Decipher Dichotomous Variables Writeback - Naming Convention

Introduction

When writing data back to Decipher using the “Dichotomous Variables” writeback type, multiple questions containing a separate binary value (i.e. column) for each code in the codeframe are created.
The "Dichotomous Variables" approach is fairly simple to understand but leads to a lot of columns.
Some users might prefer the "Expanded Variables" approach to reduce the number of columns: https://dtax.helpsite.com/articles/66221-decipher-expanded-variables-writeback-naming-convention

When Codeit creates these questions in Decipher, it follows a specific naming convention.
This page explains this naming convention.

Naming Convention

In short, the naming convention follows this pattern for each question iteration and code:
 
 <Target Variable Name>[_lVerbatim Level + 1] [_oVerbatim Ordinal + 1] + [Code Number]

To help understand what that means, let’s look at an example.

Simple Example
Suppose we have a set of verbatim data as follows:

And the following codeframe:

Suppose we code Q1 into a target variable called Q1_coded
If we just apply just one code to each verbatim then the naming of our output questions/columns in Decipher is straightforward:

Multi-response Example
In addition to multi coding, we sometimes need to handle multi-response verbatims.
For example, suppose Q1 contains brand mentions where the respondent mentions up to 3 brand names, like so:

And the codeframe:

Since each respondent can give multiple answers to Q1, we again need a way of labelling the multiple outputs. Following the naming convention above, we would label the questions written to Decipher as follows: