createQualificationType - Amazon Mechanical Turk
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createQualificationType

Description

The createQualificationType command creates a Qualification that can be used for your HITs. You can use the arguments to specify files that contain the Qualification test and the answers for the test. You can also create a Qualification that does not require a test. For more information about Qualifications, see the Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Guide.

Arguments

The following table describes the arguments for the createQualificationType command.

Name Description Required

-answer [filename]

Specifies the file that contains the answers for the Qualification test. If this argument is omitted, you create a Qualification that does not require a test. For information about this file, see The Qualification answer file in Files Used by the Command Line Tools.

Example: -answer qualification.answers

No

-help or -h

Displays the help for this operation.

Example: -help

No

-noretry

Specifies that Workers can only request the Qualification once.

Example: -noretry

No

-properties [filename]

Specifies the Qualification properties file. For information about this file, see The Qualification properties file in Files Used by the Command Line Tools.

Example: -properties qualification.properties

Yes

-question [filename]

Specifies the Qualification question file that contains the Qualification test. For information about this file, see The Qualification question file in Files Used by the Command Line Tools.

Example:-question qualification.question

No

-sandbox

Runs this command in the Amazon Mechanical Turk sandbox for testing. This argument takes precedence even if you specify the production web site in your mturk.properties file.

Example:-sandbox

No

Example

The following examples for Unix and Windows show how to use the createQualificationType command. The examples use the property file qualification.properties and the question file qualification.question. These examples create the qualification in the test environment.

Unix

The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Unix. 


.createQualificationType.sh -properties qualification.properties -question qualification.question -noretry -sandbox

Windows

The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Microsoft Windows. 


createQualificationType -properties qualification.properties -question qualification.question -noretry -sandbox

Output

If this command completes successfully, it creates a .success file with the name specified in the -properties argument. For this example, the file is named qualification.properties.success. This file contains the Qualification Type ID of the newly created Qualification. This command also produces output similar to the following.


Created qualification type: KYJ4GZZ5G3M6TDCEWYF0
You can take the test here: 
http://workersandbox.mturk.com/mturk/requestqualification?qualificationId=KYJ4GZZ5G3M6TDCEWYF0

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