Does updating and redeploying a survey project during an ongoing data collection affect the dataset?

Hi @RayRay,

Welcome to the community! Kindly please be informed that it’s possible to update a survey project (adding or removing a variable as required) during an ongoing survey. But there are certain things that should be kept in mind (which has been discussed in one of the previous post earlier):

It should also be helpful if you go through this support article Recovering data from previous form versions.

Have a great day!