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Alternatively, when trying to deactivate the survey (by clicking on the "stop this survey" button), an option to expire the survey is provided, which performs the same function: | Alternatively, when trying to deactivate the survey (by clicking on the "stop this survey" button), an option to expire the survey is provided, which performs the same function: | ||
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Once loaded, click on the '''Deactivate survey button''': | Once loaded, click on the '''Deactivate survey button''': | ||
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*All results are lost (you cannot access them via the LimeSurvey user interface) | *All results are lost (you cannot access them via the LimeSurvey user interface) | ||
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Currently, LimeSurvey detects and handles the following changes: | Currently, LimeSurvey detects and handles the following changes: | ||
*Question is moved to another group (result is imported correctly). | *Question is moved to another group (result is imported correctly). |
Revision as of 14:35, 4 January 2019
General
To stop a survey, you can either "expire" or "deactivate" it.
Expiry
You can manually expire the survey if you edit the survey details and set an "Expiry date/time":
Alternatively, when trying to deactivate the survey (by clicking on the "stop this survey" button), an option to expire the survey is provided, which performs the same function:
If you decide to expiry your survey:
- No results are lost
- No respondent information is lost
- Change of questions, groups, and parameters is limited
- An expired survey is not accessible to participant (they only see a message that the survey has expired)
- It's possible to perform statistics on responses inside LimeSurvey
To make the survey available to your participants again, change or remove the expiration date from the publication & access panel.
Deactivation
Click on "Stop this survey" button located on the top toolbar:
Once loaded, click on the Deactivate survey button:
- All results are lost (you cannot access them via the LimeSurvey user interface)
- All respondent information is lost
- The deactivated survey is not accessible to the respondent (a message will be displayed stating that you are not permitted to see this survey)
- All questions, groups, and parameters are editable again
- It is recommended to export your responses before using this option
Help! I accidentally deactivated my survey - what now?
If you closed your survey accidentally, it is important that you don't change anything in your survey. To recover your data:
- Activate your survey again
- Select Responses from the survey toolbar.
- Click on Import and select the "Import answers from a deactivated survey table" menu entry.
- Choose your source table.
- Click on the "Import" button located on the upper-right part of the screen.
Currently, LimeSurvey detects and handles the following changes:
- Question is moved to another group (result is imported correctly).
- Question is removed from target (result is ignored).
- Question is added to target (result is set to database default value).