Submission Deadline

[sigman]

How do you put a start and end dates on the submission of data collection?

[hanadi]

Was this ever answered? It’s really interesting. I would like to know the answer to this too.

Unless you want to add a date field and introduce skip logic there.

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @sigman, @hanadi,

Seems like you wish to have a date constraints for collecting data for your survey. If this is the case, please see an example shared in the post discussed earlier:

Restricting a date variable using month-year on XLS

Please be aware, the month-year appearance on a date question only affects how the date is displayed, it does not change the fact that a full date is still being stored. Specifically “2019-06” will get stored as 2019-06-01. This is especially important if you then use these in any comparison calculation. For example, if you want to check if a date is between Dec 2018 (ie >= 2018-12-01) and January 2019, you’d actually probably want to check against February 2019 (ie < 2019-02-01), since Januar…

[stephanealoo]

In addition please note that you can also simply archive your data collection project which prevent it from collecting any further data.

Also note when restricting as suggested by @Kal_Lam and @Xiphware ensure that you hide the date and time questions so that no one can change their values. Remember if they change their system time and date, they may still collect the data though

Regards
Stephane