Creating and Managing Custom Dialogs

The Custom Dialog Builder allows you to create and manage custom dialogs for generating command syntax. Using the Custom Dialog Builder you can:

  • Create your own version of a dialog for a built-in IBM® SPSS® Statistics procedure. For example, you can create a dialog for the Frequencies procedure that only allows the user to select the set of variables and then generates command syntax with pre-set options that standardize the output.
  • Create a user interface that generates command syntax for an extension command. Extension commands are user-defined IBM SPSS Statistics commands that are implemented in the Python programming language, R or Java. See the topic Custom Dialogs for Extension Commands for more information.
  • Open a file containing the specification for a custom dialog--perhaps created by another user--and add the dialog to your installation of IBM SPSS Statistics, optionally making your own modifications.
  • Save the specification for a custom dialog so that other users can add it to their installations of IBM SPSS Statistics.
Figure 1. Custom Dialog Builder
The Custom Dialog Builder window showing the dialog properties

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How to Start the Custom Dialog Builder

  1. From the menus choose:

Utilities > Custom Dialogs > Custom Dialog Builder...