Previewing Surveys

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Suggested next articles: Publishing and Sending Surveys and Editing Surveys.


All about previewing

Before you publish, preview!

Previewing lets you double-check your survey before publishing and sending it to your recipients. Importantly, previewing doesn’t capture data or increase your response count — so preview all you like! 

There are other benefits too:

1 The preview is an accurate recreation of what your survey takers will experience
2 Switch smoothly between desktop and mobile views
3 Tastefully touch-up your survey's look and feel → with a click of the "paintbrush" icon

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Previewing Drafts (or Unpublished) surveys

Preview, then return to your editing page and change anything you don't like in your "Drafts" or "Unpublished" surveys section — which are also identified by a tag on their survey cards. (See Editing Surveys)

To locate the preview option:

1
Click "My surveys → then click open the "Drafts" tab
2
Select any "Unpublished" survey card
3
Locate the "Preview" button near the top of the editing page

To preview:

1
Click the "Preview" button → as marked as #3 above
2
Take the survey as if you are a participant → by selecting responses and tapping the "Next" and "Previous" buttons
3
Flip through the questions → using the "forward" and "backward" arrows
4
Click the "mobile" preview icon located at the bottom of the page
5
If you’ve included logic → test each condition
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If you've added a link to a Thank you message → test it too!
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Click "← Back to editing" and make your corrections!

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Previewing a Published survey

When you open a Published survey, you’ll be taken to your 'Results' page — so there’s an extra step required to open the Preview option. There are also limitations on what you can change if you catch a mistake — as explained in Editing Published (vs. Unpublished) surveys.

To preview a Published survey:

1
Click on the survey's card from the "Published" section of the Surveys index
2
Click the "Edit survey" button on the Results page
3
Click the "Preview" button
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Preview as explained above → in the "Unpublished" section
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Click "← Back to editing" to close the preview

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Changing your survey's branding as you preview

To customize your survey's look and feel as you preview:

1
Open your survey's editing page
2
Click "Preview"
3
Click the "paintbrush" icon → and change the logo, buttons, and color value
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Save your changes

Branding applies globally

Branding applies to all of the surveys in your account, so if you make a change to one survey, all surveys will be updated to reflect your brand-new look.

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