Previewing Surveys
In this article
- All about previewing.
- Previewing Drafts (or Unpublished) surveys.
- Previewing a Published survey.
- Changing your survey's branding as you preview.
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 |
Previewing Drafts (or Unpublished) surveys
Preview, then return to your editing page and change anything you don't like in your Drafts or 'Unpublished' surveys section — which are also identified by a tag on their survey cards.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:
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Click My surveys → then click open the Drafts tab
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- Select any Unpublished survey card
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- Locate the Preview button near the top of the editing page
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To preview:
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- Click the Preview button → as marked as #3 above
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Take the survey as if you are a participant → by selecting responses and tapping the Next and Previous buttons
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- Flip through the questions → using the forward and backward arrows
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- Click the mobile preview icon located at the bottom of the page
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- 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:
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- Click on the survey's card from the Published section of the Surveys index
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- Click the Edit survey button on the 'Results' page
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- 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
Changing your survey's branding as you preview
To customize your survey's look and feel as you preview:
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- Open your survey's editing page
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Click Preview
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- Click the paintbrush icon → and change the logo, buttons, and color value
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- Save your changes
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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.