Publishing and survey status

Publishing turns a draft into a live survey with a shareable link.

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Publishing

Select Share → Publish. Before it publishes, Lensym checks the survey and lists anything blocking it — an incomplete rule, a broken pipe, or a feature your plan does not include. Fix those and the button enables. Select Publish, then confirm Publish Survey?.

You get a link like survey.lensym.com/SV_XXXXXXX, and a QR code you can download as a PNG for print.

Survey statuses

Status	Accepting responses	Editable
Draft	No	Yes
Published	Yes	No
Paused	No	No
Archived	No	No
Completed (existing surveys)	No	No

Some existing surveys have a Completed status. It is read-only; use the available archive and restore actions if you need to return one to a draft.

Changing a live survey

Pausing stops new responses and keeps the same link, so you can resume later and every link and QR code you have handed out still works. Use it to take a survey offline temporarily.

To change the questions you have to archive the survey and restore it to a draft. Archiving permanently retires the link: re-publishing creates a new one, and the old link stays dead.

Your responses are never deleted by any of this — they stay available in analytics.

When collection stops

A published survey stops accepting responses when you pause or archive it, or when your account reaches its monthly response limit. Respondents see a short "this survey is closed" page.