I want to have a survey be accessible, but not submittable, until a certain date. Is this possible?

As far as I know, not possible.

Darn, thanks for the response!

I was half hoping that someone would at least have some sort of convoluted javascript solution

So you want people to be able to fill the survey but not submit it? If yes, you can disable the submit until date is passed with some alert about that you cannot submit yet, with JS, if this is the case I can provide it for you later.

Deusdeorum wrote: So you want people to be able to fill the survey but not submit it? If yes, you can disable the submit until date is passed with some alert about that you cannot submit yet, with JS, if this is the case I can provide it for you later.

That would work perfectly, thank you!

I think of another solution, without javascript

Short text question type / hidden (or not if you ask something at end).
Validation equation at : date("YMD")>"20170601"

No js included / no way to submit with hack.

This isn't working, I'm still able to submit the survey:



What am I doing wrong?

The question CAN not be hidden ... sorry : you must use hidden in CSS class, not the 'hide this question' attribute.

DenisChenu´s answer is probably a better approach but here's a javascript solution that disables button on click with an alert.

Once I figured out that the question should be on the last page, and not the first, it's working splendidly. Since there's no question to add the "This question is mandatory" warning, the popup might be a little confusing. I could add a text Q at the bottom stating that attempting to submit prior to X date will result in an error.

Semi-related, is it possible to perform "date math"...specifically, something like {EXPIRY-3} (which would show the date 3 days prior to the survey's expiration)?

sorry for the duplicate post, didn't realize I couldn't delete my own
MOD: feel free to delete, thanks!

Deusdeorum wrote: DenisChenu´s answer is probably a better approach but here's a javascript solution that disables button on click with an alert.

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  $(document).ready(function() {
 
      var date_now = new Date();
      var sub_date = new Date("2017-1-10");
 
      if (date_now < sub_date) {
          $('#movesubmitbtn').click(function() {
              $(this).prop('disabled', true);
              alert("You cannot submit this survey until" + sub_date);
          });
      }
  });
</script>

That's awesome, thanks! I combined it with {EXPIRY} and a little date math so now it won't be submittable until X days before expiration.

Darren wrote: Once I figured out that the question should be on the last page, and not the first, it's working splendidly. Since there's no question to add the "This question is mandatory" warning, the popup might be a little confusing. I could add a text Q at the bottom stating that attempting to submit prior to X date will result in an error.

Semi-related, is it possible to perform "date math"...specifically, something like {EXPIRY-3} (which would show the date 3 days prior to the survey's expiration)?

Quoting myself because I realize I wasn't clear on this - I'd like to use date math on the relevance equation. This way I can have a "warning" message at the bottom when the survey is unsubmittable, and direct the user to click "Resume later". Thanks again!

Darren wrote:

Deusdeorum wrote: DenisChenu´s answer is probably a better approach but here's a javascript solution that disables button on click with an alert.

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  $(document).ready(function() {
 
      var date_now = new Date();
      var sub_date = new Date("2017-1-10");
 
      if (date_now < sub_date) {
          $('#movesubmitbtn').click(function() {
              $(this).prop('disabled', true);
              alert("You cannot submit this survey until" + sub_date);
          });
      }
  });
</script>

That's awesome, thanks! I combined it with {EXPIRY} and a little date math so now it won't be submittable until X days before expiration.

Please carefully test this before using it in production because I haven't.

Deusdeorum wrote:
Please carefully test this before using it in production because I haven't.

So far the only problem I've found is that it doesn't seem to work on mobile (iPad/iPhone). It seems to bypass the JS and gives the standard "One or more questions have not been answered in a valid manner. You cannot proceed until these answers are valid." I've search the forum for javascript on mobile, but haven't found anything other than a question of whether JS can be disabled completely. Is there a trick that I'm missing?