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Revision as of 14:55, 2 June 2021
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 deactivating the survey (by clicking 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).