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Clarify relationship between survey expiration and survey status

  • Apr 22, 2023 2:13 PM UTC
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Hi,

I’d like to setup a survey so that it automatically closes at a certain date.  The survey effectively acquiring the “closed” status is important because I’ve set up a Qualtrics workflow making a web request to an external API upon survey close.

In the survey options, I’ve set the Survey Availability to a certain (now in the past) date. Navigating to the Survey link, I can see that the survey is effectively expired.  However, the Survey is still listed as “Active” in my account Dashboard - I would expect it to be “Closed”. I am missing something here?

 

Thanks in advance

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Shashi
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  • Apr 22, 2023 2:28 PM UTC

We can manually close the survey by following the steps here.


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  • Apr 22, 2023 2:53 PM UTC

Thanks @Shashi  . However I’d be more interested for a way of closing a survey automatically - if there even exist one.


Shashi
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  • Apr 22, 2023 3:23 PM UTC

Thanks @Shashi  . However I’d be more interested for a way of closing a survey automatically - if there even exist one.

To automate we can create a workflow task with ‘Started as a specific time’ as trigger event and then use this API in web service task to close the survey.


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  • Apr 24, 2023 8:22 AM UTC

You can also set survey expiration in survey setting in advance. 


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  • Apr 24, 2023 9:03 AM UTC

You can set an expiration date as shown in below image: