Let's suppose I have a survey set to record partial completions 2 weeks after the respondent's last activity. Respondent 123's last activity was 10 days ago.
Suppose I then change the settings to record partials after only 1 week, and publish the change.
What happens to R_123's data? Is it recorded immediately, or in 4 days?
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What happens if I change the partial complete settings mid-field?
+2Best answer by mklubeck
Great Question.
As far as I know, all changes to the survey/form, including these, are not retroactively applied. In other words, if they've started the survey, they will live under the rules/settings/format/data that was in place when they started the survey.
I'm not 100% sure that will hold true for this specific instance though. I'll see if I can find anything on it, but I'm 85% sure.
+8Great Question.
As far as I know, all changes to the survey/form, including these, are not retroactively applied. In other words, if they've started the survey, they will live under the rules/settings/format/data that was in place when they started the survey.
I'm not 100% sure that will hold true for this specific instance though. I'll see if I can find anything on it, but I'm 85% sure.
+2That makes sense, thanks -- would be consistent with how other content changes work. I'm going to test using a dummy survey by changing the options from 24 hours to 4 hours, will post here tomorrow with the result from that.
+2Results of the test I ran: as mklubeck suspected, R_123's data will be recorded in 4 days, i.e. the setting that was in effect when they were interacting with the content will persist. Changing the setting will only affect new respondents who come in after the setting changed.
+8KevinTroy Thanks for the confirmation! I'll make a note of it in our knowledge database! It's always nice to know for sure what it will / won't do.
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