density is calculated based on all codes that code the content—not just those that are currently displayed in the coding stripes.

Change the color scheme for your coding stripes

When you display coding stripes, you can choose either automatic (show random system-generated colors) or item colors (show colors you have assigned to users or codes).

Print coding stripes

You can print a file or code along with its coding stripes, when the file is open in Detail View with coding stripes displayed.

When you print documents, memos, externals or print the Reference view of a code, coding stripes are printed on the same page as the file or code content—the file or code content is scaled and rotated to allow space on the page for the coding stripes. If you have a large number of stripes displayed, NVivo may not be able to fit them all on the page.